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ABCPhD ProgramArchitecture, Built Environmentand Construction EngineeringDoctorate Program

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Cosa è un dottorato di ricerca?

The faculties of science and humanities start demanding a formal research dissertation for the award of their degree

19° century: german education reform

Doctor of Philosophy (abbreviated as Ph.D.)

Come nasce il Dottorato (PhD)

Thanks to US, German practice becomes a worldwide success!

• US students come in Germany to get a PhD after their Bachelor

• Yale University start a PhD Degree in 1861:– Postgrad Courses + thesis

• From the beginning of 20° century, European and US universities move toward three degrees: Bachelor, Master, Doctorate

• In Italy Dottorato starts in 1985@Polimi

1985 PhD Programs started2001 PhD School started

Il dormiglione (Sleeper), 1973.

In the original US version, she pretends to have a PhD.In the Italian translation, she has only a Master (the discipline il … XXXrated)

What is a PhD, from MATT MIGHT

(Thanks4yourslides, Matt)

Suppose this circle represent the advancing boundary of actual human knowledge …

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/


… And that this is your primary school learning of such an amount of knowledge …



… And this what you gain from your secondary school studies …



… bachelor …


(Thanks4yourslides, Matt)(Thanks4yourslides, Matt)

… master …




… and phd…



Let’s go closer!



A successful Phd is able to go beyond boundaries!


A successful one!

Cosa è un dottorato, dopo due secoli dalla sua “invenzione”?

Una tesi (documento) su un tema specifico

… che produce un avanzamentodelle conoscenze

Che viene valutata tramiteuna discussione pubblica

PhD Programmes in Europe

I cycle3-4 years180-240 ECTS

II cycle1.5-2 years90-120 ECTS

Long cycle5-6 years300-360ECTS

I + II =300/360 ECTS

III cycle3-4 yearsECTS ??

• Inclusion of the doctoral level as the third Education cycle• Importance of research and research training• increase in mobility on the doctoral and the postdoctoral levels

Berlin Communiqué (2003)“Realising the European Higher Education Area”

Map courtesy of Presentation Magazine website www.presentationmagazine.com

PhD School – Polimi

18 Programmes More than 1100 PhD candidates 360 new PhD candidates per year (~ 85% of them earn

grants or research contracts) (~ 1500 applications) ~ 30% International students ~ 200 third-level courses, held by Italian and International

Experts, mostly in English – at least an English track About 4k Doctors in 30 years Less than 1/3 works in university Research in international environment (international

projects, professors, PhD candidates)

Richieste di ammissione

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Enrolled Applicants

Scholarships

Introduzione di requisiti di ammissione più severi

Organizzazione di ABCPhD

• SELEZIONE (semestre zero)• STATO DELL’ARTE e COMPLETAMENTO

FORMAZIONE (primo semestre)• PROGETTO DI RICERCA (secondo semestre)• LAVORO DI RICERCA (terzo-quinto semestre)• FORMALIZZAZIONE TESI (sesto semestre)• DISCUSSIONE TESI

Tre anni di lavoro più un anno tra preparazione e conclusione e valorizzazione

Who is the PhD holder?The ten “doctoral plus”

1. A PhD holder knows how to find answers

If you are trained to identify and solve problems, you are trained for decision-making:• critical thinking • complex problem solving

Isaiah Hankel, “7 Advantages PhDs Have Over Other Job Candidates” www.cheekyscientist.com

http://www.cheekyscientist.com/

2. A PhD holder is not frightenedhe/she learns from failures



3. A PhD holder is not easily frightened


They have been tempered in uncertaintyand fully experienced with negative bosses


4. A PhD holder is taught (tempered) for high level communication


You don’t just regurgitate information, you create it.


