The 9th Engineering Innovation Challenge - Civil and Environmental Engineering

The 9th Engineering Innovation Challenge organized by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) allows students to design a product to demonstrate their understanding of the theme “Engineering for Resilient City Living”. At the prize presentation ceremony on 26 August 2023, NUS CDE CEE Environmental Engineering students from CEE Department won the Merit Award (Category 4) for their project titled “What a Melonplastic: Sustainable Bioplastic using Watermelon Rind Waste”. The project focuses on the valorisation of homogenous fruit waste into higher-value biodegradable food packaging, to reduce the consumption of virgin materials in manufacturing plastic food packaging.

Prize presentation photo: (From left to right) Sammi Lee Ziyun, Chin Xin Yi, Charmaine Zhu Fangying, Clarissa Ong Rui Min, Teo Jia Xin. Mentor/Supervisor (not in photo): Assistant Professor, Dr Iris Yu

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