Programme

The research groups have suitable spaces for the work of the doctoral students next to their research laboratories and in the Departments to which they belong. In addition, the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Bilbao, where the two Departments and the Research Institute are based, has suitable classrooms and seminar rooms for all the activities envisaged in the doctoral program.

There are the following research laboratories: - Research Laboratory of the Applied Electronics Research Team (APERT), 150 m2 in size, located at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Bilbao, which has the appropriate material resources for carrying out its lines of research, Power Electronics and Systems-on-Programmable-Chips. More information at http://det.bi.ehu.es/~apert/apert_cast/donde_estamos.html. - Since 2006, the Institute of Microelectronic Technology (TiM) has owned premises in the Technology Park of Bizkaia in Zamudio, with a total surface area of 1100 m2, of which 700 m2 are set aside for laboratories. In the 700 m2 there is a cleanroom 200 m2 in size, as well as its corresponding services for vacuums, compressed air, gas supply, deionized water and waste neutralization. It has rooms for wet-line, silk-screen printing, lithography, diffusion and vacuum deposition.In addition, the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Bilbao has premises, 200 m2 in size, which have wet-line, silk-screen printing and slide measurement. It has a library and a computer room.- Research Laboratory of the Group of Signal and Communications, 90 m2 in size, located at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Bilbao. It is divided into three areas and includes a meeting room with projection facilities and an interactive board, a laboratory for up to 8 students and a room with seating for up to 6 pre-doctoral interns.- Research Laboratory of the Telematics Research and Engineering Group (I2T), perfectly equipped for research into the lines specifically related to Telematics Engineering.- Laboratory of Optical Communications, 100 m2 in size, located at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Bilbao, with equipment for applications in communications, sensors and basic photonics for visible and near-infrared wavelengths. It also has a tower for the manufacture of plastic optical fibre (40 m2).

As well as the University Central Library, which has about a million volumes and subscriptions to more than 17,000 journals, the Higher Technical School of Engineering has its own library, where doctoral students can view or borrow any of the volumes available at the University or request articles from journals on the University website. The research groups also have small libraries with commonly used journals in their lines of research and a large collection of congress proceedings and doctoral theses from recent years.