Doctorate - What can I expect?
A doctorate is usually the result of a project lasting several years, during which the doctoral candidate acquires specialist knowledge in a specific subject area through independent, scientific work and demonstrates this in the form of a dissertation. The research work is documented in the form of a dissertation in order to give other academics access to the research findings.
The doctoral candidate makes a contribution to research and teaching during the doctorate. In addition to working on the doctoral topic, workshops are organized in research and cooperation projects, national and international conferences are attended and publications are produced. In the field of teaching, the doctoral student supervises lectures and excursions and assists in the conduct of exercises and examinations.
Why do a doctorate?
A doctorate offers advantages not only in the field of science and industry, but also in terms of your own career and personal development. The contribution to the progress of knowledge in science enables the doctoral student to create new knowledge and to expand their own specialist and methodological knowledge in a targeted manner. Individual development, for example through seminars and networking with companies and other doctoral students, enables them to enter a scientific career or a management position in industry.
Why do a doctorate at the FBK?
The FBK offers projects and doctoral topics in innovative fields of research with a strong connection to industry. The doctorate comes with full TV-L 13 salary.
The FBK cooperates with various funding bodies, such as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) (Research Projects). With the help of funding from the BMBF, joint research projects on current economic developments and trends are carried out in collaboration with companies and scientists from various research institutions. The close contact and diverse cooperation with companies ensures a link to the practice of industrial production. The FBK offers the opportunity to complete a doctorate in the field of production technology as part of the first international graduate program International Research Training Group (IRTG), a cooperation between the TU Kaiserslautern and the University of California.
The FBK is one of the largest chairs at TU Kaiserslautern with 8 research fields and over 20 doctoral students. The work as a research assistant at the FBK is varied and includes not only independent innovative projects in the field of basic research but also numerous cooperative and industrial projects in the fields of production engineering and industrial organization (Research). The varied tasks allow the scientific staff new challenges as well as insights into other research topics and thus an extensive exchange of knowledge. Through worldwide cooperation with universities, research stays at international locations and participation in numerous national and international seminars and conferences are realized. The FBK's dynamic and multicultural team is interdisciplinary and creates a productive and pleasant working environment, which is reinforced by numerous team events.
In addition, work at the FBK is characterized by an extensively equipped, constantly growing test field (Equipment). Here, experiments are carried out and evaluated using the chair's own measuring equipment, which enables prompt and practice-oriented implementation of experimental research.
