Engineering Cybernetics (PhD, 3 years)
Engineering Cybernetics
PhD programme (doctoral education)
- PhD Full time, 3 years
- Campus Trondheim
- Admission Application and admission
- Application deadlines Ongoing admissions
Would you like to become a specialist on automatic management of dynamic systems?
The PhD programme in Engineering Cybernetics is intended for students who want to do research on the science of automatic control and supervision of dynamic systems, such as robots, aircraft, marine craft, cars, electrical circuits, biological systems and process plants.
You will be able to specialize in control and systems theory for data-controlled protheses, automatic intelligent robots, unmanned aircraft, live pictures in a mother’s womb and much more.
A broad spectre of research specializations is available, offered by a large and research-intensive faculty that also gives access to international research.
The study program is academically linked to the main area of technical cybernetics, may also include interdisciplinary fields of research in cooperation with other departments where the main profile is in engineering cybernetics.
Engineering cybernetics is the science of automatic control and monitoring of dynamic systems, such as robots, aircraft, marine craft, cars, electrical circuits, biological systems and process plants. Cybernetics is closely linked to automatic regulation technology and systems theory. This includes the principles for feedback control and associated stability analysis, as well as estimation theory and learning from data.
The PhD programme is a three-year programme that is normally based on a five-year master’s degree or some other equal education. The programme consists of a coursework section of 30 ECTS credits and a doctoral thesis.
The PhD education is the highest level of education in Norway. A doctoral degree in Engineering Cybernetics gives innumerable exciting career path opportunities in academia, business and industry and the public sector.
The conditions for admission to a PhD programme are that funding is in place and that a five-year higher education programme, or some other equal education, has been successfully completed. The grade requirement is B or better from master’s programmes and C or better from bachelor’s programmes.
If you have any questions about PhD studies, please get in touch with our counselors. They can answer academic and administrative questions about the PhD studies.