5. A PhD holder is taught (tempered) to compete and to cooperate



6. PhD holder’s talent is innovation[progressive&disruptive innovation]

«les docteurs … peuvent apporter “les innovations de rupture” qui feront les emplois et la croissance de demain» M.C. Corbier, LesEcho.fr 12/11/14

7. PhD holders share a valuable set of relations with experts and stakeholders

PhD Doctors are requested to build relations at a global level with the most influential and experts and to join, locally too, with stakeholders and their representative. These networks are less easily ACCESSIBLE by industrial and social parties

8. PhD holders have knowledge, experience and creativity to use it with high profit

9. The three years costs to grow PhD holders are payed back by their three year work

PhD Candidates, during their first year are mostly devoted to understand the questions to face and to complete their knowledge. But they start working ASAP … and the more their are helped in this first task, the quicker their results come … do you have any question?

three year costs may be payed bach before than three year

10. PhD training cost is lowbut it needs medium term programs

Slide by: Lidia Borrell-Damian Director, Research and Innovation, European University Association, 8th EUA-CDE workshop Aix-Marseille, January 2015)

ABC-PhD Program

Who are we?

PhD in the Italian Research SystemValore assoluto del numero di dottorandi nei Paesi analizzati dal rapporto Elsevier2013Si noti

• crescita: USA/CHI/UK• Decrescita: ITA/JPN• Valore assoluto:

UK=2ITADEU=3ITA

Immagini e dati dal rapporto Elsevier 2013

ITALY DOESN’T BELIEVE(yet) IN PhD

PhD School – Polimi

18 Programmes More than 1100 PhD candidates 370 new PhD candidates per year (~ 75% of them earn grants

or research contracts) (~ 1300 applications) ~ 28% International students (33% in 2013-14) ~ 200 third-level courses, held by Italian and International

Experts 3692 PhDs in about 30 years Less than 1/3 works in university Teaching mostly in English – at least an English track Research in international environment (international

projects, professors, PhD candidates)

POLITECNICO BELIEVES IN PhDs

The ABC Department

ABC: Architecture, Built Environmentand Construction Engineering

– 155 Researchers, Associate and Full professors– About 100 “Assistant Researchers” (assegnisti),

“Assistant Professors” and other contracts– About 40 Administrative and Technical Staff– About 100 PhD Students (average num.)

Our department is one of the biggest in Italy, for Construction and Architecture

ICAR05 TRASPORTI

ICAR06 TOPOGRAFIA E CARTOGRAFIA

ICAR07 GEOTECNICA

ICAR08 SCIENZA DELLE COSTRUZIONI

ICAR09 TECNICA DELLE COSTRUZIONI

ICAR10 ARCHITETTURA TECNICA

ICAR11 PRODUZIONE EDILIZIA

ICAR12 TECNOLOGIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA

ICAR14 COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITET. E URBANA

ICAR15 ARCHITETTURA DEL PAESAGGIO

ICAR17 DISEGNO

ICAR18 STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA

ICAR19 RESTAURO

ICAR21 URBANISTICA

ICAR22 ESTIMO

INGIND11 FISICA TECNICA AMBIENTALE

MED42 IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA

SECSP06 ECONOMIA APPLICATA

SECSP07 ECONOMIA AZIENDALE

Social Sciences

Urban Planning

Cost Engineering

Architectural&Urban Design

Building Technologies

StructuralMechanics

Arch. History

Modelling

Building Physics & Services Su

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Built Heritage

The Disciplines of the Department

And one of the most complete, for what concerns Scientific Disciplines for our sector

The Dept. as well as its PhD Program comes from a fusion

ABC-PhD ProgramDoctoral program in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

Salzburg Principles:• N.3 Diversity• N.6 Critical Mass• N.8 Innovative interdisciplinar

General Presentation

ABC-PhD Program has been established in 2012, following the complete reorganization of the area of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering in one only Department.It results as merge of the following four PhD Programs:

– Architectural Composition– Building Systems Engineering– Design and Technologies Exploitation for the Cultural Heritage– Technology and Design for Environment and Building

These four programs have been joined by a group of researchers from a fifth one: the PhD Program in Structural Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering.All these Programs have been separately active since 1990, mainly focussing on one only discipline. Their merge was aimed at optimizing the capability of the Department in facing and solving complex training needs, with a single organizational unit.

