UniversidaddeCádiz

A dozen students already develop their research projects in preferential innovation areas of the company in the Bay of Cádiz

The rector of the University of Cádiz, Eduardo González Mazo, together with the deputy to the director of the Navantia Bahía de Cádiz Shipyard, Francisco Abad, the Director of Systems Operations of Navantia, Francisco López, and the Vice Chancellor of Technology Transfer and Innovation, Javier Pérez , have presided over the act of presentation of UCA doctoral thesis program in the auditorium of the Higher School of Engineering at the Campus of Puerto Real. This initiative has enabled a total of 12 doctoral students from the University of Cádiz to develop their research projects in Navantia’s preferred innovation areas, within a collaborative university-company formula for carrying out unprecedented industrial doctoral theses within the Spanish university system

Nine of these projects already underway with Navantia are the result of this collaborative policy. To which we must add three additional theses linked to talent attraction programs that, together with the three theses in development with the auxiliary industry of Navantia, would raise to 15 the projects initiated.

Specifically, the themes and objects of study of these projects are: Unmanned surface marine vehicles, Development of virtual models for the processes of a shipyard for the construction of large vessels, Redesign of a shipyard around Industry 4.0; Verification and Validation of Software for Naval Systems; Hybrid laser welding of butt joints of naval steel plates in large thicknesses; Development of materials and technologies for additive manufacturing in large format for the naval sector; In addition to Automation and robotization of processes of a naval shipyard, Development of virtual models for the processes of a shipyard specialized in the construction of light frigates, Analysis of noise and vibration levels in ships by using mixed vibroacoustic prediction models ( SEA and EFEA); Planning and optimization of naval welding processes using computational simulation techniques, Study of adhesive unions for the naval sector and Non-contact measurement techniques for non-destructive evaluation of materials with unmanned vehicles.

At present, the University of Cádiz already has a total of 29 industrial doctoral theses in development, with their corresponding pre-doctoral contracts signed. The projection, as announced by the rector of UCA, is to have 41 projects underway at the end of this year. The theses are channeled through collaborative projects developed under the direction of a researcher doctor of UCA and a doctor co-director by the company, with the support of the research group and laboratories, technological equipment and resources of the University.