Duration of the programme: 4 years (8 semesters)
Medium of instruction: English
Programme description:
The PhD programme is aimed at teaching doctoral students innovative and novel techniques, methodologies and implementations focused on civil engineering, geodesy and transport. The training programme includes obligatory and facultative courses, which highlight various aspects related to the discipline, as well as lectures conducted by visiting professors from related research areas. The most important topics covered by the training programme are: advanced mathematical and numerical methods, optimization, measuring systems. This programme provides the doctoral students with the required background in the field of civil engineering, geodesy and transport, allowing them to develop their own ideas and concepts, as well as creative problem solving skills.
Career opportunities:
The graduates of the PhD programme have the knowledge and skills in the field of civil engineering, geodesy and transport. They are qualified either to enter an industry as unit leaders or to continue their research in academia.
Key words:
- Bridge structures
- Building physics
- Coastal engineering
- Composite panels and shells
- Concrete structures
- Construction management
- Dynamics of structures
- Earthquake engineering
- Flood protection
- Foundation engineering
- Fracture mechanics
- Geomatics engineering
- Geomechanics
- Geotechnical engineering
- Groundwater flow
- Hydraulic structures
- Measurements
- Mechanics of materials
- Metal Structures
- Non-destructive testing
- Numerical modelling
- Railway engineering
- Reliability assessment
- Road construction
- Sensitivity analysis
- Traffic engineering
- Wave mechanics
Research areas:
- Structural mechanics
- Transportation Engineering
- Hydraulic engineering and water resources
- Civil Engineering Structures
- Building Materials Engineering
- Geotechnical and Geomatics Engineering