ABCPhD

ARCHITECTURALCOMPOSITION

Building System ENGINEERING

Cultural Heritage

Built Environment Technologies

Structural Engineering

We are our PhD Candidates

ABC-PhD: 100 Candidates(un dottorato da cento)

At now, 53 dottorandi …ABC-PhD Program is you (your value is our value)

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ABCPhD research fields

1. Advanced Materials and Innovative Systems for Buildings

2. Energy and Environmental Efficient Built Environment

3. Risk prevention and emergency management

4. Architectural Design and Urban Design

5. Complex Buildings Design, Construction and Management

6. Preservation, Valorisation and Promotion of Built Heritage

7. ICT and Smart Systems in Construction and Planning

8. Built Environment Economics and Management

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Rainwater recovery4+6+1










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8. Built Environment Economics and Management4+2+2










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ABC-PhD: 100 Candidates(un dottorato da cento)

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ABC-PhD

Credits: Disney movie, Monsters University® http://best-wallpaper.net/Disney-movie-Monsters-University_2560x1600.html

http://best-wallpaper.net/Disney-movie-Monsters-University_2560x1600.html

“mission”, “vision” and basic principles

Our Mission

to train future researchers for the extensive field of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering.

Trained to face complex questions in complex contexts

Trained to innovate

Our Vision

Our future researchers are self-sufficient, independent “actors”, able to gain an outstanding position at an international level:

as scientist/academic

as intellectuals

as professionals

as entrepreneurs

Trained to face complex questions in complex contextsand to innovate

Our VisionWe aim to become – in few years – the Italian Point of Reference for training experts in all the most critical subjects related to the sustainable (environmental, economical, social and cultural sustainability) transformation and management of the Built Environment ecosystem

Immagine trovata in internet: http://www.gentside.com/phare/wallpaper

What do we want?

per raggiungere i nostri obiettivi, dobbiamo crescere

Per questo abbiamo bisogno del PaesePerché il Paese dia a noi, dobbiamo

cominciare a dare al Paese

FIRST: to make research offer nearer to (synchronized with) the research demand

DEMAND

OFFER

We train people to research+

The research produced in their training

But we risk that nobody ask for them nor their early products, because no demand is linked to their offer


DEMAND

OFFER

We must go nearer to stakeholders and let (help) them to express their demand to us


DEMAND

OFFER

Moreover, we must be ableto have a bigger demand !!

SECOND: to give our value back to our Country that supports (partly) PhD Programs

We are a 1-HUNDRIED Candidates program.The cost of our PhD Program is 2,0 M€/y and the Country gives us resources only for, about, 1/3 of it.We need to find 2/3 of the budget each year, but, from another point of view, we are able to spend 1/3 of our budget on research and training projects that generate value for us as well as for others (industry, administrations or other entities).

Siamo disponibili a mettere in gioco le nostre (poche) risorse per cofinanziare progetti di interesse comune e per il paese, con un importante potenziale scientifico

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Our Department (ABC) believes (invests) in Doctoral education

L’entità del finanziamento ministerialesi sta drasticamente riducendo

L’entità del cofinanziamento del dottorato da parte

del settore produttivo sta crescendo

THIRD: to give our Candidatesthe best chances for their future

Bjørn T. Asheim (Stavanger/Lund/Oslo, Norway) Universities, regions and doctoral education, EUA-CDE workshop Aix-Marseille, January 2015)

“The expansion of PhD programs implies that the DOCTORS are not only for academia but also for and private and public organisations that need research based knowledge”. This make “… doctoral education … a resource in promoting regional development”

Such a situation is the best way to value all them

Our principles (the ten pillars)of a competitive, attractive, well working PhD Program

1 – Doctoral Candidates are trained producing original research

Research training is through research itself, working with other researchers, mainly in the ABC Department.Candidate’s activity is embedded in our institutional activity (Sistematica Collaborazione all’interno in programmi di ricerca dipartimentali)

[Salzburg Principles, 1 and 2]

2 – PhD candidates are trained as independent (mentored) researchers

Mentors (tutor, supervisor, advisor) are counsellors, trainers, bosses , and their qualities are:

– Credibility– Integrity– Confidence– Cooperation

Mentorship means to involve, to offer opportunities, also for learning from errors and bearing responsibilities.

