Civil Engineering
Cycle
Terceiro ciclo
Degree
Doutor
Paths
- Specialty in Hydraulics
- Specialty in Geotechnical
- Specialty in Structures
- Specialty in Construction Science
Coordinator
Valter José da Guia Lúcio
Opening date
October
Fees
2750,00 Euros/year for all students.
Schedule
It depends on the working method of each training course. The working time for the classes will be agreed with each PhD student, or when there are more than 10 students in each year, it will be agreed with all students of the programme.
Education objectives
The objectives of the Doctorate in Civil Engineering:
- To train high level technicians in the field of Civil Engineering, with the ability to apply, through scientific methods, the knowledge acquired, displaying an updated general training in different areas and a particularly robust in the specialty training in carrying out his PhD;
- Forming Civil Engineering professionals with critical thinking and ability to understand problems, formulate them, resolve them and continue to learn (training) with autonomy. To this end, a targeted training to understand the issues, attitudes and reasoning to apply in its resolution is key;
- Check ability to design, deploy, adapt and carry out research respecting high standards of academic quality and integrity;
- Promote the development of original and innovative research in various specialties of civil engineering that contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge dissemination and deserve international publications with the selection committee;
- Provide students with the skills of PhD oral and written expression, sometimes in foreign languages, enabling them to communicate accurately, clearly and unambiguously its conclusions and the reasoning underlying them, both specialists and non-specialists.
Access conditions
Application requirements:
- Holder of a master degree in any area pertaining to the Exact Sciences or Engineering, or recognized equivalent;
- Holder of a master degree from a foreign institution;
- Holder of a higher education degree from a foreign institution in any one of the aforementioned areas, considered by the Scientific Council of the School of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon to satisfy the prerequisites for an undergraduate degree;
- Holder of academic, scientific or professional qualifications considered by the Scientific Council of the School of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon duly to attest to the candidate´s ability to undertake a corresponding cycle of studies.
Criteria for the ranking of candidates:
- Overall grade-point average of undergraduate course
- Scientific and professional qualifications (curriculum vitae)
- Successful interview, when required