Bridge Engineering and Expert PhD Advice with Dr. Eva Lantsoght

About this episode

Dr. Eva Lantsoght shares valuable insights on the benefits and challenges of pursuing a PhD.

This episode shares some valuable PhD advice from Dr. Eva Lantsoght, host of the podcast “PhD Talk”. Our discussion focuses on the benefits and challenges of doing a PhD, and why you might consider doing (or not doing) a PhD. Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/Fjb3xKDEmns Dr. Lantsoght is a Professor of Structural Engineering at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and a part-time tenured assistant professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her field of...

People in this episode

Host: Jesse Crowe

Guest: Dr. Eva Lantsoght

Topics covered

• PhD advice
• bridge engineering
• structural engineering
• academic challenges
• higher education

Keywords

• PhD
• engineering
• academic advice
• structural engineering
• higher education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Delft University of Technology

Books & works: PhD Talk

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