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Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering

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Academic Profile and Competencies

This doctoral program has been designed to train researchers within the field of Civil Engineering.

It provides the following competencies:

A systematic comprehension of a particular field of study as well as a thorough knowledge of its related skills and methods.
Ability to conceive, design or model, put in practice or choose a particular process of researching.
Ability to contribute to the development at the frontiers of the knowledge addressing an original research.
Ability to synthetize, analyze or assess critically new complex ideas.
Ability to communicate and explain advanced ideas or knowledge for the academic community or for Society.
Ability to promote scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress in a based knowledge Society, either in academic or professional environments.

The doctoral program provides additional abilities and skills:

To work in contexts where there is little specific information.
To find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.
o design, create, develop and undertake new and innovative projects in a particular field of knowledge.
To work either within a team or individually in an international or multidisciplinary context.
To integrate different knowledge, cope with complexity and make judgments from limited or scarce information.
To either criticize or support intellectual proposals.

Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program

Jorge Rodríguez Hernández
César Otero González
Juan Antonio Polanco Madrazo
Jorge Castro González
José Luis Moura Berodia
Borja Alonso Oreña
Ester González González (Secretaria)

General Lines of research in the Doctoral Program

Line 1. DESIGN, PROJECT, PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

Construction and sustainable construction.
Application of systems of protection and stabilization of slopes in civil works.
Construction of systems for the use of alternative energy.
CAD/CAE, geometric modelling, designing and planning in civil engineering.
Civil engineering graphics technology.
Cartography and photogrammetry in civil engineering.
Environmental hidraulics

Line 2. TERRAIN, MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

Geotechnics.
Structural integrity assessment in components and structures.
Civil engineering structures.
Civil engineering materials.
Evaluation of the mechanical properties of biomaterials.
Study of cracking induced by the environment.
Design and characterization of the elements of the superestructure in railroad tracks.
Design of concrete with special features.
Applied Geology

Line 3. TRANSPORT ENGINEERING, MOBILITY, URBAN AND TERRITORIAL PLANNING.

Traffic prediction models
Reliability in civil engineering
Mathematical and statistical modeling in civil engineering
Mathematical calculation and computing methods in civil engineering
Urban planning
Models for planning transportation systems
Modeling and optimization transportation networks
Transport demand models
Railway engineering and exploitation

Research groups involved in the program

All individual researchers and research groups of the Civil Engineering School of Santander can participate in this doctoral program, always under the conditions expressed in the national regulation (RD 99/2011).

The program is open and welcomes as well the collaboration and participation of other national or foreigner people and organizations, according to the usual collaboration ways: shared supervision, stays, visits, etc.

Research Projects

In the last five years, the research activity on civil engineering of the groups or departments involved in this program reaches an amount of 181 projects, distributed as follows:

9 projects funded by UE.
47 projects funded by the Spanish national plan of R&D.
125 projects funded by private contracts signed with companies or public administration.

Languages of the Doctoral Program

Spanish and English.

Regime of dedication

Full time or part time

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