[APDIO] Call for Applications: Doctoral Program in Advanced Engineering Systems for Industry (AESI) - 4th September 2016

["Susana Relvas" <susana.relvas@tecnico.ulisboa.pt>]

The doctoral program in Advanced Engineering Systems for Industry (AESI) is promoted by the University of Minho in cooperation with Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal and is co-funded by the Portuguese Government under the PD-F Program from the from Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). It is specially targeted for preparing PhDs students for an advanced engineering career in industry.

The AESI doctoral program is devoted to train PhD students to work in industry with the role of leading innovation and technological development in advanced engineering systems for industrial organizations, namely in:

• manufacturing systems and logistics;
• information and software systems;
• information visualization and CAD systems;
• embedded systems and industrial informatics;
• modeling, simulation, and optimization.

The specialization in these engineering topics empowers the AESI students to promote the adoption of worldwide-recognized business excellence and quality reference models in industrial organizations. Thus, AESI students will be skilled to explicitly manage the industrial property, the innovation private strategy, and the organizational projects and change management.

Industry cooperation and affinity with real industry needs is a dominant concern in this doctoral program and all activities are aimed towards reaching application in industrially relevant contexts. Therefore, ambitious framework agreements have been entered with industrial organizations, thus ensuring that specific plans for the exploitation of results are present across the doctoral program activities. Currently, Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal is the main industrial partner of this doctoral program. Other industrial organizations with international scope are planned to integrate this consortium.

The AESI doctoral program was selected for funding under the scope of the extremely competitive call from FCT. A total of 40 FCT scholarships for the first four editions will be awarded to outstanding candidates. Additional scholarships from industrial partners may be awarded for specially selected candidates.

Deadline for the submission of applications: The call is open up to September 4th, 2016.

See more detailed information in: http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/phd-aesi/

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Best regards
  Ricardo J. Machado