China’s top defence university is piloting a scheme that allows PhD students to graduate with a product or design instead of a thesis in an effort to solve “bottleneck” engineering problems amid the tech race with the United States.

Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) – dubbed one of China’s “Seven Sons of National Defence” because of its contributions to defence research and technology – is exploring new approaches to fostering engineers. These include removing traditional academic papers as a mandatory degree requirement, according to a report by the China Science Daily last week.

In September, Wei Lianfeng, an engineer-turned-doctoral candidate, became the university’s first PhD student to successfully pass his oral defence and obtain his degree based solely on practical results.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/art...aIDa_YgYQtcZqtQ

China ni memang suka bikin benda yang lain daripada yang lain

Meanwhile in Malaysia,......

But here we got garbage PhD?? We still win right??

here got phd cerita kool storey

Well, we already have EngD (Engineering Doctorate) where it combines academic research with real world engineering solutions. So why not product oriented PhD?

Spirit of invention is long dead.
There is no actual inventor any longer.
Anything invented by its owner simply owned by states or corporation.

Same thing as your money

Your money is actually gomen’s money

while in US, some of the boss never graduated already got product and company running

Well I have 2 patents pending, and several other copyrights under my name.

Sure, I don't know how to commercialize it (yet), but I wont stop designing/inventing .

create useless products also can patent, topkek, malaysian academics are too free.

Whao..this is gonna be good. A really good step into the world of practically

you can litteraly type bullshit and copyright it

Here no need la, we already have xde hap buat Hal culture
I'm sure even non Bach ppl can come out of a xde product buat product

Well, this applies not only to msia. Now everyone tries to patent anything they can even if the thing they are patenting is useless.

give him phd

Haha, meanwhile in Malaysia, some PhDs can graduate based on pure imagination — shit you not.

Need more money then lol developing product even at prototype will cost a lot depend on scope but could be infinitely better than thesis

yes the difference is things comming out of msia are mostly rubbish while commercial useful products comes mostly from overseas.

Shhhh people who never contributed anything and just whine and whine can just shut up lel.

yea, a big assumption with no proof you made there, typical of local subpar academics.

Makes sense, fields like engineering is more practical based anyway. Focusing on thesis more likely become anjing liar

sigh, can please spend less money on trying to kill each other or not ?

This post has been edited by Redhunt: Nov 28 2025, 03:34 PM

That's the most insult you can bring after a few days?

That's sad.

Are you that free as an academic? That's why the standard is so low? I am not trying to insult you, local academics are very much capable in insulting themselves.

Oh I can always find time for some random internet troll.