Engineering - Electrical & Electronic Engineering - Structured

Students on this programme are offered disciplinary or dissertation specific modules, as well as generic and transferable skills designed to meet the needs of an employment market that is wider than academia.

PhD—high Honours standard in the primary degree.

PhD (full-time, four years); applications are made online via the University of Galway Postgraduate Applications System.



New entrants may register for the programme from September to March each year



The thesis remains central to the award of the PhD and is weighted at 330 ECTs.



Students select appropriate skills modules in consultation with their Supervisor and/or Postgraduate Research Committee as follows: At least 10 ECTs in two of the three skills categories, and an overall total of at least 30 ECTs



Skills Categories: (i) Problem Based Learning; (ii) Publication/Dissemination; (iii) Formal Training (from a range of Discipline-specific, Interdisciplinary and Generic modules)

The Structured PhD, full-time, is a 4-year programme.

Current research projects–


Biomedical Engineering

Exercise Engineering

Ambient assisted Living

Biomedical Electronics

Rehabilitation Engineering

Cardiovascular Electronics

Medical Imaging

Automotive Electronics

Diagnostic & Therapeutic Engineering for Cancer

Communications

Power Electronics

Energy Conversion

Bio-inspired Electronics

Reconfigurable Computing

Embedded Systems

Web Technologies


www.eee.nuigalway.ie/Research/index.html