Become a PhD-student at Aalborg University
The Department of Civil Engineering invites all MasterStudents to a seminar about the PhD-program
Aalborg University
Department of Civil Engineering
Room – F108
Friday the 27th of February 13-14
Program…
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What is a PhD-degree ? Requirements and Motivation
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Eco-Hydrological Modelling of Stream Valleys
PhD-student vs. Consulting Engineer
Henrik Stensgaard Toft, PhD-student, Division of Structural Mechanics.
Ole Munch Johansen, PhD-student, Division of Water and Soil.
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Zero Emission Building Concepts
Why PhD-student ?
Anna Joanna Marszal, PhD-student, Division of Architectural Engineering.
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Airfoils in Turbulent Inflow
Visit at Chalmers University
Lasse Gilling, PhD-student, Division of Structural Mechanics.
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PhD-Positions at the Department in 2009
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Questions…
Peter Frigaard, Head of Department.
What is a PhD – degree ?
Academic Degree for people who have
completed a Research Education
What is a PhD-degree ?
1. Academic Research Project – PhD thesis
2. Collaboration with another Research Institution (Typical abroad)
3. Course activities – 30 ECTS (6 months)
4. Communication of scientific knowledge (6 months)
Total: 3 years
Academic Research Project – PhD thesis
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Research Project within your Academic Field.
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Writing of Papers for International Journal and Conferences.
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PhD thesis - Collection of Scientific Papers with a joint introduction.
• 2-3 Conference papers per year
• 1-4 Journal papers
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Often cooperation with one or several partners from the industry.
Collaboration with another Research Institution
• More than 50 % of the PhD students are abroad for 3-6 months
Others
Italy
France
Norway
Australia
Sweden
Netherlands
Canada
USA
Germany
U.K.
Course Activities – 30 ECTS
“The Doctoral School of Engineering, Science and Medicine”
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Joint Courses – General Courses:
• Writing and Reviewing Scientific Papers.
• Library information Management.
• Professional Communication.
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Project Oriented Courses
• Courses specifically related to your PhD-project.
• National / International
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Courses at Civil Engineering in 2009
• Experimental Testing for Wave Energy Utilisation.
• Numerical Modelling of Non-linear Material Behaviour.
• Sustainable Building and Constructions – The zero Energy/Emission Building
Concept.
Communication of Scientific Knowledge
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Publish in International Journals.
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Present your Work at International Conferences.
Communication of Scientific Knowledge (Teaching)
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Supervision
• Bachelor students
• Master students – within your research field
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Lectures
• Bachelor students
• Master students – within your research field
Industrial PhD
Same requirements as for “normal” PhDs but employed in a private
company.
Differences:
• Shorter distances from research to practice
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No teaching, but the same amount of hours must be used for
communication (teaching, presentations, conferences)
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Mandatory 5 ECTS Business course including a business report
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2 x Offices, 2 x network, 2 x feedback, 2 x …
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Time sharing 50/50 between company and university
Industrial PhD
Further information: www.erhvervsphd.dk
Why take a PhD ?
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You really want to !
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You will boost your career within Research and Development !
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You are still interested in math, physics etc. and good at it !
Why take a PhD ?
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You want an interesting and independent job !
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Schedule your own Time ! And the most flexible job you can get !
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Work in a YOUNG and INTERNATIONAL environment
Why take a PhD ?
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Danish Government – 2.400 enrolled PhD-students in 2010
Why take a PhD ?
• PhD – Aalborg University: 27.252 DKK (+holiday pay) (2008)
• Private Consulting Engineer – Aalborg: 29-32.000 DKK (2008)
• Over life persons with a PhD earns more money
Male 40-49
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Why take a PhD ?
PhD – Seminar 2008:
• Smaller Risk for Unemployment – We don’t know what the future brings!
Danmarks statistik 2005
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Employed
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PhD
Master
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Employee at Department of Civil Engineering
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Coffee, bread and fruit every day
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Christmas Lunch
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Northern Team Challenge
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Uni-Fitness, Health initiative, Football…
Further Information:
Aalborg University
(Doctoral School)
PhD – network (PAU)
www.aau.dk/fak-tekn/phd/
www.pau.aau.dk
FACEBOOK
Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Why did i do a PhD ? (3.401 members)
Ecohydrological modelling of Stream Valleys
PhD-student vs. Consulting Engineer
Ole Munch Johansen
PhD Student – Aalborg University
Department of Civil Engineering, division of Water and Soil
How was I convinced to do a PhD study?
Master Thesis: “Hydrological modelling of a vulnerable habitat” (June 2007)
• Supervisor: Jacob Birk Jensen, Michael Rasmussen
At this moment I was more than ready to finish my study and get a
regular job!
