At the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD students are expected to contribute to the teaching activities at the department in the form of teaching assistance. Each PhD student should typically deliver 300 hours in teaching assistance during their studies. The actual decision about the level of individual involvement lies within the sections.

As a PhD student, you should not understand teaching assistance as a mere obligation or duty work but as part of your education. It is what a university can offer as hands-on training in teaching, communicating and directing. It is one of the universities' main channels for disseminating advanced scientific knowledge beyond the research communities. 300 hours provide a sound basis to achieve this. 

The requirement to do other forms of dissemination as stated in the Ministerial Order is not affected by this.

• See the information by GSTS concerning suggested forms of dissemination.
• Read the Ministerial Order on the PhD Programme (DK)
• Read the Ministerial Order on the PhD Programme (ENG)

Your teaching activities and hours are registered in ECE’s teaching allocation spreadsheets, which are regularly updated by Rasmus Nielsen from the secretariat. We encourage you to check the PhD overview at the beginning of each semester to make sure that your information is correct and up to date.

Checking the overview helps ensure that:

• you receive credit for all the teaching you have completed for your obligatory hours.
• your section can see your total teaching commitment and avoid allocating you more work than is reasonable during your PhD
• you have a useful record of the courses and subjects you have taught when documenting your experience on your CV or in future job applications.

If you cannot find your name, or if any activities or hours are missing, please contact Rasmus Nielsen. The spreadsheets are centrally maintained, so you cannot update them yourself.

All current, future, and past allocation of teaching spreadsheets are easily accessible here:

Please note that dissemination hours entered in MyPhD are not automatically transferred to ECE’s teaching allocation spreadsheets, nor is the information from ECE's teaching allocation spreadsheets automatically transferred to MyPhD.