MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN!
Dear students, alumni, colleagues, and partners of CDE,
The recent Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (QS WUR) by Subject 2024 have placed six of our CDE programmes in the global top 10. This is a significant achievement, with Architecture/Built Environment and Chemical Engineering ranking at #5, Civil & Structural Engineering at #4, Electrical & Electronic Engineering at #6, Materials Science at #8, and Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering at #7. These rankings highlight our institution's global standing and underscore our commitment to interdisciplinary learning, equipping our students to thrive in the future's diverse challenges and opportunities.
But beyond the hard numbers of ranking stats, the quality of our education and research programmes can be seen in many other ways.
This month, the Bumblebee Team, a multi-disciplinary project programme comprising students across multiple disciplines such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and based in CDE, has once again achieved success this time at the Singapore AUV Challenge 2024. Faculty members from our Division of Industrial Design, Assistant Professor Clement Zheng and Ms Tiffany Loy represented Singapore with other creatives at the Milan Design Week as part of DesignSingapore Council's Future Impact 2, which looks to a new era of design, where technology empowers designers to create a better tomorrow. Lastly, CDE class ambassadors came together to connect and share ideas on how alums can support current students and the larger CDE-NUS community.
Professor Teo Kie Leong
Dean
College of Design and Engineering (CDE)
HIGHLIGHTS
EVENTS
Social Design Lab (SoDL) Exhibition – Acts Of Caring, Nurturing, Repairing And Imagining
The exhibition brings together a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen socially-engaged projects. Ranging from art, design, architecture, education, and urban planning, the projects situate the social across multiple scales and sites. They present a mosaic of outputs that reflect how different fields and disciplines respond to the urgent eco-techno-social concerns of our time. To assemble is […]
Social Design Lab (SoDL) Inaugural Conference – Examining The Social In Architecture
Interrogating what “the social” constitutes in the field of architecture, Designing the Social explores its philosophical, material, spatial and pedagogical limits. For its inaugural conference, the Social Design Lab (SoDL) at the National University of Singapore looks at how the social is activated through design, specifically how the raw material of social life might be […]
DOA Symposium: Building / Community in the Tropics and Beyond
The principle of site specificity has long guided most works of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. Yet what the “site” means itself remains mutable and contested. Recent design scholarship and practice progressively turn to local, indigenous, and traditional ways of shaping environments as critiques of modernist legacies of uniformity and standardisation. Still, we must remain […]
DOA Guest Lecture Series: Lobbying for Architecture
This talk will cover the work of The Architecture Lobby, an activist organisation that “lobbies” for the value of architecture in the public and in the profession itself. Begun in 2013 in New York City, it has evolved into an organisation trying to transform, on many fronts, the valuation of architectural work. The hope is […]
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