Faculty: School of Machinery and Automobile Engineering
Degree: Ph.D
Specialty: Vehicle Engineering
Minimum Total Credits: 13.0
Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 9.0
Minimum Optional Course Credits: 4.0
Objectives
This program aims to cultivate high-levle specialized personnel who have solid and broad theoretical foundation and systemic professional knowledge and practical skills of the research field and a deep understanding of the of cross-disciplinary features and the leading-edge research developing trends of the subject. Students are expected to be able to conduct scientific researches independently and creatively in automobile or related fields of vehicle engineering and be competent to solve complicated engineering technological problems.
Years of Study
3 years.
Major Research Fields
1. Vehicle System Dynamics and Modern Design Methods
2. Control of Course of Work of Power Generating Machine
3. Automobile Body Framework Optimization and Safety Technology
4. Vehicle Performance Test and Fault Diagnosis
Cultivation Mode
Advisory system is applied in this doctoral program. Doctoral students should draw up a working program with the instruction of their supervisors in the first month after registration. Students are supposed to participate in the medium term assessment according to Doctor Degree Candidate Medium-Term Assessment Method of South China University of Technology and complete the required social practices before the end of the third semester. Regular seminar and stage summaries are needed.
Dissertation
Doctoral students should draw up a working thesis plan, write literature review (8,000 words or above) and thesis proposals between the 8th and 15th weeks of the third semester. The reading amount should reach 80 pieces or above, among which no less than 30 pieces should be in English. Before applying for the thesis defense, students are required to publish academic papers officially according to the requirements listed in #61 Document, 2008 of South China University of Technology. 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 on the completion of theses. Apart from the above regulations, the dissertation has to meet the requirements of the school on its academic nature, systematicness, creativity and writing.
Curriculum
| Compulsory Courses | Course Code | Course Title | Credit | Teacher |
| B0001001 | Modern Scientific and Technological Revolution and Marxism | 3 | Huang Liwen |
| B0002012 | First Foreign Language (English) | 3 | Zhao Weili |
| B0802021 | Modern Design Theory and Methods of Vehicles | 3 | |
| Optional Courses | B0002002 | Second Foreign Language (Japanese) | 2 | |
| B0002014 | Second Foreign Language（German） | 2 | Can Shuxiang |
| B0004009 | Scientific Writing and Submission Guidelines | 1 | Liu Shuhua |
| B0802024 | Topics on Electric Vehicle | 3 | |
| B0802026 | Electrical Control and Intelligent Vehicles | 3 | |
| B0802027 | Modern Signal Analysis and Vehicle Performance Test | 3 | |
