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NOWITECH
Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
Since the start of NOWITECH, 25 PhD scholars
and 5 Postdocs at NTNU have been funded by the
Centre. In addition, another 10 PhD and 2 Postdoc
students were associated to the Centre in 2015.
These do research within the thematic area of the
Centre at NTNU, and participate in relevant Centre
activities, but their
grants are funded
outside the Centre.
The PhD and
Postdoc positions
are carried out as an integrated part of the work
packages. The Scientific Committee (SC) has the
overall responsibility for developing the PhD
and Postdoc programme. This include an active
recruitment strategy, organization of joint PhD
forums and training, exposing them to industry
and leading international research groups by
organising the PhDs and Postdocs in groups
contrary to the unfortunate ivory tower model.
A total of eight PhDs successfully defended their
doctoral work in 2015 at NTNU on offshore
wind energy. Of these seven had funding from
NOWITECH and one had funding from other
sources. A list of all PhD students and Postdocs
financed through NOWITECH or by other sources
on offshore wind energy at NTNU can be found in
Appendix.
The remaining PhD and Postdocs financed by
NOWITECH are due to finish in 2016-2017, see
Figure 11, with the exception of one that started
in 2015 and will
finish in 2018 after
the completion of
NOWITECH.
MSc students
are engaged in summer jobs with the research
partners, and the partners are also active in
proposing relevant subjects for their final projects
and theses. The MSc education on wind energy has
been enhanced at NTNU through NOWITECH, with
the PhD and Postdocs assisting in the education,
and the engaged professors cooperating through
the SC and other NOWITECH activities across
faculties.
During 2015, professors and scientific staff
at NTNU, with relations to NOWITECH, were
supervisors for 48 MSc students with theses
specializing in offshore wind energy (see
Appendix). This is a remarkable increase from
previous years, Figure 15, and demonstrates
high and increasing interest in offshore wind
energy among master students at NTNU. The
Erasmus Mundus European Wind Energy Master
(EWEM) programme gives further weight to the
MSc education at NTNU, in particular in the fields
of electro and marine which are areas of NTNU
engagement within the EWEM.
Increased recruitment of women is promoted by
active profiling of female candidates specializing
within the field of offshore wind energy. In
hiring students for summer job, PhD or Postdoc
positions, women are especially invited to apply,
and will be selected over male candidates if
otherwise equally qualified.
Figure 14: Timeline of PhD and Postdoc programme
funded by NOWITECH. Data for 2016-2017 are
estimates.
Figure 15: Annual number of MSc theses in offshore
wind energy at NTNU since start of NOWITECH.
RECRUITMENT
The PhD and Postdoc positions
are carried out as an integrated
part of the work packages.
The MSc education on wind
energy has been enhanced at
NTNU through NOWITECH.
2009
30
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
25
20
15
10
5
0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
PhD dissertation (acc)
Post doc ongoing
PhD ongoing
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
Books/theses
Media contribution
Posters
Reports
Conference
presentation
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
2009
30
60
50
40
30
20
10
25
20
15
10
5
0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
PhD dissertation (acc)
Post doc ongoing
PhD ongoing
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
1
2
3
4
5
600
7 0
8 0
900
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Books/theses
Media contribution
Posters
Reports
Conference
presentation
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed