The program of PhD in Industrial Engineering (DEI) was first offered in the academic year 2008/2009 and awards the degree of Doctor of Industrial Engineering after the approval of the doctoral thesis. The doctoral program, is structured in accordance with the Bologna process and the typical duration is 3 years at full time (180 ECTS), corresponding the first year to the curricular component (Doctoral Course) and the subsequent 2 years to the research and thesis development component.
The aim of the doctoral program in Industrial Engineering is to offer high-level education in this scientific, enlarging the knowledge frontiers.
The Industrial Engineering has a markedly cross-domain character. This transversal character is reflected on the diverse range of areas where such knowledge frontier broadening can cover. Indeed, the proposed studies plan offers areas such as Logistics, the Operations Management, the Quality Engineering, Information Technologies and Systems, or Ergonomics. Moreover, it should be noted, that the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering evidences a sustained and diversified experience of doctorates in these scientific domains, naturally potentiating the conditions of success for the development of research projects.
The proposed curricular route offers the doctoral students the opportunity to update their knowledge in some of the above mentioned areas. This enrichment is provided along with a more general curricular education, mainly oriented to the domain of research methodologies and qualitative and quantitative methods to support research. The goal is to achieve an objective of methodological nature, ensuring the establishment of basic foundations, to build upon, strong and consistently, the production of new knowledge. In the same framework, a complementary objective is to stimulate the argumentation ability in the doctoral students, based on current scientific knowledge and tested in public confrontation, through the systematic use of oral presentations about the evolution of their research projects.
Thus, the overall goal is for the PhDs in Industrial Engineering to demonstrate the ability to develop university-level research autonomously in their knowledge domain and/or to transport and introduce innovative approaches to the enterprise environment.
In any case, their ability to develop, integrate, communicate and learn new concepts will, in a more strict sense, be an added value for the organizations in which they are integrated and, in a more broad sense, to the whole society.
Doctors in Industrial Engineering may work at Universities and Higher Education Institutions and Polytechnics, laboratories and research and development, public or private companies and public administration.
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Portuguese students:
2 750 Euros/ year
Foreign students:
2 750 Euros/ year
1st phase: 7th march to 22nd march
2nd phase: 1st to 30th of june
3rd phase: 23rd august to 4th september
Vacancies for 2023/2024:
15
Admission rules:
The 3rd study cycle leading to the Doctor in Industrial Engineering is aimed for Master's Degree holders in Industrial Engineering, Management and related fields.
Also aplly can holders of a:
• Degree course with a rating less than fourteen with a particularly relevant academic or scientific curriculum recognized as attesting capacity to accomplish this study cycle by the Scientific Council;
• Academic, scientific or professional curriculum recognized by NOVA FCT's Scientific Council as attesting capacity to carry out the doctoral program.
Documentation for the application process (on line):
1. Qualifications certificate listing the obtained grades;
2. Curriculum vitae and professional;
3. Statement of Intent (Letter of Intent) in which the candidate explains why he/she is interested in doing the PhD program;
Ranking:
Course coordinator:
Professor Helena Carvalho
DGES
Registration number R/A-Ef 3073/2011/AL01 on 14/10/2019
A3ES
Publication date of the accreditation decision: 10/10/2022
Period of validity of the accreditation:
6 years from 31/07/2020
The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (DEMI) is a permanent organic unit of Nova School of Science and Technology, dedicated to teaching, to fundamental and applied scientific research and to the provision of services in the fields of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
DEMI counts, currently, with 5 employees and 44 teachers who are committed to offering the best teaching experience and the best knowledge to their students, helping them develop their skills and achieve their personal and professional goals.
DEMI teachers also collaborate, at different levels, with diverse public and private institutions, particularly in the development of research projects in scientific and technological areas of relevance to Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, which aim to respond to the needs of the society.
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