Employed at NIRAS A/S september 1st 2007 (but the intention was to work
towards a PhD study)
February 1st 2008 : I got the PhD project, financed by NIRAS (1/6), FIVA (1/3),
AAU (1/2)
Tasks at NIRAS:
• Groundwater models for water supply companies in northern Jutland
• Working with databases – handling large amounts of data
• Working with GIS
• Monitoring groundwater levels in the field
• Collecting samples at polluted soil sites
Consulting Engineer vs. PhD-student at AAU
The job is defined by the wishes of
the customers
The project is defined by you and
your supervisors
The budget and the amount of time
to put into the each task is defined by
the customers
You define what would be interesting
and worth spending your time on
Ours spend / Ours paid by customer
Courses 30 ects, Teaching 240
ours/Year
Ecohydrological modelling of Stream Valleys
Objectives
The focus in this PhD project is on the hydrological processes that
influence the ecological state of wetland ecosystems in stream valleys
• Methods for data collection
• Prediction of response to hydrological changes – hydrological
modelling (different scales, processes using collected data)
Ecohydrological modelling of Stream Valleys
Integrated Numerical modelling
(uz, sz, surface flow, evapotranspiration)
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Data collection
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Water level monitoring
Geological description
Water samples
Discharge estimates
Tracers (temp, pH, cond)
Monitoring plant communities
Climate stations
Slugtests
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PhD – student
Why PhD – student?
Bolig+ Zero Emission Building Concept
Anna Joanna Marszal
Why Zero Energy/Emission Buildings ?
Issues:
• Fossil fuels sources are ‘running out’
• CO2 concentration in atmosphere is
constantly rising
• Ecological footprint of humanity is still
growing
Buildings accounts for:
- 40% of final energy use in the World1
- 24% of greenhouse gas emission1
1IEA statistics
Environmental Tech. Center, USA
Beddington Zero Energy Development, UK
Riverdale NetZero Project, Canada
Lack of common
understanding & definition !!!
What opportunities offers you PhD?
Official reasons
• to pursue your own specialist interests.
• to become an expert in a particular field
• to collaborate with and learn from the international, worldwide
known experts
• to produce something unique and original
What opportunities offers you PhD?
Social reasons:
• a lot of travelling
• a chance to spend 3-6 months a broad – and you are choosing the
country
• not only collaboration with ‘smart heads’ but also a chance to meet
them in private
• a chance to make international friends
• you are your own boss
Questions?
PhD study
Airfoils in Turbulent Inflow
Lasse Gilling
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About myself and the project
M.Sc. in Structural Mechanics (Konstruktion): June 2006
Ph.D. study started October 2006
Deadline: October this year
Title:
Airfoils in Turbulent Inflow
Purpose:
Investigate the influence of
resolving the turbulence
in airfoil simulations (CFD)
Supervisor:
Niels N. Sørensen (Risø-DTU)
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Outline of the PhD
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Generate ”synthetic”
turbulence
Impose resolved
turbulence on an airfoil
simulation
Reduce computational
costs
• Very large
computational time
~2-10 days @ 80
cpu’s
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Outline of the PhD
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Generate ”synthetic”
turbulence
Impose resolved
turbulence on an airfoil
simulation
Reduce computational
costs
• Very large
computational time
~2-10 days @ 80
cpu’s
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Outline of the PhD
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Generate ”synthetic”
turbulence
Impose resolved
turbulence on an airfoil
simulation
Reduce computational
costs
• Very large
computational time
~2-10 days @ 80
cpu’s
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Some results
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Fluctuations in lift on an
airfoil
• Low seapration:
High lift
• Large separation:
Low lift
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Why I chose to do a PhD
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I like to study and to educate myself
• Learn from some of the top researchers of the world
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I want to work with research or development
• (e.g. in the wind turbine industry)
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See the world: Courses, conferences and the extended visit abroad
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Going abroad
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Three months visit at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola during the fall of 2008
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To get inputs from Prof. Lars Davidson
• Lars: Knows much about the method
• Niels: Knows much about the application
We wrote a paper together, which I presented at a conference in Florida
last month
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Living in another country – A lifetime experience
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Positions at Department of Civil Engineering
in 2009
10 selected ongoing Ph.D. projects out of 26.
The full list can be seen on the pin-up board in the C-building or on the web:
www.civil.aau.dk
Søren Andersen: Material-point Method for Geotechnical Engineering.
Anne Kirkegaard Bejder: Wood House of the Future.
Camilla Brunsgaard: Concepts of Passive Houses in Denmark.
