Program access information

In duly justified cases (e.g., the student has work responsibilities, is an elite athlete, etc.), the program will admit part-time students.

The body in charge of the admission process to the program will be the Academic Committee of the PhD program in Electronic Engineering (CAPDIE), chaired by the Coordinator of the program and integrated, in a balanced way, by doctors belonging to the different research structures of the Universitat Politècnica de València in which the research lines covered by the program are developed.

The admission criteria will take into account, in order of highest to lowest weight in the qualification of the applications, the undergraduate (or engineer and graduate, if applicable) and master’s degrees completed by the applicant, his/her academic record and other merits of special relevance (previous participation in research projects, publications, etc.). The adequacy of the previous training (FP) of the applicants to the research lines of the program is considered of great importance and therefore is assigned the highest weighting for the qualification and ranking of applications: 50%, distributed between undergraduate degrees or equivalent (FPg) and university master’s degrees or equivalent (FPm), with a weighting of 20% and 30%, respectively.

Without wishing to be exhaustive, since the casuistry that can occur is too large to be able to cover it in its entirety, some examples of qualifications assigned to the qualifications accredited by the applicants are detailed below:

• Degree in Telecommunications Technical Engineering, specializing in electronic systems: 10/10.
• Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, other specialty: 6/10.
• Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation: 10/10.
• Master in Electronic Systems Engineering UPV: 10/10.
• Telecommunications Engineer, specializing in electronic systems: 10/10.
• Telecommunications Engineer, other specialty: 6/10.
• Industrial Engineer, specializing in electronic and automatic systems: 10/10.
• Industrial Engineer, other specialty: 6/10.

The academic transcript (EA) of applicants reflects their performance throughout their previous years of education and is therefore considered a very important criterion for the admission of applicants, with a weighting of 40%.

Finally, other merits (OM) of special relevance for the development of the research activity (previous participation in research projects, publications, etc.) are taken into account with a weighting of 10% of the total.

In summary, scoring each of the criteria between 0 and 10, the score assigned to the applications (P) is:

P = 0.2 * FPg + 0.3 * FPm + 0.4 * EA + 0.1 * OM

The preferred profile for access to the program corresponds to applicants who have completed the Master’s Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering (MUISE), in which case no additional training is required regardless of the line of research in which the future doctor will develop his or her activities. Other access profiles that will not require additional training will be the graduates of the Master in Telecommunications Engineering (MIT) and the Master in Industrial Engineering (MII), in both cases having studied the specialty in electronics. For the rest of the specialties of MIT and MII graduates, training complements of up to 24 ECTS are foreseen to be taken within the framework of the MUISE, whose specific contents will be chosen according to both the specialty previously studied and the line of research within which the future doctor will develop his or her activities. In such cases, the learning outcomes, training activities and evaluation systems will be the same as for MUISE students.

The academic committee of the program, after studying the curriculum of the doctoral student, will decide whether it is appropriate for him/her to take complementary training courses. Where appropriate, it will define the list of subjects to be taken from the university’s postgraduate academic offer, considering the specific training required by the doctoral student for the proper development of his or her research work. It must be considered, in this sense, that there is a training offer in the Masters related to the doctorate in question that allows this assignment to be made without problems of adequacy.

Basics

• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
• Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
• Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
• Ability to critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize new and complex ideas.
• Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

Personal skills and abilities

• To develop in contexts where there is little specific information.
• Find the key questions to be answered to solve a complex problem.
• Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
• Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
• Intellectual criticism and defense of solutions.

Other competencies

• Conceive, design and develop high-speed digital systems and multiprocessor systems.
• Conceive, design and develop analog and mixed integrated circuits.
• Conceive, design and develop electronic electrical energy conversion systems, including the processing of renewable sources and the quality of the electrical supply.
• Conceive, design and develop electronic instrumentation and signal processing systems.
• Conceive, design and develop electronic systems in the fields of biomedical engineering.