Amylum Resource Science & Engineering
 
time: 2015-09-17

Faculty: School of Light Industry and Food Science

Degree: MS

Specialty: Amylum Resource Science & Engineering

Minimum Total Credits: 28.0

Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 18.0

Minimum Optional Course Credits: 10.0

Objectives

The program aims to cultivate quality specialists who are required to be equipped with a solid theoretical foundation, specialized knowledge and practical skills of the discipline; who are well-informed with the developing trends both at home and abroad; who have strong abilities to undertake independent scientific researches, to solve engineering technical problems and to bring new ideas; and who are competent to engage in teaching, scientific researches, technology development and management jobs of related subjects. Students are expected to be well-developed morally, intellectually and physically.

Years of Study

Three years

Major Research Fields

1. Technology and Engineering of Starch Functional Materials
2. Technology and Engineering of Starch Sugaring
3. Starch Fine Chemical Engineering

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 before the end of the third semester.

Dissertation

Thesis Proposals should be finished with the instruction of supervisors before the end of the third semester. Before applying for Thesis Defense, graduates are required to publish officially at least one academic paper in journals of China’s science and technology or core journals with South China University of Technology signed as the first unit, or the student signed as the first author or the supervisor signed as the first author and the student the second. 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

S0001001

Scientific Socialism Theory and Practice

1

S0001002

Introduction to Dialectics of Nature

2

S0002004

First Foreign Language (Specialty English)

1

S0002011

First Foreign Language (Essential English))

3

S0003004

Numerical Analysis (basis of Science and Engineering Computation)

2

S0004023

Theoretical Organic Chemistry

3

Group 1 of Compulsory Courses

S0004028

Colloid and Interface Chemistry

3

S0822018

Carbohydrate Chemistry

3

S0822030

Glycobiology and Polysaccharide Drugs

3

S0822081

Green Processing Technology of Sugar Products

3

S0832024

Science andTechnology of Sugar

3

Optional Courses

S0004013

Principles of Economics

2

S0004015

Principles of Management

2

S0004034

Scientific Writing and Submission Guidance

1

S0822019

Biochemistry and Technology of Polysaccharide

3

S0822021

Starch and Starch Sugar Technology

2

S0822022

Denatured Starch

2

S0822023

Theoretical Foundation of Solution

2

S0822024

Functional Materials of Carbohydrate

2

S0822025

New Detecting Technique of Carbohydrate Products

2

S0822027

Plant Chemical Constituents

2

S0822028

Modern Crystallization Technology

2

S0822031

Introduction to Starch Resources Science and Engineering

3

S0822032

Environment-Friendly Starch Material

2

S0822034

Natural Product Chemistry and Engineering

2

S0822035

Natural Polysaccharide Biological Materials

2

S0822041

Microalgae Biotechnology

2

S0822058

Sound Chemical Basis

2

S0822060

Principle and Simulation of Biological Separation

2

S0822078

Molecular Biology

2

S0822079

Modern Instrumental Analysis of Polysaccharide

3

S0822080

Biological Resources and Technology

3

S0832025

Electromagnetic Processing Technology

2

S0832030

Principles and Techniques of Rapid Detection of Food Microbiology

2

S0832032

Technology Data Acquisition and Computer Analysis

2

S0832033

Computerized Scientific Writing

2

S0832036

Non-Thermal Sterilization Technology

2