Competencies and skills
Doctoral studies must guarantee, as a minimum, the acquisition by the doctoral student of the following basic competencies, as well as those included in the Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education (MECES):
CB11. Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field.
CB12. Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.
CB13. Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
CB14. Ability to carry out critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
CB15. Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
CB16. Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
CB17. The ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with Article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of cross-cutting activities carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in the form of micro-credentials or similar.
CA01. Perform in contexts in which there is little specific information.
CA02. Find the key questions to be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
CA03. Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
CA04. Work both, in a team and autonomously, in an international or multidisciplinary context.
CA05. Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and formulate judgements with limited information.
CA06. Critique and intellectual defense of solutions.
G1. Ability for knowledge transfer, with special emphasis on dissemination within the international scientific community through original contributions.
G2. Deepening the scientific basis applicable in the field of Thermodynamic Engineering.
G3. Knowledge and understanding of a defined set of techniques and strategies developed from a complex and diverse set of experimental techniques.