Nanjing University of Science and Technology

1. Introduction

Automation technology is widely used in many fields including industry, agriculture, aerospace and national defense. The specialty of automation has a long history, strong faculty force, and superior teaching facilities. It is a Jiangsu provincial key brand discipline and a national characteristic discipline. The discipline has gained many honors and titles, such as national distinguished teachers and national excellent teaching teams. The faculty advocates the student-centered teaching philosophy and has built a set of practical education system for training system designers.

The discipline focuses on the following four research areas: motion control systems, process control systems, network control systems, and embedded control systems. The discipline has several national and provincial essence courses, a national bilingual teaching demonstration course, and a provincial automation experimental teaching demonstration centre which plays a great role in the cultivation of students’ scientific literacy and innovation capabilities. The undergraduates have won more than twenty outstanding awards, first-place awards and second-place awards in various national undergraduate competitions, such as the Challenge Cup National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, the Industrial Automation Challenge Contest, the National Undergraduate Intelligent Car Contest, the Chinese Robot Contest, and the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest. The graduates can undertake system design, product manufacture, and software/hardware development in automatic filed. They possess strong practical ability and can adapt to the needs of the society. The employment rate of the past three years exceeded 99% and over 60% of the graduates were admitted to various universities for further study.

2. Research Directions

1. Automatic control theory and application
2. Measurement technology and automatic equipment
3. Complex engineering system modeling, control and optimization
4. Pattern recognition and intelligent system
5. Navigation, guidance and control

3. Duration of studies

Full time master students are expected to complete their studies and earn their degrees in 2.5 to 5 years, and they will be disqualified from the program after 5 years.

4. Credits requirements

Students are required to complete at least 28 degree credits from courses in Section 5 with a minimum of 26 coursework credits and 2 obligatory courses.

5. Curriculum

6. Thesis Topic and Proposal

A master student is supposed to choose his/her research direction under an advisor’s guidance. The student should actively study, research and survey in the chosen research direction. The student is expected to choose a research topic for the postgraduate thesis and confirm the significance of the topic in a thesis proposal. The thesis proposal should be submitted and defended at the beginning of the second year of study.

Detailed regulations and requirements on master's thesis can be found in the "NJUST Regulations about the Topic Selection, Research Proposal and Composition of Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations".

7. Publication

Before graduation, each master student should have at least one academic paper published or accepted for publication. Detailed requirements are documented in "NUST regulations on a postgraduate’s publications of their research work".

8. Degree Thesis Requirement

MA Degree thesis is one of the most important parts for graduate education, which provides students with training on academic research or specific technology application, enhances students’ abilities to innovate and to apply the knowledge to their research, and encourages them to discover, analyze and solve problems in their fields.

Detailed regulations and requirements on master's thesis are documented in the "NJUST Regulations about the Topic Selection, Research Proposal and Composition of Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations", and "NUST Style Sheet for Theses and Dissertations". For a joint effort with others, or a follow-up of previous work, the student should clearly specify his/her contribution to the thesis.