Instituto de Estudios de Posgrado

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Profile, admission requirements and training complements

Access requirements and admission criteria

The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program (CAPD) is the body in charge of establishing the access procedures and admission criteria, which are in line with current national legislation and with the regulations that regulate Doctoral Studies at the University of Córdoba

In the following link you can find the modalities of access to Doctoral studies, as well as the processes, documentation and deadlines for admission.

The CAPD in Advanced Computing, Energy and Plasma may proceed to the conditional admission of the candidate, without being able to enroll in academic supervision of Doctoral studies. The reasons that can give rise to a conditional admission are:

• Passing complementary training. When, in consideration of the aptitudes and qualifications of the candidate, it is appropriate that they pass the additional training that is legally determined prior to their incorporation into the Doctoral Program
• The presentation of supporting documentation of administrative requirements. When the applicant meets the admission requirements but is still awaiting formalization of the documentation or other administrative requirements (legalization of foreign documents, translation of documents, etc.)

If the requirements are not met before the end of the second enrollment period for academic supervision of Doctoral studies, admission will be canceled for all purposes.

There is a series of Research Masters that give direct access to this Doctoral Program, which are the following:

• Master in Intelligent Systems (in extinction)
• Master in Distributed Renewable Energies (Researcher Profile)
• Master in Industrial Process Control (in extinction)
• Master in Computer Engineering (in extinction)
• Master in Computational Intelligence and Internet of Things (Researcher profile)
  

Students who have completed Research Master's degrees other than those that give access to this Doctoral Program will have to present the complete documentation of their training when applying for Admission, so that the CAPD can decide whether it is necessary to carry out Complementary Training prior to admission to the Doctorate or during the first year of the Doctorate.

Regarding foreign language proficiency, students will be required to have accredited level B1 of English, although level B2 is recommended.

Entry profile and complementary training

The profile of the students of the Doctoral Program in advanced computing, energy and plasmas will be that of graduates or graduates in physics, engineers, graduates in computer and industrial engineering who hold a master's degree with a research profile related to the lines of program research. Regarding foreign language proficiency, students will be required to have accredited level B1 of English, although level B2 is recommended.

Once the candidacy to be admitted to the Doctoral Program has been received and the mandatory regulatory requirements, previous training, curricular background, motivation of the applicant and the Doctoral Thesis Work proposal have been analyzed, the CAPD may establish a proposal of complementary training based fundamentally on the follow-up of the courses offered in the context of the official master's degrees of the University of Córdoba for those candidates who need it. This proposal will be attached to the resolution for admission to the Program that the candidates receive.

For the purposes of public prices and the granting of scholarships and study grants, this complementary training will be considered as Doctorate level training and its development will not count for the purposes of the duration limit of the doctoral thesis indicated in the current Regulations.

For the establishment of this complementary training the scale approved by the Commission of Masters and Doctorates of the University of Córdoba will be taken into account.

Complementary training will be compulsory for those students who access the program while only in possession of a graduate degree of 300 ECTS credits or more, which does not include research training credits in their study plan.

Complementary training in the Doctoral Program is obtained from two sources. The first from the transversal research subjects offered by the Postgraduate Studies Institute, and the second from the methodological research subjects offered by each of the master's degrees that make up the training period of the Programme. The selection of the subjects that a student applying for admission must take will be the responsibility of the Academic Council of the Program in view of the previous training of the applicant, in agreement with the student's Tutor, in order to guarantee appropriate and uniform training among all the students of the program. In exceptional cases, a subject from any of the other master's degrees in the postgraduate offer of the University of Córdoba may be recommended as a complement to the training.

This offer is made up of subjects of 4 credits (ECTS). These are:

A) Research Transversals (IDEP).

· Theory, methodology and evaluation of scientific research.

· Communication and dissemination of science.

· Ethics applied to science and professional life.

· Technology transfer, protection of research results and creation of technology-based companies.

· Design of experiments and fundamentals of data analysis.

· Bibliographic search and analysis of the quality of scientific production.

· Advanced graphical representation of data and results of scientific work.

· Fundamentals and tools for modeling technical-scientific research processes (modeling and simulation of chemical, biological, physical and · technological systems).

· Research methodology in social and economic sciences.

· Citizenship, gender and coexistence.

