{"id":1460,"date":"2021-06-12T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newdev.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/?page_id=1460"},"modified":"2021-06-12T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T15:02:23","slug":"general-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/programmes-of-study\/ph-d-programmes\/general-information\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"General Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Doctor of Philosophy Degrees (Ph.D.)<\/strong><br \/>\nA postgraduate student becomes a candidate for a Ph.D. degree after being admitted to the Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering Ph.D. program, and successfully taking the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination of the Department. For the fulfillment of a Ph.D. degree the requirements are:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Successful completion of at least 240 ECTS units of postgraduate level coursework and research work.<\/li>\n<li>Attendance of the Postgraduate Seminar Series.<\/li>\n<li>Passing the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination.<\/li>\n<li>Completing at least one semester of Teaching Assistantship.<\/li>\n<li>Approval of the Dissertation Proposal, submitted and presented by the student.<\/li>\n<li>Successful defense of the Doctoral Dissertation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>According to University regulations, the minimum time period for completing a Ph.D. degree is three academic years. The maximum time period for completing a Ph.D. degree is eight academic years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research<\/strong><br \/>\nResearch in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering currently focuses on the following areas:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Power and Renewables<\/li>\n<li>Telecommunication Systems and Networks<\/li>\n<li>Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Waves and Optics<\/li>\n<li>Intelligent Systems and Control<\/li>\n<li>Instrumentation, Sensors and Nanotechnology<\/li>\n<li>Digital Hardware Design and Embedded Systems<\/li>\n<li>Electronics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>For more information, visit the Faculty page for the research interests and activities of each faculty member. The detailed Postgraduate Guide can be downloaded here.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor of Philosophy Degrees (Ph.D.) A postgraduate student becomes a candidate for a Ph.D. degree after being admitted to the Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering Ph.D.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":754,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 02:03:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/revisions\/1461"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}