The defense started in the afternoon. It was originally supposed to be in the morning, but Professor Yuan just got off the plane yesterday, and he needs more rest because of his age to cope with jet lag.

After discussion with several tutors, Shen Qingyi unanimously decided to let Professor Yuan rest for a while.

Then the defense time was changed to the afternoon.

There were ten defense review experts in total, including three experts from other provinces and seven experts from this hospital.

Since the master's degree and the Ph.D. were defended together, the two groups of experts were simply mixed and matched.

Master's and doctoral defenses require different review expert requirements.

A master's degree only requires five associate professors or above, and the leader of the defense committee must be a professor to form a panel of experts for review.

A doctorate requires seven experts, and three of them must be experts from other provinces.

The reason why each of the defending students has to pay so much money is that most of it is labor fees for the experts.

Especially for a few experts from other provinces, not only do they have to provide labor services, but they also have to provide full board and lodging. If the conditions are good, their tutors will also take them to local tourist attractions.

This time we have a jury of ten people because in addition to the three experts from other provinces, the students of the other seven tutors are all students participating in the defense this time.

Of course, when a tutor's student defends, the tutor is not included in the defense expert committee.

It will be reviewed by other teachers.

The tickets for the defense resolution are specially made by the Graduate Office, one for each expert. If they agree, they will circle the opinion column, and if they disagree, they will put a cross.

Under normal circumstances, I won't draw a cross. After all, the tutors are all contacted by themselves and are helpful to each other.

What level of experts can be invited for the defense expert depends first on the situation of experts in the department, and secondly on the ability and connections of the department director, and what kind of experts from other provinces can be invited.

Professor Yuan need not say more.

He can serve as a professor and enroll students in two universities at home and abroad at the same time. There are only a handful of people in Dongjiang University who have this honor.

Although the three experts from other provinces were invited by the department director, they also looked at Professor Yuan's face.

Professor Yuan is about to retire, and Ren Huaibo is most likely to be his last disciple.

This was also the first time that Ren Huaibo met his instructor in person. During the previous interview, someone else had done the interview for him. Professor Yuan was connected remotely and was in charge.

Because Professor Yuan spent most of his time abroad and rarely returned to China, Ren Huaibo had to rely more on his young mentor Chu Xia if he wanted to study for a Ph.D.

Professor Yuan probably can't give much guidance. As a young teacher, Chu Xia is teaching students for the first time, so she must be eager to give it a try.

Judging from the fact that she arranged Ren Huaibo in her office, Chu Xia must have intended to train Ren Huaibo.

The defense will be conducted in the order of master's degree first and then doctoral degree.

Except for Chi Zhouxu and Tang Jiahui, the other students were all upstairs. There were many of them, so the arrangements had to be made according to their orders. Chi Zhouxu and Tang Jiahui were arranged as the first two.

Generally speaking, the higher you are ranked, the less conducive it is to your defense.

Because at the beginning, both students and experts were in high spirits, so the ppt reporting process might not have any impact, but the subsequent questioning session would be difficult to deal with.

This is also the most critical link in the evaluation by the defense experts, and there is almost no such thing.

Master's students have ten minutes for questions in this session, and PhD students have twenty minutes.

Chi Zhouxu knew that Tang Jiahui was timid and nervous, and couldn't bear to see his girlfriend being wronged, so he was the first to appear.

The situation was as Zhou Mo expected, and the first one would eventually have to face more doubts.

However, she wouldn't worry too much. Chi Zhouxu's defense ppt was rehearsed in the department, and Shen Qingyi and she revised it word for word, without even typos.

Chi Zhouxu has a sunny personality and handsome appearance. From an external perspective, he has certain advantages.

He was very calm throughout the report, and he did not speak too fast or get stuck. After finishing the ppt, there was a burst of applause from the audience.

It's a good start.

The person in charge is Director Tao of the Social Medicine and Medical Informatics Teaching and Research Section.

"Experts, please express your opinions." Director Tao adjusted his glasses, turned around, and finally landed on Professor Yuan.

"I'll go first," Professor Yuan, who was sitting in the front seat, looked at the projection screen, "turn the ppt to i

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Chi Zhouxu followed suit.

Professor Yuan said: "You have done a good job with these pictures. They are progressive and logically connected. However, there are still some details. Which literature did you cite for the effect of smoking? It was Richa.

Which article from d?"

Chi Zhouxu really didn't pay attention to this detail, and he didn't hide anything. He said generously: "I'm sorry, Professor Yuan, I don't remember it well. Let me take a look at my article."

He looked through the references at the end of his paper and replied: "I quoted another one."

Professor Yuan: "Whose? What is the author's name?"

Chi Zhouxu: "It should be a domestic author named Luwei."

Professor Yuan: "Go back and change it, Richa

The d article is more classic, the sample size is large, and the experimental design is very clever. I suggest you take a look at the concept of that article. The multi-center, blind, and stratified sampling methods are also very sophisticated."

Chi Zhouxu: "Okay, thank you Professor Yuan, I will definitely go and see it."

Later, Professor Yuan asked some questions about several interesting positive results in Chi Zhouxu's results.

Generally speaking, there were mostly discussions, guidance, and no deliberate embarrassment. The atmosphere of the defense was relatively relaxed.

However, experts are experts after all, and the questions sometimes asked, as a master's student who has just entered the threshold of scientific research, are dimensionality reduction attacks.

There is a saying that goes around - answer the question, answer the question, but don't answer the question.

This means that when an expert asks a question, just listen, answer if you can. If you can’t answer, just honestly say you don’t know, ask the teacher for guidance, don’t make excuses, and don’t argue with the defending expert.

Zhou Mo had already warned Chi Zhouxu and Tang Jiahui.

Professor Yuan's last question, Chi Zhouxu said frankly that he didn't know it. Professor Yuan nodded to express his understanding, saying that this question is quite difficult for master's students.

In a clockwise direction, the other teachers asked some more questions.

The ten minutes passed very quickly. Chi Zhouxu performed very well and was praised by Director Tao, who said that the young man was very energetic and polite.

This made Chi Zhouxu feel a little embarrassed.

When I walked off the stage, I almost tripped over the wiring of the projection screen, which made the audience burst into laughter.

Such a funny scene also added a bit of relaxation to the tense atmosphere of the defense.

The experts sat around a huge oval conference table, surrounded by two or three circles of students.

Shen Qingyi sat just at the vertex of the short axis of the oval table, and Zhou Mo and the students in the group sat behind Shen Qingyi.

After Chi Zhouxu stepped down from the stage, he sat among them.
Chapter completed!