Faculty: School of Light Industry and Food Science

Degree: MS

Specialty: Cereals, Oils and Vegetable Protein Engineering

Minimum Total Credits: 25.0

Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 15.0

Minimum Optional Course Credits: 10.0

Objectives

This program aims to cultivate high-level specialists who are well-developed morally, intellectually and physically; who are equipped with a solid theoretical foundation and profound specialized knowledge of the field; who are well-informed with the developing trend and the international research frontier issues of this study; who are capable of applying advanced testing technology and computer simulation technology; who are proficient of one foreign language and able to read references in English; who are capable to undertake the work of teaching, scientific researches, technology development, engineering technology and related technological management jobs in the field of oil-gas storage and transportation engineering.

Years of Study

Three years

Major Research Fields

1. Grain Science and Engineering
2. Protein Chemistry and Engineering
3. Oil Chemistry and Engineering
4. Grain Storage Project

Cultivation Mode

Advisory system is applied in the program. Students are required to draw up a working plan under the instruction of supervisors in the first two weeks after registration and bound to participate in the stage assessment in the third semester according to Master Degree Candidate Medium-Term Screening Method of South China University of Technology and complete social practices before the end of the third semester. Regular seminar reports are required.

Dissertation

Students should draw up a working plan for the theses between the 11^th and the 20^th weeks in the third semester. Literature Review and Thesis Proposals have to be finished before the end of the third semester. More than 50 pieces of document have to be covered in the literature review, among which those in English should amount to no less than 15 pieces. Before applying for the thesis defense, students are required to have published at least one research paper in core academic journals with South China University of Technology signed as the first unit, the student signed as the first author or the supervisor signed as the first author whereas the student the second, or have at least one published paper recruited in index SCI, EI or ISTP, or have one authorized patent. On the completion of theses, thesis defense will be arranged according to Rules for the Implementation of Graduation Degrees of South China University of Technology and Regulations of the Applications for Thesis Defense of South China University of Technology. Apart from the above related regulations of degree thesis made by SCUT, the thesis is supposed to meet the school requirements in terms of its academic nature, systematicness, innovativeness and the art of writing.

Curriculum