Transport Engineering & Infrastructures

The PhD program in Transport Engineering & Infrastructures deals jointly with knowledge issues related to transport, such as transport infrastructure and engineering, logistics organization and transport systems modeling, as well as urban and regional planning.

The program provides training at the doctoral level in scientific research methodologies for transport infrastructures and technical systems, logistics and urban services in the following fields of competence:

  • Network infrastructures planning and design
  • Mathematical analysis and numerical modelling of technical systems and their impact on the territory
  • Organization and operations in transport systems and logistics
  • Urban analysis of planning infrastructure networks with the territory
  • Economy, financing and evaluation of the construction of infrastructure networks and the exploitation of their technical systems

Academic year
  • Starts: October 1st
  • Ends: September 30th
Duration 4 years (full-time) or 7 years (part-time)
Delivery On-campus
Places Studies in extinction: no new students are admitted at this point
Official degree Ph.D. Degree in Marine Sciences by the Universitat de Barcelona and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (recorded in the Spanish Ministry of Education's degree register)
Dedication

When pre-enrolling to the degree, students must choose their dedication, which may be:

  • Full-time
  • Part-time
Fees

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Academic coordinator Rodrigo Miró Recasens
Secretariat UPC-Campus Nord
Building C2, Room 202
Phone: +34 934 017 094
Email: doctorat.EIT.camins@upc.edu
More information UPC's Doctoral School

How?

On-line

Where?

At e-Secretaria

When?
  • Ordinary call: From 1st till 31st October.
Documents generated by this procedure
  • Enrolment form (e-Secretaria)
  • Enrolment certificate (e-Secretaria)

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Who monitors my work?

The academic committee of the doctoral program is in charge of monitoring the student's work yearly.

When?
  • In the month of July. The director and the student will previously receive an email indicating how and when they will have to submit the documentation for the evaluation by the Academic Committee of the program.
ATTENTION: Failing to submit the required documents will result in a FAIL score.
When will I know the result?

In September, when the Academic Committee issues the final results, students will receive an email to inform that the records are available at e-Secretaria.

Documents generated by the procedure
  • Official academic record

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What is it?

A research plan is a document that briefly defines the research activity that will take place and guides the student through the process.

How do I write it?
When will I submit and defend my research plan?

During the 1st academic year, students must submit their research plan.

On the 2nd academic year, the plan is updated, if necessary, and then publicly defended in front of the assessing pannel.

Public defenses are scheduled within two calls:

  • in June (for students that have enroled for the first time in September).
  • in February (for students that have enroled for the first time in February's extraordinary call).

For specific dates, please contact the secretariat for each program.

What does the public defense entail?

The public defense consists of an oral exposition of the written Research Plan during no more than 20 minutes, followed by a 5-minute time for questioning or commenting on the part of the assessing pannel. The mark will be either "Satisfactory" or "Non satisfactory”. In case of receiving a "Non satisfactory" mark, the Doctoral Commission can offer the student up to 6 months to make the necessary amends.

The assessing pannel will consist of three doctors, two belonging to the Doctoral programme and a third one foreign to the programme. Neither the director of the thesis, nor the supervisor may be part of the pannel.

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When?

During the course.

ATTENTION: The Support Unit to Doctoral Studies will not formalize thesis registrations on public or local holidays (which includes low-occupancy periods), or school holidays (21st-23th December 2022 and 24th-30th July 2023). Theses registered before September 30th 2023 will be considered part of the 2022-2023 academic year.

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To apply for...

  • A change to full- or part-time
  • A change of thesis supervisor
  • An extension
  • A temporary withdrawal
Where?

Access the general request area of the UPC electronic site and upload the specific form for each procedure to ED (forms).

 

For information and procedures on...

  • Co-supervisor
  • Agreements
  • Industrial doctorates
  • Grants
  • Mobility
  • Legalization of documents
  • Equivalences
Where?

Please visit the UPC's Doctoral School for more information.