Peres Akrawi Hartvig: Time Development of Scour Around Offshore Monopiles.
Kristian Holm-Jørgensen: Nonlinear Multibody Dynamics of Wind Turbines.
Claus Köser: Sealing Material of Groundwater Wells.
Lucia Margheritini: Overtopping wave energy converters: applications and optimization
of power capture.
Mahdi Teimouri Sichani: Estimation of Extreme Responses of Wind Turbines under
Normal Operations by Means of Controlled Monte Carlo.
Kristian Birch Sørensen: Linking Virtual Models with Physical Objects in Construction.
Henrik Stensgaard Toft: Probabilistic Design of Wind Turbines.
2009
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Increased focus on the number of new Ph.D students.
Target for Department ofCivil Engineering 10.2 new students
Approx. 20% of all Candidates expected to take a Ph.D here in Aalborg or
at another university
The department aims at 4-8 Danish and 6-8 forign students
We expect to recruit among the 50% theoretically best students
The department expect to propose approx. 15 positions from the list I
will present on the next slides.
New Ph.D. projects 2009 1# 6
Title: Reliability-based operation and maintenance of offshore wind turbines
Start: August 1, 2009
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
External participants: DONG Energy
Supervisor: John Dalsgaard Sørensen
1 of 4 PhD studies within the project: ‘Reliability-based analysis applied for reduction of
cost of energy for offshore wind turbines’
Title: Reliability of wind turbine components
Start: Autumn 2009
Financing: Norwegian Research Council
External participants: University of Stavanger, StatoilHydro, Statkraft, Det norske
Veritas (DnV), …
Supervisor: John Dalsgaard Sørensen
1 of approx 20 PhD studies within the project: ‘Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind
Energy (NORCOWE)’
New Ph.D. projects 2009 2 # 6
Title: Composite shell foundations made of high-tension concrete
and steel sheets
Start: May 1, 2009 (or later)
Financing: Co-financed by AAU / MBD / FUU
External participants: MBD Offshore Power
Supervisor: Lars Andersen
Title: Finite-element based computational models of stratified soil
with random heterogeneity
Start: August 1, 2009
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
External participants: DONG Energy
Supervisor: Lars Andersen
1 of 4 PhD studies within the project: ‘Reliability-based analysis applied for
reduction of cost of energy for offshore wind turbines’
New Ph.D. projects 2009 3 # 6
Title: Formulation of probabilistic models of stratified soil and their
calibration by field tests
Start: August 1, 2009
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
External participants: DONG Energy
Supervisor: Lars Bo Ibsen
1 of 4 PhD studies within the project: ‘Reliability-based analysis applied for
reduction of cost of energy for offshore wind turbines’
Title: Application of X-band and C-band Radar for improved
Warnings of Extreme Rain over Cities
Start: Summer, 2009
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
Supervisor: Michael R. Rasmussen
1 of 2 PhD studies within the project:
New Ph.D. projects 2009 4 # 6
Title: Use of Sensors in Sewer Systems for Calibration of Wheather
Radar
Start: Summer, 2009
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
Supervisor: Michael R. Rasmussen
1 of 2 PhD studies within the project:
Title: Optimering af processystemer ved integration af biologiske og
kemiske processer i industrielle CFD koder.
Start: Late 2009
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
Supervisor: Michael R. Rasmussen
Title: Modelling Aqua Culture Plants with CFD
Start: Late, 2009 or early 2010
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
Supervisor: Michael R. Rasmussen
New Ph.D. projects 2009 5 # 6
Title: Nye metoder til analyse og spredning af lugtstoffer fra
miljøtekniske anlæg
Start: ??
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
Supervisor: Michael R. Rasmussen
Title: Multibody Analysis of Wind Turbines for System Identification
and Damage Detection
Start: Summer, 2009
Financing: EU
Supervisor: Søren R.K. Nielsen
Title: Technical and Economical Assessment of Wave Energy
Devices
Start: Late, 2009 or early 2010
Financing: PSO / DONG
Supervisor: Jens Peter Kofoed
New Ph.D. projects 2009 6 # 6
Title: Real Sea Testing of Wave Energy Devices based on the
Overtopping Principle
Start: Late, 2009
Financing: Company: Wave Energy
Supervisor: Jens Peter Kofoed
Title: Zero Emission Buildings (x 4)
Start: 4 projects to be started during the period summer 2009 to late, 2010
Financing: Danish Strategic Research Council
Supervisor: Per Heiselberg
Title: IT at the Construction Site
Start: Summer 2009
Financing: AaU / ??
Supervisor: Kjeld Svidt