Engineering Science PhD 3 years Full-time

This PhD programme is tailored to meet national and international societal needs for forward-thinking expertise within the aforementioned areas, related to digitalisation, health-technology, information security, sustainability, environment etc.

The academic environment and research groups connected to the programme, and the course portfolio that is offered, are specially designed to accommodate society’s needs for candidates who know how to enable technologies.

The programme will be at the research frontier within the areas offered for study and as such provide readiness to understand and develop solutions to progressive technological challenges such as digitalisation of health and welfare services, the green shift, advanced building technology, urbanisation and digital vulnerability.

The PhD programme has a nominal length of three years of full-time study and comprises 180 ECTS. The working language of the programme is English.

The training component comprises 30 ECTS (10 ECTS are granted for compulsory courses, 20 ECTS are granted for elective courses) and the research component (dissertation) comprises 150 ECTS.

The compulsory courses focus on ethical and methodological issues within engineering science.

In addition, a number of elective courses of specialisation within different areas of engineering science are offered. Students may also apply to take elective courses at other institutions.

This PhD is related to the engineering departments at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design: Department of Computer Science, Department of Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical Engineering, and Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology — and to Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet).