MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN!
Dear students, alumni, colleagues, and partners of CDE,
As a research-intensive university, NUS has long cultivated deep research expertise and offers ample opportunities for students to delve into research in areas of their interest and explore the application of research output through innovation and entrepreneurship activities.
CDE has a long history of research excellence, and since the merger, multi- and inter-disciplinary projects, programmes and platforms have sprung up, extending further opportunities to create impact in a broad spectrum of areas. The College hosts the Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute (CFI Singapore), the nation’s first Centre of Excellence dedicated to strengthening local capabilities and expertise in coastal protection and flood management research and solution development. This past month, CFI Singapore showcased nine research projects at the Singapore International Water Week, led by researchers from across NUS, NTU and SIT.
NUS Cities, an education and research unit in CDE, was also present at another international stage, the World Cities Summit, this past month, and it showcased projects from CDE students, faculty, and staff. Both CFI Singapore and NUS Cities are dedicated to nurturing new talent in their respective areas able to deal with the current and emerging issues that face us.
This month, we announced the winners of the AY2023/2024 NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize (OURP) and CDE Innovation & Research Award (IRA). The winners come from across CDE, including industrial design, biomedical engineering, chemical and biomolecular engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering—a testament to the diversity of research opportunities available here for our students.
It is exciting to see work being undertaken at all levels across the College, and I look forward to seeing more of our researchers creating a real impact on the world around us.
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 […]
PREVIOUS ISSUES
