Methodology

Methodology

The teaching methodology designed for Doctorate studies in “Electronic Systems Engineering” (DISE) takes into account the context in which it is developed, and specifically two fundamental conditions:

1. The rapid advancement of science and technology in the field of electronic systems.
2. The wide range of specialized knowledge required.

The first condition requires the orientation of doctoral training towards processes of learning permanently updated knowledge and the bases that support them, which require the development of initiative and autonomous work. The objective is to achieve in the student the assimilation of relevant knowledge that will allow him to successfully face his future research or professional work, while acquiring the adequate capacity to adapt to a strongly changing technological environment. The second determines a careful selection of the topics covered in each subject, appropriately balancing the scientific knowledge on which the programmed subject is based and the state of the art at each moment, and focusing on the problem of interest in the scientific community.

The teaching methodology is based on planning the curriculum of each doctoral student. This planning is facilitated by the obligation imposed on students to choose an academic tutor with whom they must maintain periodic interviews, starting with some initials in which the set of training activities to be carried out will be defined, occasionally including those from external doctoral programs that the tutor considers of interest. The adaptation of the training curriculum to the expectations, objectives and experience of each student is guaranteed since the body of academic tutors will be made up of those teachers with the greatest teaching and research experience.

Once enrolled in the program, a personalized Activity Document will be created for each doctoral student for the purposes of individualized control registration. All activities of interest for the development of the doctoral student will be registered in accordance with the UPM Doctoral Model. This Activities Document will be managed in a web application with access control.

Before the end of the first year, the doctoral student will prepare a Research Plan that will include, at least, the methodology to be used and the objectives to be achieved, as well as the means and time planning to achieve it. The Research Plan can be improved and detailed throughout your stay in the program. This Plan must be signed (electronically) by the director or directors of the thesis.

Annually, the Academic Commission of the Doctoral Program will evaluate the Research Plan and the Activities Document of each doctoral student, along with the reports that the tutor and the director must issue for this purpose. The positive evaluation will be an essential requirement to continue in the program. In the event of a negative evaluation, which will be duly motivated, the doctoral student must be evaluated again within six months, for which purpose a new Research Plan will be developed. In the event of a new negative evaluation, the doctoral student will permanently withdraw from the program.

The center responsible for the doctoral program will establish the supervision functions of the doctoral students through a documentary commitment signed by said Center, the doctoral student, their tutor and their director. This commitment will be signed as soon as possible after admission and must include a conflict resolution procedure and contemplate aspects related to intellectual or industrial property rights that may be generated in the scope of the doctoral program.