Faculty: School of Machinery and Automobile Engineering
Degree: MS
Specialty: Vehicle Engineering
Minimum Total Credits: 25.0
Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 17.0
Minimum Optional Course Credits: 8.0
Objectives
Students under this program are expected to grasp a solid foundation of atutomobile engineering theory and systematic professional knowledge of the discipline; to be well-informed with modern design theory, technology and method, modern electronic technology and necessary practical skills of vehicles; be able to employ modern science and technology to solve technological problems in the manufacturing process; to be proficient in one foreign language; to be capable to undertake teaching, scientific researches and other professional technological work independently.
Years of Study
3 years
Major Research Fields
1. Vehicle Design Theory and Method
2. Vehicle System Dynamics and Electronic Control
3. Vehicle Engineering and Light-Weight Vehicle Design
4. Design Theory & Control Technology of Electric Vehicle
5. Vehicle Vibration Noise Testing and Control Technology and Fault Diagnosis
Cultivation Mode
Advisory system is applied in this program. Students should set out a working program with the instruction of their supervisors in the first two weeks after registration. Students are supposed to participate in the stage assessment according to Master Degree Candidate Medium-Term Screening Method of South China University of Technology and complete the required social practices the third semester. Regular seminar reports are also required.
Dissertation
Students should draw up a working plan for the theses between the 11th and the 20th weeks in the third semester; start writing Literature Review (no less than 5000 words) and thesis proposals. 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 10 pieces. Thesis proposals are expected to be finished in the third semester. Before applying for the thesis defense, students are required to have published 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 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, systematic feature, innovativeness and the art of writing.
Curriculum
| Compulsory Courses | Course Code | Course Title | Credit | Teacher |
| S0001001 | Scientific Socialism Theory and Practice | 1 | Hang Liwen |
| S0001002 | Introduction to Dialectics of Nature | 2 | Tan Binzhao |
| S0002011 | First Foreign Language (Essential English) | 3 | |
| S0003001 | Mathematical Statistics Theory and Method | 2 | |
| S0003004 | Numerical Analysis (Basis of Science and Engineering Computation) | 2 | |
| S0802078 | Finite Element Theory and Method | 3 | |
| S0802079 | Vibration Mechanics | 3 | |
| S0802108 | Vehicle System Dynamics | 2 | |
| Optional Courses | S0004013 | Principles of Economics | 2 | Dong Xuemei |
| S0004015 | Principles of Management | 2 | |
| S0004034 | Scientific Writing and Submission Guidance | 1 | Liu Shuhua |
| S0802080 | Dynamic Signal Analysis | 3 | |
| S0802109 | Basis of Vehicle Structure Model Analysis | 2 | Yang Zhijian |
| S0802112 | Vehicle Air Dynamics and Vehicle Body Moulding | 2 | |
| S0802114 | Vehicle System Simulation and Optimization | 2 | |
| S0802115 | Electric Vehicle | 1 | |
| S0802119 | Theoretical Basis and Application of Vehicle Control | 2 | |
| S0802120 | Computer Control and Its Application in Vehicle | 2 | |
| S0802165 | Design Theory and Technology of Vehicle Body System | 2 | |
| S0802166 | Computer-Aided Vehicle Body Moulding Design | 2 | |
| S0802167 | Vehicle Optimal Design Method | 2 | |
| S0802171 | Safety Theory and Technology of Vehicle Collision | 2 | |
| S0802172 | Vehicle Vibration Noise Analysis and Control | 2 | |
| S0802164 | Development Frontiers of Vehicle and Power System | 2 | Jiang Libiao |
