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The IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2019 were presented at the World Engineers Summit (WES) 2019 Conference Dinner held on 29 August 2019 at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre.<\/p>\n

With Assistant Professor Olivier Lefebvre’s proprietary graphene electrodes, he proposes electrochemistry as the new gold standard to address the problem of \u201chard-to-treat\u201d industrial wastewater. \u00a0This is a problem of utmost importance recently highlighted by the World Bank Group in their report entitled \u201cQuality Unknown: the Invisible Water Crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n

To read more on the work of Assistant Professor Olivier and his team click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2019 were presented at the World Engineers Summit (WES) 2019 Conference Dinner held on 29 August 2019 at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre. With Assistant Professor Olivier Lefebvre’s proprietary graphene electrodes, he proposes electrochemistry as the new gold standard to address the problem of \u201chard-to-treat\u201d industrial wastewater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":3764,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[62],"class_list":["post-3763","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-all-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDr Olivier Lefebvre won top honours for advancing engineering and enhancing quality of life of Singaporeans - Civil and Environmental Engineering | NUS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/news-detail\/dr-olivier-lefebvre-won-top-honours-for-advancing-engineering-and-enhancing-quality-of-life-of-singaporeans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr Olivier Lefebvre won top honours for advancing engineering and enhancing quality of life of Singaporeans - Civil and Environmental Engineering | NUS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2019 were presented at the World Engineers Summit (WES) 2019 Conference Dinner held on 29 August 2019 at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre. 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