Faculty: School of Machinery and Automobile Engineering
Degree: Ph.D
Specialty: Chemical Process Equipment
Minimum Total Credits: 12.0
Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 9.0
Minimum Optional Course Credits: 3.0
Objectives
This program aims to cultivate high-level scientific and technological personnel with well-development in moral, intellectual and physical aspects who have solid and broad theoretical basis and in-depth systematic specialized knowledge of the subject; who are well-informed with the developing trends of the frontier issues of the field of study; who have strong ability to work independently and capacity to conduct scientific researches creatively and to solve complicated engineering technological problems.
Years of Study
3 years.
Major Research Fields
1. Process Equipment Safe Reliability and Risk Estimation Technique
2. Industrial Safety and Risk Estimation and Management Information System
3. High-Efficiency Heat and Mass Transfer Equipment and Technology
4. Materials Corrosion and Protection
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. Regular seminars (stage summary reports) 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 Document #61, 2008 of SouthChinaUniversity 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 |
| B0807003 | Reliability Engineering and Its Application | 3 | |
| Optional Courses | B0002002 | Second Foreign Language (Japanese) | 2 | |
| B0002014 | Second Foreign Language（German） | 2 | Cai Shuxiang |
| B0802018 | Machinery Process and Control Theory | 3 | |
| B0807002 | Process Equipment Failure Analysis and Prevention | 3 | |
