Activities for additional student background
The program belongs to the fields of Ph-D in Industrial technology of the Escuela Internacional de Doctorado of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid where several background improvement activities. are offered.
Moreover, Review Seminars (Jornadas Anuales) are held every year where the students in the program are called to present the advances in their research. The purpose of these seminars is, i.a., to retrieve feedback on the advances achieved and to strengthen contact with faculty and other students. The seminars are also an opportunity to discuss possible improvements on the program.
International Agreements
La UPM leads the EELISA- European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance, which includes nine high education institutions of seven countries: École des Ponts Paritech (France); FAU (Germany); ITÜ (Turkey); Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy); Sant Anna (Italy); UPB (Romania); PSL (France); Muegyetem (Hungary); UPM (Spain).
There also exists a specific agreement for collaboartion, exchange of students, and faculty, as well as for research visiting periods between UPM and Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN, Natal, Brazil).
Networking
Industrial Engineering is a field of knowledge experiencing a strong expansion and very energetic scientific development. The faculty working in the field in Spain created in 2000 the Association for the Development of Industrial Engineering «Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Ingeniería de Organización», ADINGOR in Spanish. The most noteworthy activity of ADINGOR is to organize a conference which, although initially only national, has turned international since 2007. Th faculty in ETSII-UPM had an important role in the creation and development of ADINGOR and were in charge of the 2007 and 2020 editions of the conference which is held each year..
Since some years ago, ADINGOR has extended its activity abroad, thus getting to sign agreements with different similar European and Latín American institutions, within which one may highlight Asociación Brasileña de Ingeniería de Producción (ABEPRO), with which there exists already a consolidated relationship and collaboration in graduate studies and research. Industrial Engineering is a distinct area of knowledge of the three most important polytechnical universities in Spain, Madrid, Catalonia and Valencia. This shows clearly the importance that these universities are giving to generating knowledge (research) in this area.
Ph-D in Industrial Engineering - RD 99/2011 Mobility schemas
It is considered of great interest that a Ph-D student visits a foreign research center akin to this/her research, preferably from his second year in the program, working in the experimental, analysis, processing and drawing of conclusions stages of his/her research . The major interest of such an activity lies in the possibility offered to the student of comparing his/her results with those of other researchers, which may provide a critical spirited albeit constructive assessment of the work being carried out.
The academic visiting period mentioned above is compulsory for those students intending to obtain the so-called International Merit Recognition Mención Internacional, with a minimal visit of three months. Full-time enlisted students will be more easily able to do it, given that they may stay for three consecutive months, (depending on funding), while the part-time enlisted ones will be encouraged to do it along several time periods, depending on their availability. These visits to other research centers are scheduled for after the dissertation period has reached its midpoint, given that, if they take place at the beginning, they could turn out less profitable. At the end of the visit, the student should provide a report that covers the results obtained all along . Detailed information should be provided on his/her activity in the Annual Report (Research Plan) of the student, so that the advisor can endorse his/her performance and the Committee may assess the contribution of the activity to his/her research path.
In general these academic visits may take place in those centers with which the advisor is connected. The participation of UPM in European consortiums and networks facilitates carrying out these visits.
The funding of such activities stems from the research projects in which faculty take part and of the mobility programs from ETSII, UPM , the Madrid Autonomous Region government and the Federal Ministry, in some cases, one may use funding from the host center, which makes this activity significantly more feasible.
Invited scholars
The DIO Ph-D program is linked to many national and foreign institutions by means of which professors may be invited to present seminars or discuss the research projects with the students of the program. A list of academics which have collaborated in the dissertations or in increasing the students background, is given as illustration as follows:
- Giovanni Mummolo (Politecnico di Bari)
- Tolga Bektas (University of Liverpook)
- Du Sichen (KTH)
- Edgar Blanco (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Rommert Dekker (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
- Luk van Wassenhove (INSEAD)
- Lumbidi Kupanhy (University of Wakayama)
- Pierre Dejax (École de Mines de Nantes)
- Simme Douwe Flapper (Eindhoven University of Technology)
- Ana Paula Barbosa Povoa (Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa)
- Erwin van der Laan (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
- Marisa de Brito (Delft University of Technology)
- Cárlos Mëndez (Universidad Nacional del Litoral)
- Tolga Bektas (Southampton University)
- Hendrik Van Landeghe (Gentt Univesity)
- Francisco Saldanha da Gama (Univerisidad de Lisboa)
- Bruno Lacarrière (École des Mines de Nantes)
- Ana Paula Lisboa Sohn (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
- Sergio Arancibia (Universidad Central de Venezuela)
- Melanie Fritz (Universidad de Bonn)
- Henry Izquierdo (UNEG, Guayana, Venezuela)
- Wendy Purcell (Universidad de Harvard)
- Leda Stott (Universidad de Edimburgo)
