Goals

Introduction

The general objective of the Doctorate program in “Electronic Systems Engineering” (DSE) is to offer quality preparation to train researchers and professionals with high capacity and competence in their R&D&i areas at an international level, and thus achieve the adequate integration of our University in the European Higher Education Area.

More specifically, it is pursued:

1. Provide the student with an overview of the state of the art of new technologies that are relevant to the chosen field of specialization.
2. Provide a specific and methodological basis to carry out research and development work in the area of ​​electronic systems, with applications in various fields such as optical communications, telephone services, home automation, or bioengineering, among others.
3. Facilitate the completion of a Doctoral Thesis with international projection, seeking contact with and encouraging stays in research groups from other European centers with which collaboration is maintained through different R&D&I projects, and some of whose professors participate in the Program.

The integration of teaching staff and collaborators from other national and European centers, together with the Department’s experience in teaching doctoral programs and its intense research activity, are guarantees that guarantee the achievement of the stated objectives.

Regarding the prospects for attracting graduates, although the natural area of ​​origin of these will be Telecommunications Engineering, the variety of technologies and the strategic objective set make the Program open to other degrees that are either complementary in the development of some of the technologies involved, or can serve as reconversion towards applied areas with future interest. Specifically, we can expect the incorporation of students from Faculties of Physical or Chemical Sciences, as well as Schools of Electronic, Industrial, Materials, Computer Engineering, and other engineering fields.

General Objectives of the Doctoral Program

Obj. 1

Train the student in the critical analysis, design, implementation, integration and evaluation of advanced systems, circuits or devices, applying state-of-the-art research tools and techniques:

• New optoelectronic devices, microsensors or nanotechnological devices.
• New electronic systems and architectures for digital processing, systems on a chip, etc.
• Multimodal interaction systems between people and machines to create universally accessible human-machine interfaces.
• Advanced embedded systems based on incomplete specifications or with a high degree of uncertainty.
• Automatic help systems for medical diagnosis (with a multidisciplinary interaction between engineering and biology).

Obj. 2

Train the student in the application of advanced methodologies, tools and techniques for management, planning, decision-making and control of highly complex research projects in new application environments, with adequate technical, economic and social criteria.

Obj. 3

That the student carry out an original research process, with academic seriousness and integrity, building new hypotheses and models and applying them to the resolution of problems that advance the state of the art in electronic systems for intelligent environments, and participate in R&D&I projects where they interact with expert researchers from their area of ​​knowledge and other areas, in multidisciplinary research teams.

Obj. 4

That the student write scientific-technical research reports and articles and publicly present their work, results and conclusions before national and international expert audiences, both in English and Spanish.

Obj. 5

Develop in the student the ability to learn and document themselves autonomously to allow their continuous training throughout their research life.