B) Methodological

· Computer-assisted design

· Fundamentals of process control

· Fundamentals of process engineering

· Fundamentals of projects

· Industrial computing

· Electrical installations

· Fundamentals of renewable energy

· Instrumentation and metrology

· Direction and management of environmental projects

· Modeling and simulation of energy systems

· Approximate reasoning

· New trends in machine learning

· Advanced machine vision

· Full data mining

· Compiler optimization techniques

· High performance architectures

C) Master's Thesis

In those cases in which the CAPD of the PhD Program deems it appropriate, the applicant must carry out a research project equivalent to the Master's Thesis among those offered by the IdEP (16 ECTS credits) and that give direct access to the program.

Permanence

Rules of permanence

Previous information

The doctorate in advanced computing, energy and plasmas from the University of Córdoba constitutes a quality training proposal, interdepartmental in scope, with a professional and research orientation, aimed mainly at graduates in Engineering, Physics and Mathematics. It is a multidisciplinary proposal, endorsed by several research groups with experience in different areas of knowledge within engineering and technology and with international projection.

 Knowledge about the Doctoral Program can be obtained through this web page, which collects information about its denomination, objectives and competences that will be acquired, access qualifications, lines and related research teams,coordination bodies, number of vaancies on ofter, admission and selection criteria, complementary training, training activities, requirements for the thesis, evaluation procedures, specific agreements and procedures and indicators of quality assurance.

The Guide to Good Doctoral Practices of the University of Córdoba includes information of interest about the Doctoral studies.

On the UCO website you can find the servicies for university students that can facilitate the insertion of doctoral students in the university and in the city.

Furthermore, the Doctoral School of the University of Córdoba, or as the case may be, those responsible for the Program, hold an annual reception and welcome session for all doctoral students once the academic supervision enrollment period ends. It explains the basic rules of the Doctorate and guides the doctoral students on the procedures to follow, the people responsible for each of them, the most relevant deadlines, the management of both the doctoral website and the intranet, etc., with the aim of facilitating their insertion in the Doctoral Program and knowledge of the norms and procedures that regulate it

In addition, orientation and information actions are developed for students such as:

• UCO Graduate Fairs
• Conferences for the presentation of university master's degrees in UCO centers
• Participation in networks for the dissemination of the doctorate vacancy in the international arena: Carolina Foundation and the Ibero-American Postgraduate University Association (AUIP)
• Specific information programs on PhD studies in Ecuador, Italy, Greece, Israel and the Dominican Republic.
• Information actions developed by the UCO International Relations Office.
• Orientation of the teaching staff participating in the UCO master's degrees

Enrollment

Information about access and enrollment/registration

Assignment of tutor and director of the thesis

To contact the representatives of the research lines/teams and look for a possible Doctoral Thesis Tutor and Director, an essential requirement to apply for admission to this Doctoral Program, in the Línes and HR section you can find the faculty that currently composes the core of the Doctoral Program and its emails.

The rules and regulation of tutoring and thesis supervision can be found at the following Link

Grants

Information about the offers for scholarships and grants can be found at the following links:

• Convocatorias/Resoluciones de Doctorado propias de la UCO
• Convocatorias, Becas, Ayudas y Premios externas a la UCO

Training activities

The training activities plan is made up of a series of conferences that are part of an annual cycle developed throughout the academic year.

Approximately one monthly conference/seminar is held, the place and time being communicated to the students about 15 days in advance so that they can organize their schedules. Each of these training activities has a duration that can vary from 1 or 2 hours. In the case of workshops, the duration may be somewhat longer

For an effective control of these activities, the students will be called on a list, and they will later receive a certificate of attendance that will be signed by the President of the CAPD or by the teacher responsible for organizing the activity

Recommended activities

► Historical activities

Form for the presentation of the training plan

Form for the presentation of the training plan

skills

Basic

• CB11 - Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the skills and research methods related to this field.
• CB12 - Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
• CB13 - Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
• CB14 - Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
• CB15 - Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about one’s fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in one’s international scientific community.
• CB16 - Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

Personal abilities and skills

• CA01 - Manage in contexts in which there is little specific information.
• CA02 - Find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
• CA03 - Design, create, develop and undertake new and innovative projects in one’s field of knowledge.
• CA04 - Work both in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
• CA05 - Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
• CA06 - Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions

Other skills

• CE01 - Be able to carry out practical and theoretical work on the subjects of the program on one’s own.
• CE02 - Discriminate the operating principles of the different technologies and be able to evaluate them to make decisions about equipment and processes to be implemented in industry and/or research.
• CE03 - Know the latest advances in the technologies and processes that are the object of the Program, as well as the main sources of knowledge and scientific forums.
• CE04 - Know how to apply the knowledge acquired and have the ability to solve problems in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) related contexts.
• CE05 - Be able to integrate knowledge and judiciously face complexity based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of one’s knowledge and judgment.
• CE06 - Be able to promote, in academic and professional contexts, technological, social or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
• CE07 - Be able to transfer the research results generated to the business and industrial area.
• CE08 - Be able to understand formalisms and advanced/complex scientific theories for their subsequent application in the area of technology and engineering.

