Courses
Doctoral courses at BTH
The following doctoral courses are open for application, planned at BTH or available at collaborating universities and partners.
Courses - Spring 2023
Courses - Fall 2023
Academic Writing, 7.5 hp
Language: English
Course type: Intensive, on campus
Course start: summer 2023 (either at the start of June or at the end of August)
Latest registration: 2023-01-31
Contact for registration: Niklas.Lavesson@bth.se
Description: The aim of the course is to increase the knowledge and practical skills of writing and communicating academic texts, such as: reports, theses, conference papers, and journal articles. In addition, the course includes a module on writing and communicating popular scientific texts. The course will be held on campus during on selected week. The pace is 50 % (every other day). Prerequisite assignments will be sent out three months before the course start. These assignments must be completed and submitted one month before course start. A post hoc assignment, a report to be written, should be submitted within three months after the intensive course ends.
Data Analysis and Visualization for Engineers and Scientists, 7.5 hp
Language: English
Course type: Intensive, on campus
Course start: summer 2023 (either at the start of June or at the end of August)
Latest registration: 2023-01-31
Contact for registration: Niklas.Lavesson@bth.se
Description: The aim of the course is to increase the knowledge and practical skills of performing data collection, processing, transformation, analysis, and visualization. The course will be held on campus during on selected week. The pace is 50 % (every other day). Prerequisite practical assignments will be sent out three months before the course start. These assignments must be completed and submitted one month before course start. A post hoc assignment, a report to be written, should be submitted within three months after the intensive course ends.
Courses at other universities
- NORDTEK (The technical Universities in the Nordic countries publish regular and upcoming doctoral courses here)
- Kunskapsförmedlingen (A collaboration between universities, institutes and industry in product development publish regular and upcoming doctoral courses here)
Planned general courses
Even year
Spring
- Higher Education Pedagogy Project (7,5)
- Reading and Reviewing Research Papers (5)
- Introduction to Phd Education (3)
- Scientific Communication (3)
Fall
- Higher Education Pedagogy Basic (7,5)
- Philosophy and Methodology of Applied Sciences (7,5)
- Information Retrieval for Phd Students (3)
- Sustainability (3)
Odd year
Spring
- Higher Education Pedagogy Project (7,5)
- Introduction to Phd Education (3)
- Industry-academia collaboration (3)
- Research Funding (3)
Fall
- Higher Education Pedagogy Basic (7,5)
- Research Ethics (3)
- Scientific Writing (7.5)
- Information Retrieval for Phd Students (3)
Quality of doctoral courses
Krzysztof Wnuk, deputy Dean for the Faculty of Computing, is assigned to improve the quality of the doctoral education at BTH during his term of office. For questions regarding the planning of general doctoral education courses at BTH, please contact Krzysztof Wnuk.
The goal is to offer 40 ECTS in general courses relevant to all doctoral students at BTH. These 40 ECTS are delivered in 2-year cycle where each of the courses is given every second year.
Archived courses
| COURSE NAME | FIELD | CREDITS |
|---|---|---|
| Industry-Academia Co-production | General for BTH | 3 ECTS |
| Reading and Reviewing Research Papers, Preparing Rejoinders | General for BTH | 5 ECTS |
| Philosophy and Methodology of Applied Sciences | General BTH | 7,5 ECTS |
| Scientific Communication I | General – scientific communication | 1 ECTS |
| Scientific Communication II | General – scientific communication | 1 ECTS |
| Research Ethics | General – research ethics | 3 ECTS |
| Sustainability in Engineering Product Development | Product development | 20 ECTS |
| Modeling Simulation and Optimization in the Engineering Product Development Process | Product development | 5 ECTS |
| Course in Research Funding | General – external funding | 2 ECTS |
| Research Ethics in Computing and Engineering | General – research ethics | 3 ECTS |
| Computer Vision by Learning | Computer Science |
7,5 (3,5 + 4) ECTS
|
| Modern Methods of Statistical Analysis and Estimation | Statistics | 7,5 |
Register courses
Examination
For each course there is a course examiner who determines when a student has completed the parts of the course and determines the student’s grade on the course. However, it is always the doctoral student’s appointed examiner who formally decides whether a doctoral student can be credited with a certain course in the doctoral education, as well as how many credits the course gives.
Registration
When a course has been completed, it must be registered in Ladok. The registration is made by research officer at BTH.
For a course to be registered, you need:
- Notice from the doctoral student’s examiner to the research officer that the course should be registered. This can be done via email to fo.adm@bth.se.
- Course description, course certificate or equivalent. Attach the necessary documentation of the content of the course and that the doctoral student has passed the course.