Social Activities
On October 27, 2023, the NUS ECE Club, in collaboration with NUS Board Games, transformed Utown Seminar Rooms 7 and 8 into a spooky Halloween-themed haven. The Halloween Board Games Night brought students from diverse majors and Co-Curricular Activities together to have fun and unwind especially during the examination season.
The event featured a fantastic array of board games, such as 'Burrito' and 'Coup.' In 'Burrito,' players embarked on a quirky card game adventure. 'Coup,' a popular social deduction card game, added an exciting twist to the evening. These games provided the perfect backdrop for students to immerse themselves in thrilling gameplay and showcase their strategic prowess.
We are thankful for the NUS Board Games for their invaluable support in making the event a resounding success. Their expertise in the world of board games undoubtedly contributed to the enjoyable experience for all attendees. Moreover, we want to acknowledge the outstanding efforts of our welfare team for their meticulous planning and dedication in sourcing the delightful Halloween-themed treats that kept everyone energised throughout the night.
The Halloween Board Games Night was more than just a gaming event; it was an opportunity to foster a sense of camaraderie and create lasting memories. We look forward to hosting more engaging events like this in the future, uniting students from different backgrounds and making our NUS community stronger than ever. Stay tuned for more exciting adventures with the NUS ECE Club!
As Covid-19 restrictions eased by mid-2022, the long-awaited ECE Camp 22, a fully face-to-face 3 days camp was organised and held from the 20th to the 22nd of June 2022! ECE Club organised the annual freshmen orientation camp with 3 full days of exciting camp and bonding activities. Involving over 25 senior students and over 100 ECE freshmen, the first fully face-to-face orientation camp after 3 years of Covid was finally here!
Freshmen were welcomed with an exclusive camp welfare pack that was kindly provided by our sponsors as well as a customised camp tee shirt! During the camp, students went through meaningful activities such as an amazing race and night walk around NUS campus to familiarize themselves with significant locations and landmarks. This indirectly provided a campus tour, bringing freshmen around to get to know and adapt to the huge university campus environment. These activities created many opportunities for freshmen and orientation group leaders and seniors to get to know each other and share about academics, university life and even life plans! Lastly, ECE Club and ECE Camp Committee would like to place a huge shoutout and a huge thank you here to all sponsors, committee members and student leaders who have contributed, enthused and engaged with the freshmen!
A much-awaited event after a hiatus for several years, the Class of 2022 Graduation Dinner was hosted by the ECE Undergraduate Student Council (USC), at the elegant Plume ballroom under the Singapore Flyer on 21st May, Saturday, 2022.
The event included over 110 graduates, plus-ones, and ECE faculty. As part of the graduation gift package, graduates received a custom ECE hoodie, a congratulatory note and a travel document organizer proudly sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations (OAR).
The event began with an inspiring welcome speech by Prof. Arthur Tay and a screening of the OAR commencement video. After which, everyone was served dinner while they reminisced with each other about their NUS experiences, caught up with one another’s lives and excitedly discussed future plans! Amidst the conversations, laughter and cutlery sounds, there were also two marvelous musical performances, performed by our very own ECE students. The beautiful singers enlivened the ballroom with their melodious voices alongside the guitar and keyboard instrumentals.
After the performances, laughter ensued with some fun and interactive games, followed by a “Best Dressed” competition where in the two most fashionably dressed individuals were voted by the attendees, after their captivating catwalks on stage! The games and the “Best Dressed” competition engaged the audience thoroughly as everyone enthusiastically participated, cheered, and clapped. The event ended free and easy, where in everyone indulged in taking photos, casually chatted or danced to music by our very own DJ!
It was a memorable and precious one-time get together that celebrated a significant milestone for the Class of 2022. This event celebrated the memories of their undergraduate journey and we wish the ECE Class of 2022, the very best in their future endeavours!
ECE club conducted their very first flagship Welfare Carnival this year on February 26, 2022, where there was a variety of game booths like Ddakji, Dart Tic Tac Toe and Shuttlepass, designed and manned by ECE Club members. The Welfare Carnival is an innovative twist on the typical welfare pack giveaway with fun and interesting activities allowing students to destress! Friends get to bond at playing games and working together to overcome challenges.
Lots of welfare pack goodies such as bubble tea were given out to motivate and support about 200 ECE students in their preparations for mid-term tests. We also had various rewards for participating in the games, like polaroid photos, keychains, soft toys and more. The event wrapped out with an exciting lucky draw where three lucky students walked away with Armaggeddon Keyboard, Razer Mouse and Xiaomi Powerbank!
