Joint programs
Biomedical Engineering
English, Spanish and Catalan
The doctoral programme in Biomedical Engineering is multidisciplinar and requires participation of different Departments to achieve a high level of quality and specialization.
Since 2003-04, the interuniversitary programme is composed by different research groups with high experience in Biomedical Engineering topics from the UPC and Universidad de Zaragoza universities, and offer courses in different topics.
Currently, courses are developed in the framework of Master in Biomedical Engineering of both Universities and other related Official Masters, as well as Seminars organized in the Quality Mention actions for mobility of professors.
The programme courses and seminars offer the main research topics necessary to write a doctoral thesis in one of the following fields:
biomaterials, biomedical instrumentation, biomedical signal analysis, biosystem modelling and simulation, medical robotics and computer vision, and radiation dosimetry.
Objectives:
Modern health systems involve the use of advanced techonology and demand close interdisciplinary collaboration in R&D between industry and research centres. This situation has led to the consolidation of university studies in biomedical engineering in the developed world. The courses which make up this programme enable students to study in depth such areas as biomaterials, biomedical instrumentation, biomedical signal analysis, biosystem modellig and simulation, medical robotics and radiation
dosimetry. In this way, students can choose different topics in accordance
with the focus of their future doctoral thesis.To enhance the interdisciplinary training of students, courses and research works related to Doctorate Programme are organized on different research topics. The intensifications of the Programme on Biomedical
Engineering are the following:
· Biomechanics and Biomaterials
· Dosimetry
· Biomedical Instrumentation
· Medical Imaging
· Robotics and Vision
· Biomedical Signals and Systems
The courses, seminars and research works are linked to Masters on Biomedical Engineering, of the UPC and UZ, as well as other related Masters.
Business Administration and Management
Spanish, Catalan and/or English
The program of doctorate covers the area of knowledge with an intention of transversalidad and an extent and with the own specifications of the investigation of a technical university (Production, Quality, Management of the technological change, Management of the Innovation, Information systems, Management of the Knowledge, etc ..) that is difficult to offer out of the frame of a department as that of Organization of Companies that is numerous, multidisciplinary and that has specific groups of investigation in these disciplines.
The general aims of the program are to provide a formation of the third high-level cycle in different areas of the management and to those of the economic science that I base of the first ones.
The program of doctorate has as specific aims offer the PhD students:
* An offer thought about the formation as investigators and that allows them to get in the field of the specialized publications.
* To be able to penetrate into the new theoretical trends into the fields where the department has specific groups of investigation.
*Theoretical rigorous bases for the learning of the sciences of the management in which they have of professional training.
CHEMICAL PROCESS ENGINEERING
Devoted essentially to the development of innovative methodologies and procedures, the application to industry has been a prioritary aspect. The Ph D thesis have been characterized by their innovative and originagility features, their thechnological significance and their applicability in the fields of industrial production and environmental protection. The two main research axis of the doctorate program are the design, improvement, simulation and optimization of operations and processes, and the analysis and reduction of risk and of environmental impact in their diverse aspects (major accidents, releases, wastes).
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Objectives: Complete the training of students in the topics on which students will carried out the research. Train them in researching in civil engineering topics through the knowledge of the sources of information and the experimental, bibliografical research tools. Introduce the methodology to advance engineering research, identifying pending issues to propose solutions to resolve them.
COMEM - Master in Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management
English
2010-2012
This Erasmus Mundus M.Sc. programme is organized by a consortium of five European higher education institutions: Delft University of Technology (TU Delft); Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); University of Southampton (Soton); City University (City) and UPC Barcelona Tech. It is designed to train students within a broad curriculum that will allow them to improve their skills in Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management. This M.Sc. provides a broad coastal and marine European education relevant for engineering and management isues in coastal areas worldwide. This includes the essential knowledge and tools in coastal engineering and management, taught within a sustainability framework that stresses ethical and long-term issues and responsibilities. The five partner universities have long-lasting relationships, both on a personal basis (teaching staff involved) and on an institutional basis (in terms of research and education). It also includes an integral educational component based on enhanced ethical development and multifaceted social capabilities
Communication Systems Engineering , M.Sc.
English
2
The primary goal of the Communication Systems Engineering Master degree is to train students for exciting and successful careers in telecommunications systems engineering. At the end of this training, students are able to design and supervise communication systems as simple as point to point communication links to more complex heterogeneous networks.
Career Opportunities
Design of transmission systems: specification of components in a transmission system, integration, building up test-bench, validation of the complete system.
Telecommunications network engineer: design of telecommunications networks, specification of network equipments, evaluation of network resource, integration and validation.
Supervisor for networks and information systems: analysis and diagnostic of network problems, implementation of solutions, control of the results.
After several years of work experience.
Telecommunications network architect : definition and design of the architecture of a telecommunication network and related services.
Computational and Applied Physics
English, Spanish and Catalan
The main purpose of our studies is to provide a high level training in the fields of Computational Physics and Applied Physics, as well as to supply an appropriate background in the general methodologies of the scientific and technical research. Our aim is that the future PhDs will have the capacity to lead both research and technological innovation in the fields indicated above. The PhD studies in ‘Computational and Applied Physics' are being participated by university professors and researchers from the Department of Applied Physics and the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) together with researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences.
PhD studies are a substantial part of the university formation. Among university tasks there are diffusion and efficient managing of financial resources, needed to offer PhD programs of outstanding quality. University departments are those responsible of leading such programs, since this is the logical and usual methodology in the European and American universities where PhD studies are deeply related to research in a department. Following this general procedure, we can justify the need of a PhD program basically involving the two Physics departments of the Technical University of Catalonia.
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
The objective of the doctoral programme is to train researchers with international competence in some of the areas covered by the programme: computer architecture, operative systems, communications and networks of computers, and microelectronic design. These researchers will be called on to contribute, within their fields of experience, to scientific, technical, social and economic progress, with the industries and institutions in which they will perform their professional tasks. In the field of teaching, the doctoral programme will also have the objective of training the lecturers who will be responsible for university teaching in the areas of knowledge covered by the programme.
To achieve these objectives, the program defines two specializations: 1) High-performance Computing and Technology and 2) Communication Networks and Distributed Systems.
