MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN!
Dear students, alumni, colleagues, and partners of CDE,
NUS Commencement 2024 has just concluded.
This month, we shared our graduates' stories of their time here and spotlighted their many diverse achievements.
Our valedictorians shared their wishes for the future with inspiring messages to their classmates. Ryan Quah, Master of Architecture/Bachelor of Arts (Architecture) with Honours, encouraged them to “believe in our potential and embrace the journey that is yet to come. After all, we are the only architects of our own lives.” Biomedical Engineering valedictorian Rachel Reno Lim rallied her cohort with a call to “Let today be a testament to how much we can accomplish. I am excited to witness us flourish into researchers, innovators, engineers, entrepreneurs, leaders, and change-makers.”
We learnt of Jerome Teo Sze Yong, who graduated as a double-degree major in Electrical Engineering and Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), a national DanceSport athlete who, with his sister, represented TeamNUS and Singapore at the Southeast Asian Games.
We celebrated with Bryan Tan, BEng (Chemical Engineering) with Honours (Distinction), who had taken a less conventional route to NUS through ITE and polytechnic, winning numerous awards along the way, yet who always had time to give back as a student leader and ambassador.
Departments gave their students grand sendoffs with graduation parties for students and their loved ones. In their last semester here, students proudly showcased their projects at gradshows and exhibitions as a final exclamation point to their time here.
I'm always proud of our new graduates and wish them all the best wherever their path takes them. As career and personal developments move them further from their time here, student days may quickly become distant memories. I hope the ties they have made here with other students and faculty members continue to tether them to the CDE community. We will always welcome our alums back with open arms.
Professor Teo Kie Leong
Dean
College of Design and Engineering (CDE)
HIGHLIGHTS
EVENTS
Between Line & Form Exhibition
Between Line & Form is an exhibition of hand-drawn architectural sketches by Ar. Rene Tan, presented in conjunction with the RT+Q Drawing Prize at NUS. Spanning over 40 years, the showcase features lead-on-paper sketches, mechanical pencil on vellum, ink and Pantone on Mylar, pen parti diagrams, ballpoint design esquisses, and sketchbooks on loan from the National Archives of Singapore. These drawings trace a personal journey through observation, discovery, improvisation, and speculation. From “Covid Drawings” exploring interior space to “Otto Wagner Drawings” on proportion and detail, “Pantone Drawings” on light and shadow, “Travel Sketches” on place and memory, and “Sketchbook Etudes” tracking design ideas, each work embodies what Michael Graves called “tangible speculations.” Between Line & Form invites visitors to reflect on the enduring value of hand sketching in an increasingly digital design culture, and to appreciate the liberating journey between each line and the next.
CDE Innovation Day 2026
CDE Innovation Day 2026 gives NUS students and researchers a clear pathway to develop ideas, strengthen prototypes and turn research into real-world solutions through three tailored tracks. Bringing together design, engineering and enterprise, the programme helps participants build skills, test and refine their concepts, and compete for more than SGD 300,000 in funding at the […]
Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute (CFI) Annual Symposium 2026
The CFI Annual Symposium 2026 is a 3-day conference, co-located with the 6th International Symposium of Water Disaster Mitigation and Water Environmental Regulation (WDWE) and the 2026 Asia Tsunami Workshop (ATW), which would be held at SIT Punggol from 21st October to 23rd October. The theme for this year’s CFI Annual Symposium 2026 is ‘Adapting Cities for Coastal and Flood Resilience’, reflecting the urgent need to take proactive steps to prepare for flooding in our cities. Admission is free for all CFI Symposium attendees. Paid tickets are also available for WDWE and ATW.
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