{"id":17426,"date":"2023-09-25T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=17426"},"modified":"2023-10-31T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:22:03","slug":"the-9th-engineering-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/news\/the-9th-engineering-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9th Engineering Innovation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Engineering for Resilient City Living&#8221;. 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 &#8220;What a Melonplastic: Sustainable Bioplastic using Watermelon Rind Waste&#8221;. 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17427 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/EveTeam@9thEngineeringInnovationChallenge-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/EveTeam@9thEngineeringInnovationChallenge-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/EveTeam@9thEngineeringInnovationChallenge-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/EveTeam@9thEngineeringInnovationChallenge-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/EveTeam@9thEngineeringInnovationChallenge-1536x1110.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/EveTeam@9thEngineeringInnovationChallenge.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Engineering for Resilient City Living&#8221;. 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