Faculty: School of Light Industry and Food Science

Degree: Ph.D

Specialty: Processing and Storage of Agriculture Products

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 specialized personnel who have noble character and rigorous style of study with well-developed nature in moral, intellectual and physical aspects. Students are required to have a profound mastery of the developing trends of agricultural products processing and related disciplines both at home and abroad; to be equipped with solid theoretical foundation, specialized knowledge and proficient practical skills of the study field and with innovative and good teamwork spirit. Students are expected to possess strong abilities to undertake scientific researches and solve engineering and technology problems independently, and to be able to make innovative achievements in related fields.

Years of Study

Three years

Major Research Fields

1. Greening Processing Technology of Agricultural Products
2. Preservation and Quality Control of Agricultural Products

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 (those who are enrolled in doctoral program ahead of the schedule, or who are enrolled in master-doctoral program, or who are enrolled in straight-in doctoral program are supposed to participate in the medium term assessment according to Doctor Degree Candidate Medium-Term Assessment Method of South China University of Technology before the end of the second semester when they obtain the doctorate) and complete the required social practices before the end of the third semester (in-service doctoral students are exempt from social practices). Regular stage summaries are needed.

Dissertation

Doctoral students should draw up a working thesis plan, look up related literature of the research field in recent 10 years and write thesis proposals between the 8^th and 15^th weeks of the third semester. Before applying for the thesis defense, students are required to publish at least three academic papers related to thesis topics among which two papers should be published in SCI or in the second sector or above in SCI. 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