Electrical Engineering – (Ph.D.)

Even tough the main goal of the PhD programme is to enable and prepare students for the most demanding research work in the field of electrical engineering, it is also with their degree that they will gain a set of skills or a kind of proficiency in their field, which are not the only necessary requirements in search for employment in their research field. With the PhD study programme, the students will obtain a competence, which is needed in a place where new, complicated challenges occur on a regular basis. These challenges cannot be solved with already known methods and simplified solutions, but only with thought out innovative approach. In order to do so, we include some of the approaches in the following lines:

· to develop innovative solutions by combining a variety of original strategies, or improving already known methods and approaches,

· to solve complicated problems with newly designed tools or methods,

· to prepare rational plans for realization of new discoveries,

· to quickly find, extract and integrate information from both complete and incomplete sources,

· to confront the unknown, and uncertain, as well as anticipate possible changes and difficulties,

· to accept possible failure and act accordingly,

· to work independently, precisely and with perseverence,

· to see things differently, with flexibility and interdisciplinary approach,

· to cooperate with others,

· to manage time, as well as material, workgroup and financial sources,

· always have curiosity, follow recent trends and quickly adapt to new skills and knowledge,

· to successfully communicate for various purposes and with the use of different media.

Suggested PhD programme in Electrical engineering will offer an in-depth study in the fields of automatics and robotics, electronic engineering, power engineering, telecommunications and mechatronics, such as:

* Theory of systems and closed-loop control, modeling, simulation and open-loop control of industrial systems and processes, cybernetics.
* signal processing, electrical measurements, measurements of the non-electric quantities, sensorics, optical electronics, photonics, micro and nanotechnology, radio frequent and microwave electronics, electric circuits, microcomputer systems,
* generation and power transmission, dynamics, closed-loop control and electrical power system protection, electrical machines, switchgear and high voltage systems, numerical methods for solving discretized fields,
* theory of information and coding, wireless communications, telecommunication systems, network and services, methods of building networks and protocols, administration, cryptography and network security,
* communication human to machine, communication machine to machine, energy conversion, construction of mechanical assembly lines.

All students will, with the introductory mandatory subjects of the programme, gain an overall knowledge about the methods of the research work. Thereafter, every student will choose a direction of one or another of a closely concentrated study from an already covered list of professional fields, and with the completion of some of the elective technical subjects, and even better with the intensive work during the seminars as well as individual research work, with the preparation of the PhD thesis, particularly gain following subject-specific skills:

* an in-depth understanding of theoretical and methodical concepts in the chosen narrow field of study,
* excellent and proper understanding of previous accomplishments in the chosen narrow field as well as their relationship to the wider research field,
* ability to use research methods and tools, distinctive to the chosen field of study,
* ability to think independently, self-critically, conceptually, and analytically as well as ability to combine new ideas, methods, and technologies in the chosen field of study,
* ability to plan out research phases and distribute the work properly, which are, for the chosen field of study, necessary in order to reach desired results,
* ability to work-optimally in the chosen field within the frameworks of the research group,
* ability to document and report ideas and achievements, important to the chosen field of study,
* ability to use ideas, ways of thinking, and methods relevant to the chosen narrow field of study while solving new problems within the chosen or other field of electrical engineering.

With the PhD programme, consequently, students will not simply become outstanding experts in the specific chosen fields of electrical engineering, but more so, they will also master the proficiency and skillfulness, which are nowadays essentially basic requirements for a successful research and developing work, specific for those fields.