Despite leaving the doctoral program in electrical engineering at Chengkung University to enter CSIST, he never forgot his goal of going abroad to complete his degree. CSIST even several times offered to send him abroad to study. But according to the rules, personnel working in military institutions could not take their wives with them overseas.
當年從成大電機所博士班考進中科院後，黃文丁仍念念不忘要出國拿學位，中科院也幾度要送黃文丁出國唸書，唯一的限制是軍職機構人員不能帶太太出去。