HIGHLIGHTS
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS & STUDENT LIFE
The fourth and last session of the AY2022/23 Semester 2’s fitness classes as a part of the free Move Your Body workshop series (Sportie) saw CDE students taking part in a late afternoon session of Pilates, held at SDE4 Open Plaza. Student enthusiasts to first timers at Pilates alike followed eagerly to the guidance of the experienced instructor, and in the process worked on strengthening their body and their posture, balance and flexibility.
The Office of Student Life (OSL) hosted a delegation visit from the Washington University in May 2023. The ten students and two academic staff, most of whom were from the McKelvey School of Engineering, were met with a warm welcome by Acting Dean Professor Teo Kie Leong, Vice Deans Associate Professor Martin Buist and Professor Ho Ghim Wei, Office staff and student representatives on 22 May, before a short tour. Tour highlights included the SDE4 Net Zero Energy Building, Space Bar and To-Gather student life spaces, as well as the canteen and garden spaces around the University campus.
The delegation also met up with staff from the various Departments and key research laboratories in the subsequent days with the kind support from the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. The Office facilitated a faculty-student exchange on 25 May, to discuss the roles of engineers in areas such as sustainable energy, materials, pollution and waste management.
We wish them our very best on their return to St. Louis, United States.
Loh Jiong Rui, a Year 2 Student has had his review "Challenges and Strategies in the Development of Zinc-Ion Batteries" published in the journal Small Methods. The review sought to explain the issues, challenges, and strategies in the current development of zinc-ion batteries due to increasing costs and environmental concerns. In addition, a multi-pronged approach to enhance the performance of zinc-ion batteries was proposed. He was supervised by Dr Vincent Lee. Read the paper at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smtd.202300101
The NUS Satellite Technology and Research Centre (STAR) under CDE recently celebrated the successful launch of its third satellite into orbit. Among the engineers who worked on the project are several current and former CDE students who played key roles in the design, development, and testing of the satellite.
A team of iDP students Li Bozhao, Liu Yiming (Michael), and Genna Ng Qing Yi recently concluded their final year project titled ‘High Gain Antenna for CubeSat’ with local space company NuSpace Pte Ltd. The student team worked on various ideas related to deployable mechanisms for such an antenna over their one-year long design project EG3301 and their final year project EG4301. Their novel ideas which proposed mathematical solutions and use of origami to optimise a rigid origami paraboloid surface were accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS) that will be held on June 3 to 9 in Kurume, Japan. These developments benefit the development and potential commercialistion of high gain antennas for CubeSats which could open possibilities in space borne radar and deep space communications. The student team will also be presenting their work at the Senior Project Conference in Engineering and Technology (ISPC 2023) at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi in late May. This project was supervised by Mr Eugene Ee (NUS EDIC) and Mr Ng Zhen Ning (CEO and founder of NuSpace Pte Ltd).