Control and follow-up

The follow-up of doctoral students is carried out both continuously (through the activities notebook) and through activities scheduled annually (annual follow-up).

For continuous monitoring, the University of Córdoba has a computer application (SIGMA) available to doctoral students in which all activities, both compulsory and optional, that are part of the comprehensive training of doctoral students will be recorded. When registering the research plan, and from then on in the annual follow-up, the doctoral students must submit to the CAPD of the PD a proposal of the activities and objectives of the work to be carried out that year, which will have the approval of the thesis directors and the tutor. If they are not activities already established as mandatory by the Program, their workload and the procedure that will be used for their evaluation must be made explicit.

Each time the doctoral student performs one of these activities, they must register it in the aforementioned application and their tutor or director must validate it and accept it as a training activity for the doctoral student. Every year, the doctoral students will send the supporting documentation of the activities carried out to the Institute of Postgraduate Studies

In order for the PhD students to present the development of their research plan, especially in relation to the methodology and the most significant advances and results achieved, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will appoint one or more integrated Monitoring Committees annually, made up of three PhDs, one of whom must be external to the Doctoral Program and the remaining two heads of research teams attached to the Program. If the necessary financial means are available, an international expert will be appointed as a doctor from outside the Doctoral Program. Likewise, the document of activities carried out and the reports that for this purpose must be issued by the person tutoring and/or directing the thesis will be presented.

The Monitoring Commission must prepare an individual report with the assessment of the work carried out and the degree of progress in relation to the previous year. This assessment will take into account the degree of compliance and the evaluations obtained in the training activities, as well as the aforementioned reports. 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 will undergo a new evaluation within a period of six months, for which purpose a new research plan will be drawn up. In the event of a new negative evaluation, it will cause definitive withdrawal from the Program.

The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will send the results of the follow-up to the Institute of Postgraduate Studies annually, on the date established by the Master's and Doctorate Committee. If, during the course of the academic year, significant modifications are made to the work plan presented, these must be communicated by the doctoral student, with the approval of their director, to the Academic Committee, which will communicate its resolution within a maximum period of 20 days.

Presentation and reading of the thesis

The presentation and reading of the thesis will be carried out according to those established in the regulations that regulate doctoral studies at the UCO, following the procedure that can be found in the following link.

Internacionalization

The University of Córdoba offers different grants for the internationalization of the doctorate, which are mainly materialized in calls for international stays to obtain the International Mention and the preparation of theses under joint supervision with foreign universities. These calls can be consulted in the section Announcements/PhD Resolutions.

Memoria verificada

• Memoria
• Informe final
• Informe de modificación 2021
• Informe de modificación 2020
• Informe de modificación 2018

Sistemas de Garantía de Calidad

• Reglamento del Sistema de Garantía de Calidad de la UCO
• Web del Sistema de Garantía de Calidad de la UCO

Planes de mejora

• Plan de mejora 2023/2024
• Plan de mejora 2022/2023

Informes de seguimiento anuales

• Seguimiento de Plan de Mejora Anual del curso 2022/23

Resultados del Sistema de Garantía de Calidad

• Gestor Documental

Autoinformes e informes de seguimiento

Informe de seguimiento

• Informe de seguimiento 2014/2015
• Informe de seguimiento 2015/2016
• Informe de seguimiento 2016/2017
• Informe de seguimiento 2020/2021
• Informe de seguimiento 2021/2022
• Autoinforme de seguimiento de convocatoria 21/22

Informe de renovación

• Informe de renovación de acreditacion 2018/2019

Actas de CAPD

• Año 2023

• 2023.01.26 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.02.14 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.03.09 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.03.15 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.04.14 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.05.12 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.06.05 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.07.12 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.07.28 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.09.20 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.10.06 - Acta CAPD
• 2023.10.17 - ActaCCAPD

Actas de reunión UGC

• 2023.11.02 - Acta UGC
• 2023.12.22 - Acta UGC