Objetivos y recursos IMEE
IMEE Objectives and Competencies
OBJECTIVE
The main objective of this Ph.D. program is to train highly qualified researchers in the field of Mechanical Engineering as a common denominator, in order to exploit synergies and promote the transversality of teaching. Mechanical Engineering, due to its breadth, its interest in the industry, and the complexity of many of its subjects, is a field in which very active research, both public and private, all over the world, giving rise to a very high number of Doctoral Theses. To cite some of the topics currently being addressed include computer simulation methods; advances in CAD, finite element, CAE, CFD and other numerical techniques; methods of analysis and synthesis of mechanisms and multi-body systems in general, including robotics; theoretical and experimental structural dynamics, vibrations and noise in machines; theoretical and experimental methods of fatigue and fracture analysis; methods of analysis for special materials, for example composites; biomechanics; tribology; friction and wear modelling; modelling of wear and friction; modelling of the behaviour and behaviour of materials and systems in general, including robotics; structural dynamics in theory and experiment, vibrations and noise in machines; theoretical and experimental methods of fatigue and fracture analysis; methods of analysis for special materials, for example composites; biomechanics; tribology: modelling of friction and wear; techniques for the treatment of coupled mechanical, thermal and fluid problems; mechatronics; design and manufacturing techniques for nano-technology; machining of advanced materials; non-conventional manufacturing techniques, such as laser applications, electroerosion, and others; numerical modelling of manufacturing processes; techniques for the implementation of production systems and industrial plants; etc.
The proposed Doctoral Programme includes scientific-technical contents in at least the following aspects of Mechanical Engineering:
1.- Mechanical Systems and Machines
2.- Vehicles
3.- Advanced Materials in Mechanics
4.- Thermal Engineering and Energy Systems
5.- Computational Mechanics
6.- Mechanical Design
7.- Techniques of management and implementation of production systems
COMPETENCIES
As established in Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January, which regulates official doctoral studies, these studies will guarantee, as a minimum, the acquisition by the doctoral student of the following competencies and personal skills:
● CB11 - Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field.
● CB12 - Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.
● CB13 - Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
● CB14 - Ability to critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize new and complex ideas.
● CB15 - Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
● CB16 - Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic, or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
● CA02 - Find the key questions to be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
● CA03 - Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
● CA04 - Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
● CA05 - Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and formulate judgments with limited information.
● CA06 - Critique and intellectual defense of solutions.
In this doctoral program, doctoral students must also acquire the following specific competencies:
● GC1 - Development of skills in the creation of products within the framework of sustainable development.
● GC2 - Development of skills in the handling, processing, and creation of complex analytical tools, in particular mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
● CT1 - Capacity for the management and execution of research and technology transfer projects in Industrial Engineering.
● CT2 - Development of the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.
● CT3 - Development of the capacity for mobility for the internationalization of research.
● CE - Ability to plan and manage basic and applied research in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Energy Systems, Computational Mechanics, and Industrial Design.
