PhD in Physics Engineering

Started in 2009/2010. The minimum number of credits to obtain the grade is 240 (4 years).

Objectives

The competitiveness of the global market created new needs: decrease the time for technology transfer between research and industrial production; foster research and development at company level; seek new business areas in high-tech products with high added value, in order to compensate for the loss of competitiveness of traditional industries; solve new problems of increasing technological complexity. These factors become increasingly important the formation of engineers with these skills and so, since 1980, we are witnessing a growing interest in training in the area of ​​ Physics Engineering in all developed countries including Japan, the United States and Finland. Physics Engineering aims to develop new technologies that require applications belonging to the areas of physics that are not covered by traditional engineering, in particular those of modern physics.

Fulfilling the objectives of the 3rd cycle to ensure training leading to conceptual or instrumental innovation capabilities, critical analysis and evaluation, promotion of technological progress, skills that result from specialization and systematic understanding of a scientific-technological sub-area and the acquisition of skills and research methods , this doctoral program aims at training specialists with great innovation and technological progress capacity to promote following sub-areas of Physics Engineering:

Surface Engineering and Interfaces (thin films, catalysis, interface processes at molecular level, surface spectroscopies)

Studies in Advanced Materials (nano-structures, insulators, broadband semi-conductor metal oxides, magnetic materials and super-conductors, liquid crystals)

• Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
• Nuclear Analytical Techniques
• Optical (lasers, fiber optics, spectroscopy)
• Cryogenics
• Nanotechnology
• Instrumentation

These sub-areas, cover topics corresponding to high importance areas (with big international repercussions), with great technological application.

Structure

Career opportunities

Ensuring specialists training with strong innovation capabilities and technological progress in the area of promotion of Physics Engineering, this doctoral program gives career opportunities in university teaching and / or research, as well as top places in technical development companies, particularly in the sub-areas mentioned in the objectives. Among the capabilities provided to candidates, these include critical thinking, conceptual autonomy and entrepreneurship, aiming at the creation of new businesses.

Organization

The program consists of a doctoral program with 60 ECTs, and a doctoral thesis with 180 ECTs.

The completion of the doctoral program entitles an Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA).

OBSERVATIONS

The course is unique. As the initial preparation, the student may be asked to conduct courses belonging to the 2nd cycle Master in Biomedical Engineering. Students can obtain 12 ECTS by attending and passing courses of the 3rd cycle of any other doctoral program of this University and others with which it a cooperation agreement is established.

The first year of the course corresponds to the Advanced Studies Diploma (60 ECTS).

Study Plan