ECE Club held a T-shirt sale fundraiser event from January to February 2022. With the concept of Electrical & Computer Engineering in mind, an anime-inspired theme was developed by our very own ECE Club members. The custom made designs were named Quintessential, Firefox and Tempest. More than 250 shirts were sold and the funds used for the event were used for the subsequent activities,such as the Welfare Carnival event.
As part of a semesterly ritual, ECE Club prepared Welfare packs for ECE students to congratulate them on making it to the last week of school and provide some further motivation for the exam season! The welfare pack contained a wide variety of foods such as Hello Panda, Indomee and Coffee sachets as well as foolscap and other stationery to tide them through the most stressful part of the semester. ECE Club members took time out of their busy schedules to pack 300 welfare packs filled with goodies and distributed them to ECE students. ECE club would like to extend their gratitude to sponsors who provided items for the pack, namely Kimage Salon, I’m Kim Korean BBQ, WE Cinemas, ChopeDeals, PerkyLash, AFU-Sappe, and Grad Singapore. Students collected their welfare packs on the 10th the 11th of November 2021 and the event was a success, with 300 packs given out.
As a novel initiative to provide for conducive study spaces, throughout 3 weeks in November 2021, ECE Club took the initiative to conduct peer-to-peer study sessions in preparation for the final examination period. These weekly sessions were conducted both online and offline. By creating a buddy system whereby we link up two ECE students taking similar modules, we were able to facilitate a conducive pairing system where students can learn from each other. Students could also make friends with their peers in the same course. To boost motivation, ECE Club gave out Milo drinks and stationary equipment for all students who participated. The peer-to-peer study sessions conducted benefited over 30 ECE students and were a success, as the study environment was well-organized, focused, and abided by COVID-19 regulations.
The Freshmen Welcome Party is an annual event where Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering freshmen get to know their Academic Advisors and ECE seniors. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the NUS ECE Undergraduate Student Council has converted the party into an online event which was held on 20 August 2021, Friday from 6 pm to 8 pm with over 150 participants.
Prof Tham Chen Khong Tham, the Deputy Head of Undergraduate Programmes and Student Life, opened the Freshmen Welcome Party with a warm welcome to the freshmen. The Undergraduate Student Council executive committee was then introduced followed by the showcase of the newly nominated Freshmen Cohort Representatives for 2021. The Cohort Representatives form an important channel of communication and are a bridge between the ECE Department, Faculty, and all ECE students!
Next, our ECE seniors shared their exciting journeys in NUS which spanned from their residential life experiences in halls and colleges to their industrial and overseas experiences in NUS Overseas Colleges, Student Exchange Programs, Internships, Industrial Attachments and many more. This was followed by a Ask Me Anything (AMA) session where the freshmen are allowed to ask anything relating to school life!
The event wrapped up with a bonding session between the freshmen, academic advisors, and seniors where they were separated into smaller groups for fun and games. Last not be least, the event ended with a blast through a Kahoot Quiz where the top 10 winners won a Limited-Edition USC T-shirt. Freshmen participating also got to receive a customized Limited Edition 3 in 1 USB Cable!!
Every year before the commencement of another university year, the ECE Club organizes a freshmen orientation camp for our incoming Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering freshmen. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the ECE Freshmen Orientation Camp 2021 held on 30th June and 1 July 2021 was moved online and conducted via Zoom. This virtual event hosted 80 freshmen, where engaging and interesting team-bonding activities were conducted to help them to get to know their coursemates before the start of their university life! The event also provided an opportunity for the freshmen to tap into their seniors’ tips and experiences on ECE modules and school life. Attractive prizes were also given out as part of the activities to enhance the excitement. Each freshmen also walked home with a customized exclusive ECE Camp 2021 Tee shirt! A big shoutout and thanks to the 26 ECE camp committee members for their excellent job in planning the camp programme, enthusing and engaging the freshmen to participate in the events.
