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The Electrical Engineering doctorate programme consist in a series of courses and focused research work supervised by a tutor, which have the finality to guide the students to develop an specific research in the area of the Electrical Engineering.
The Electrical Engineering is a technology of more than a century of age.
Although this, nowadays it is experiencing a lot of changes, basically with the introduction of Electronic and Computer Science in all of the traditional areas of the Electrical Engineering technology.
The Electrical Engineering doctorate programme comes to help to create a kind of Electrical Engineer who can front this challenges with all the tools and acknowledge required to succeed in such a job.
The programme offers postgraduate training addressed to graduates in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, with the objective of training these technicians in the tasks of research, development, modelling and simulation of electromechanical devices, systems and processes.
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the programme, a wide variety of contents are offered which afford a complete vision of all of the technologies applied, which comprise both the analysis and design of complex electromechanical systems (such as control drives, devices and systems) and the modelling and simulation of these systems, on the basis of electrical and electronic systems.
During the research period, and after finishing the 20 doctoral course credits, the student must complete at least 6 research credits, which could consist in either:
- Focused research work supervised by a tutor.
- Complementary research activities (conference contributions, journal articles, ...).
Focused research work supervised by a tutor will have an assigned number of credits in accordance with the doctorate commission.
Complementary research activities will be assigned a number of credits in accordance to the next criteria's:
a) Papers published in journals included in 'The Journal Ranked by Impact Factor within Category': 6 Credits
b) Papers published in others journals or in International congresses : 3 Credits
In order to the acceptance of thesis project, this should include:
- Identification of the doctorans, the thesis director, and tutor (if needed).
- Thesis title.
- Abstract of the thesis project.
- Main objectives.
- Bibliographic research.
- Papers published on the subject (if available).
The Department's Postgraduate and Doctorate Committee appoints an Assessment Committee for the thesis project. The student must prepare a memorandum of the project, which will be presented to the members of the Assessment Committee, and will make a public presentation of it. The members of the Committee may be both internal and external to the Department.
La documentación para el Tribunal Único ha de constar:
- Recopilación de todos los artículos que le han proporcionado los 6 créditos de trabajos de investigación o en su caso los trabajos de investigación tutelados realizados.
- Breve comentario (2 páginas como máximo) del contenido y trayectoria de los puntos del apartado anterior.
Cuando el director de la tesis considere que el trabajo está listo para su entrega y defensa, informará a la Comisión de Tercer Ciclo, Investigación y Doctorado del Departamento. Al mismo tiempo el doctorando hará llegar tres copias de la tesis al coordinador del programa. La Comisión distribuirá la tesis a tres doctores del ámbito al que corresponda la tesis y que preferiblemente impartan docencia o dirijan trabajos de investigación tutelados en el marco del programa de doctorado. Estos doctores tendrán que emitir, en un término de quince días hábiles, un informe razonado sobre la conveniencia o no de la presentación y lectura de la tesis.
Si el informe de dos o más revisadores es desfavorable, el doctorando habrá de hacer las modificaciones propuestas por los revisadores y volver a repetir el proceso. En este caso la revisión la harán los mismos revisadores siempre que sea posible. En la segunda y posteriores revisiones los revisadores sólo podrán incidir en aquellos aspectos que ya fueron señalados en la primera revisión.
Si el informe de todos los revisadores es favorable, la tesis podrá ser depositada y procederse al trámite de lectura.
Si únicamente el informe de un revisador es desfavorable, la Comisión de Tercer Ciclo, Investigación y Doctorado del Departamento habrá de decidir si hay que tomar en consideración las sugerencias hechas por el revisador.
In first place, graduates in Industrial Engineering, Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Engineering, and also any qualification homologable with one of the above, whether national or foreign.
Secondly, graduates in Telecommunications Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mining Engineers.
The knowledge base necessary to follow this doctorate programme is the one acquired in an electrical engineering master. Students coming from different profiles, should follow some specific subjects, selected in conjunction with his or her supervisor.
More information: doctorat.ee@upc.edu