Smart Engineering and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC-BarcelonaTech) collaborate within the Plan of Industrial Doctorates of the Generalitat de Catalunya. It is a strategy for contributing to the competitiveness and the internationalization of the Catalan industry, retaining talent and allowing the PhD students to develop R+D+i projects in a private company. Smart Engineering will develop the proyect “Development of numerical models for the design and analysis of rigid, semi-rigid and flexible pavements”.