On the 7th and 8th April of 2021, ECE Club organized a Welfare Pack Giveaway alongside various engineering clubs. During the welfare pack giveaway, we gave out tote bags filled with various items to support the ECE student community during the exam period. The booth was located outside Starbucks at the Engineering canteen, Technoedge. Some of the popular items in the welfare pack included a laptop sleeve, notebook, and snacks and the students were also given a free ECE shirt alongside their pack. This event was organised as part of the ECE Club’s welfare activities for the ECE student body and funded in large by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. ECE Club would also like to place its thanks to our sponsors that are RSAF, NYC, CHAT, BBQ Wholesale, and Kingdom Food Group for the items in the welfare pack. The event was a popular hit with the students and concluded successfully with a total of 250 bags given out.
The ECE Club organised a Milk Tea Day where they gave out a bubble tea drink in the first week of Semester 2 on 16 January 2020 at E-Cubes, Engineering Block E4. This event was organized and fully funded as part of the ECE Club’s welfare activities for ECE student community. This event was a great success with 150 cups of bubble tea given out!
Comment from EE student Zhou Zhi Hao:
“In semester 2 of AY 2019/20, ECE club has organized a bubble tea giveaway session to welcome the ECE cohort to a new semester. I was appointed to be in charge of student registration and giving out the beverage. As milk tea and bubble tea are extremely popular with students, a long queue outside ECube could be observed 20 minutes before the event starting time. All the students who had come down to collect their drinks were enthusiastically chatting with their friends while patiently waiting for their turn to go to the registration booth. I felt it is very heartwarming that ECE club had fully funded an event like this to welcome the students back to their second home in NUS, and it also provided an opportunity for students to catch up with one and another and forge bonds between them. As one of the members who have helped in making this event possible, I felt a strong sense of accomplishment, too.”
The Undergraduate Student Council (USC) organized a lunch-cum-dialogue-session with A/Prof Vivian Ng and A/Prof Marc Armand on 20 March 2015 at T-Lab, level 7 foyer. Aptly called “Meet the Bosses”, the event provided an informal platform for students to have an open conversation with two members of the Department’s management about various aspects of our curriculum and their student life experience in NUS ECE. In addition, the USC shared about their upcoming plans to provide a more holistic learning experience for ECE students.
About 35 students gathered at this event to share about the challenges they faced and voice out some of the things they hope to see in the future. It was an insightful session as the needs and wants shared by the student community surfaced.
A Movie Night was organized to welcome the students back to the new semester in AY2012/2013 sem 2. This was held on 6 Feb 2013 at Shaw Foundation Alumni House. Our students interacted with one another, chill-out and relax over superb dinner before the computer-animated fantasy comedy film, Brave, was showed in the theatre.
Each year from 2012 to 2014, the Department held a Freshmen Party for ECE freshmen at Town Green, University Town. The aim of the ECE Freshmen Party is to promote interaction between ECE faculty and students by providing the opportunity for our freshmen to be introduced to their academic advisors in an informal setting. The evening at the party has always been enjoyable, thanks to an eventful programme packed with games and musical performances put up by students and ECE professors. Moreover, everyone is treated to a sumptuous dinner with wonderful treats. Many just had loads of fun mingling and making new friends.
The Department held its second year end party in the afternoon of 9 May 2015 at the Tembusu College dining hall to celebrate the hard work that ECE undergraduate students and academic staff had put in over the past academic year. The party, which bore the theme “Super Hero”, was organized by the ECE Undergraduate Student Council (USC). Over 140 students and staff turned up for the party, ready to let their hair down and mingle with one another.
The afternoon was filled with a series of enjoyable and entertaining programs. The event kicked off with a welcome address by Deputy Head (Undergraduate Programmes & Student Life), A/Prof Vivian Ng, followed by a sumptuous spread of lunch buffet treats. Midway through the lunch, the audience was entertained by various performances on stage which included a beautiful acoustic guitar performance put up by EE4 student and President of the USC, Alex Toh, and a high-octane performance by a rock band comprising one EE1student and four students from Ridge View Residences. The two musical performances got the audience charged up for an interesting game of charades in which professors were pitted against the students. A/Prof Ganesh Samudra and Dr Rajesh Panicker courageously came on stage to act out the different super heroes. After a fun and lively battle between the two faculty members and students, the students, not surprisingly, emerged victorious. Part of the afternoon’s highlights was a portable photobooth which was highly subscribed by students and professors alike. Everyone had a good time snapping photos that were printed on the spot for them. The party drew to a close with the song, “Gravity”, sung beautifully by Yi Ran from Ridge View Residence.
All in all, the party was a Fantastic way for the students who were there to say “Good-bye” to NUS ECE for the year 2014/15.
