PhD, Doctoral Education, Plus, Value, Higher education

1. ABCPhD Program
Architecture, Built Environment
and Construction Engineering
Doctorate Program
enrico de angelis
架構 architecture
房屋 construction
工程 engineering environment (built) 環境
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2. Who is the PhD holder?
The ten “doctoral plus”

3. 1. A PhD holder knows how to find answers
If you are trained to identify
and solve problems, you are
trained for decision-making:
• critical thinking
• complex problem solving
Isaiah Hankel, “7 Advantages PhDs Have Over Other
Job Candidates” www.cheekyscientist.com

4. 2. A PhD holder is not easily frightened:
he/she learns from failures …
Isaiah Hankel, “7 Advantages PhDs Have Over Other
Job Candidates” www.cheekyscientist.com

5. 2. A PhD holder is not easily frightened
… and is tempered in uncertainty
Isaiah Hankel, “7 Advantages PhDs Have Over Other
Job Candidates” www.cheekyscientist.com
… and is fully experienced with negative bosses

6. 3. A PhD holder is taught (tempered)
for high level communication
Isaiah Hankel, “7 Advantages PhDs Have Over Other
Job Candidates” www.cheekyscientist.com
You don’t just regurgitate information, you create it.

7. 4. A PhD holder is taught (tempered)
to compete and to cooperate
Isaiah Hankel, “7 Advantages PhDs Have Over Other
Job Candidates” www.cheekyscientist.com

8. 5. A PhD holder is adaptable to change
(technological, social, organizational)
… he/she is trained to generate the change and often is
already beyond the chance that is to come

9. 6. PhD holder’s talent is innovation
[progressive&disruptive innovation]
«les docteurs … peuvent apporter “les innovations de rupture” qui feront les
emplois et la croissance de demain» M.C. Corbier, LesEcho.fr 12/11/14

10. 7. PhD holders share a valuable set of
relations with experts and stakeholders
PhD Doctors are requested to build relations at a global level with the most influential
and experts and to join, locally too, with stakeholders and their representative. These
networks are less easily ACCESSIBLE by industrial and social parties

11. 8. PhD holders have knowledge, experience
and creativity to use it with high profit

12. 9. The three years costs to grow PhD holders
are payed back by their three year work
PhD Candidates, during their first year are mostly devoted to understand the questions to
face and to complete their knowledge. But they start working ASAP … and the more their
are helped in this first task, the quicker their results come … do you have any question?
three year costs may be payed
bach before than three year

13. 10. PhD training cost is low
but it needs medium term programs
Slide by: Lidia Borrell-Damian
Director, Research and Innovation,
European University Association,
8th EUA-CDE workshop Aix-
Marseille, January 2015)