Pablo E. Fabisch - http://paesmem.stanford.edu/html/proceedings_4.html

[Salzburg Principles, N.4: Early Stage Researchers, and N.5, The crucial role of supervision …]

http://paesmem.stanford.edu/html/proceedings_4.html

http://paesmem.stanford.edu/html/proceedings_4.html

3 – PhD training is tailored on the Candidate and his/her objectives

Each Candidate defines, with the Tutor his/her Research and Training Plan (R&Tplan):– A lot of research activity about a

chosen topic (66-85%).– Some formal training (few), to

gain a common starting level and to fill possible gaps, to get basic skills (e.g. research management and communication) and to be updated

4 – PhD candidates are continuously reviewed and assessed

ABC-PhD: study + work + internal review and external assessment– Mentorship comes together with systematic review (6

Milestones) and independent assessment (by external experts) of candidate’s projects and products

– Results are planned and expected from the first year

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[Salzburg Principles, N.5, The crucial role of supervision and assessment]

5 – Strong relations with other researchers in the global network

There are thousands of researchers in Europe, hundrieds of thousands in the world: the most of them works on similar projects and topics.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd112006s.gif

[Salzburg Principles, N.9, Increasing mobility]

6 – A management system designedto improve our performances

[Salzburg Recommendation 2.7, Quality and accountability]

7 – High level and wide disciplinar spectrum doctoral training offer

The whole PhD School offers a complex and wide set of courses on may topics and disciplines, with the best international teachers and about the most actual research questions.The Program adds a good number of strategic and specialistic courses and research workshops about our main topics

[Salzburg Principles, N.3: Diversity]

8 – An effective recruitment process

1. Open, efficient, transparent and supportive recruitment procedures , internationally comparable and tailored to the advertised positions.2. A selection based on the research of the compromise among youngers potential, personal motivation and proved competencies.

[Salzburg Recommendation 2.2, Recruitment, admission and status]

9 – Publishing PhD (but not too much)

PhD Candidates are directly involved in active research. Their average number of peer-reviewed publications during the PhD is about 2,0. We aim to grow a lot in the future: not a lot in number, in quality.

Alternative to publication: PATENT!

[Salzburg Principles, N.4: Doctoral Candidates as early stage researchers.]

[Salzburg Reccomendation 2.4, The outcome of their research must be original and suitable for dissemination within the scientific community]

10 – Strong relation with stakeholdersCandidate’s activity is embedded in the institutional activity of the ABC Department, that is defined in a strong relation with stakeholders. Moreover, Candidates are strongly encouraged to stay in relation with stakeholders …

EC Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training in Europe: 5. Exposure to industry and Interface with the labour market

10 – Strong relation with stakeholdersCandidate’s activity is embedded in the institutional activity of the ABC Department, that is defined in a strong relation with stakeholders. Moreover, Candidates are strongly encouraged to stay in relation with stakeholders …

Image from Cheeky Scientist Association, from the post “How To Transition From Academia Into Business”http://cheekyscientist.com/phd-jobs/

http://cheekyscientist.com/phd-jobs/

http://cheekyscientist.com/phd-jobs/

… to open the door and look around

Published by AAAS, ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER

… to open the door and look around

… as soon as possible, before ending your PhD and your scholarship!

WE ARE A GREAT STRUCTURE,with a rich scientific legacyWE WANT to be competitiveand attractive (investors and best students)WE WANT to be (to give back)a value for our COUNTRY

In conclusion:

EC Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training in EU: 6. Attractiveness of the research profession

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