Faculty: School of Material Science and Engineering
Degree: Ph.D
Specialty: Materials Processing 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-level specialized personnel who have solid and broad theoretical basis and systematic, in-depth professional knowledge of materials processing; who are well-informed with the developing trends of material science and engineering and have a command of necessary experimental and computer skills; who have the abilities of conducting scientific researches or solve complex engineering problems independently; who are proficient in a foreign language and computer application skills; who are able make creative achievements in the field of materials processing engineering Students are expected to become perfect personnel in related research institutions, institutions of higher learning or production departments with good moral character and humane accomplishment.
Years of Study
3 years.
Major Research Fields
1. Thin-Film Material and Its Application
2. Nano-Functional Materials
3. Surface Engineering of Materials
4. Advanced Metal Material Manufacturing and Characterization
5. Magnetic Materials and Devices
6. Electronic Packaging Materials and Engineering
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 two weeks 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.
Dissertation
Doctoral students should write thesis proposals in the third semester (the exact date is to be arranged by every discipline). Before applying for the thesis defense, students are required to publish academic papers officially according to the requirements made by 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.
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 |
| B0805009 | Development in Materials Science and Engineering (I) | 3 | |
| Optional Courses | B0002002 | Second Foreign Language (Japanese) | 2 | |
| B0002003 | Second Foreign Language（German） | 3 | Cai Shuxiang |
| B0805035 | Polymer Dynamic Processing Theory and Process Control | 3 | |
| B0805036 | Computer Simulation of Polymer Material Processing | 2 | |
| B0805043 | Principles of Modern Material Processing | 3 | |
| B0805044 | Environmental Materials and Green Manufacturing Technology | 3 | |
| B0805047 | Frontier Issues of Materials Precise Formation | 3 | |
