DOCTORAL DEGREE STUDY PROGRAMME
MATHEMATICS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

The study in this program is subjected to tuition fees charged.

The doctoral degree programme focuses on the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills enabling the successful mathematical and computational modelling of challenging problems motivated mainly by research related to civil engineering.

Features

  • The content of studies strives to be forthcoming for the graduates interested in the deeper and broader mathematical fundamentals necessary for the understanding, construction and solution of advanced mathematical models formulated primarily in the language of ordinary differential equations, but mainly partial differential equations.
  • The resulting models, however, need not be strictly limited to differential equations and their systems, but can lead to further work with them– e.g. to assess the impact of uncertainties in input data, optimize the model’s behaviour or identify its parameters. For this reason, students are trained in statistical and probabilistic approaches, optimization and other relevant methods.
  • Students are also acquainted with both numerical methods for solving mathematical problems in the respective framework as well as appropriate software tools for computer modelling, and are guided to successfully use these tools in working on their dissertation topic.
  • Part of the study is gaining knowledge from professional literature written in foreign languages and involvement in the life of the professional community in the form of conference presentations and publishing professional articles in English.

MATHEMATICS FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

The doctoral degree programme builds on the assumption that no advanced research can be attempted without the application of mathematical methods and the results obtained through this research cannot be correctly communicated without their proper understanding. Moreover, research itself leads to the study of increasingly more demanding models; allow us to mention just a few from civil engineering: coupled problems (e.g. nonlinear heat and moisture transport), problems with hysteresis operators (e.g. to describe flow in porous media), the Bayesian approach to problems with random data, fast solutions of homogenization problems, etc.

In the upcoming period, characterized, among other things, by dynamic changes, employees and entrepreneurs alike will be required to attain a considerable degree of flexibility and readiness to change their work focus or even their field of work. As the MCE doctoral degree study programme also takes this tendency into account – the graduates will accordingly acquire skills in mathematics and computer modelling that are generally applicable, because many mathematical models used in different specializations speak the same mathematical language.

PROGRAMME COURSES
(in Czech)
DISSERTATION TOPICS
(in Czech)

CAREER PROSPECTS

The graduates of the MCE programme will find employment as, e.g.:

  • scientists and researchers engaged in fundamental and applied research in technical and physical branches of civil engineering at universities and institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic;
  • assistant professors at technical universities;
  • in the public and private sector as professionals involved in the development of computer models or their applications.

Contact

GUARANTOR AND BRANCH BOARD CHAIR OF THE DOCTORAL DEGREE STUDY PROGRAMME OF
MATHEMATICS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

doc. RNDr. Jozef Bobok, CSc.

Responsible: prof. Dr. Ing. Bořek Patzák

Czech Technical University in Prague
Faculty of Civil Engineering

Thákurova 7/2077                 
166 29 Praha 6 – Dejvice

Czech Technical University in Prague
Faculty of Civil Engineering

Thákurova 7/2077                 
166 29 Praha 6 – Dejvice

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