The students of the Doctoral Program must accredit in the first two years obtaining 9 ECTS in transversal training courses. Annually, the Academic Committee will make public the offer of these courses well in advance.
The courses offered for the 2021/2022 academic year are the following:
Introduction to research (3 ECTS)
- Investigation methodology
- Bibliographical sources
- Dissemination and publication of results
- Protection of results and intellectual property
- Research in engineering: relations with companies
- The Galician, Spanish and European R + D + i system
- Technology transfer to companies
Docents: Juan María Pou Saracho, José Carlos Prado Prado
Computer tools for research (3 ECTS)
- Problem analysis
- Modeling and representation of data
- C programming
- Communication with external devices
- Design of graphical interfaces with Java
Docents: Joaquín López Fernández, Amador Rodríguez Diéguez
Advanced statistical methods for scientific-technical research (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to experimental analysis
- Theory of errors in experimentation
- Factorial design of experiments
- Non-factorial design of experiments
- Variance analysis
- Linear regression
- Optimization of experimental results
Docent: María Gloria Fiestras Janeiro