Doctorate in Energy Systems and Climate Change
Aveiro, Portugal
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
Portuguese, English
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Doctorate in Energy Systems and Climate Change
Provide the knowledge, techniques and systemic vision required to produce scientifically relevant contributions involving the design, analysis, control and operation of systems that support energy, material and information flows, in particular regarding, conversion transport, storage and use of energy, taking into account the availability of natural resources and their relation to climate change, including the study of their mitigation and resilience factors for adaptation to climate change. The main characteristic of this doctoral program is its holistic view, integrating areas of engineering and environment with those of economics and management, providing an analysis of the energy systems in the perspective of sustainable development. It is also an objective of the doctoral program to gradually qualify students for the autonomous development of research and development work by integrating them into research teams with a special emphasis on the preparation and elaboration of the thesis.
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Scholarships and Funding
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Curriculum
Year 1
1st Semester
- Energy and Climate Change
- Research Methodologies in Energy and Climate Changes
2nd Semester
Thesis Project Preparation
Year 2
Thesis (2nd Year)
Year 3
Thesis (3rd Year)
Program Outcome
- To provide capacity for the analysis, understanding and quantification of energy and mass flows in contemporary societies and their relationship with natural resources, technologies, policy, management and climate change;
- To provide skills and methods for the development of research projects in the field of energy (conversion, transport, storage and use) and climate change (reduction and mitigation of the effects) and sustainability;
- To know, understand and apply computational and laboratory techniques and methodologies relevant to the development of RTD activity in major areas with the potential to develop research projects associated with the study of energy systems and climate change;
- To provide capacity to develop, in a systematic and autonomous way, bibliographic review procedures, including bibliometric analysis, aiming at the identification of the state of the art in a previously defined area of knowledge;
- To give the capacity to identify the needs, and to design and perform scientific research, in respect of the requirements imposed by academic quality and integrity standards, in a progressively autonomous way;
- To develop scientific communication skills that allow the presentation, in written and oral form, of research results in national or international conferences and/or publications with scientific revision;
- Develop critical thinking about the importance of energy, energy systems, and their interaction with the environment and society;
- To enable the exploitation of scientific, technological, social and economic progress in the academic and/or professional context, in a knowledge-based society.
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Career Opportunities
The competences given by the SEAC doctoral program allow students to work on the academy, research centres, firms, and also the possibility to create their own firms. For that purpose the expected acquired skills are:
- Detailed knowledge about the fundamental principles inherent to the design, development, operation and decommissioning of energy systems;
- Detailed knowledge about the process of climate change as a physical phenomena of global nature, as well as their potential implications on society, economy and management of natural resources, particularly energy resources;
- Detailed knowledge about the close relationship between energy systems and their effect on the environment and climate change;
- Ability to develop high level fundamental and/or applied scientific research in the field of energy systems and mitigation of their influence on climate change, as a goal for the sustainable development of society;
- Ability to communicate the findings of research and development (R&D) in the field of energy systems and their relation to climate change in international meetings integrating or creating international R&D networks;
- Competence for the development and implementation of energy systems ensuring the efficient use of natural resources in order to mitigate their adverse effects on the environment namely regarding climate change;
- ability to advance in the academic and / or business solutions, scientific progress, technological and social systems in the field of energy and climate change;
- Ability to get involved in society as an entrepreneur, creating wealth and jobs through innovative responses to problems and opportunities created by the new paradigm triggered by the need of a sustainable society