Congratulations to our students from Teams U-Life and HaveAlr for winning first and second places for the IKEA Singapore Young Designers Award! IKEA Singapore Young Designer Award was launched in 2014 for students in tertiary institutions to showcase their design ideas to create a better life at home. Over the years, the competition evolved and

Congratulations to our iDP team Biotrack who won the NUS Resilience and Growth (R&G) Innovation Challenge and I&E Practicum@SoC grant. Both grants are intended to turn ideas into a real business. Comprising of Jonathan Chua (Electrical Engineering, Class of 2022), Joshua Seetoh (Chemical Engineering. Class of 2022), Qiu Jing Ying(Computer Science. Class of 2022), and

Congratulations to our iDP team MediVR who was one of the winners of Founder Ignite, the first in a series of startup showcase events organized by Enterprise Singapore as part of the Startup SG Founder Venture Building programme. The programme aims to provide support to groom aspiring entrepreneurs with no experience to build and scale their

Congratulations to Andrew Wijaya (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2022), Michael Sutanto (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2022), and Shirley Wang (Theatre Studies, Class of 2022) on their success in the NUS Resilience and Growth Innovation Challenge for their project on robot-enabled companionship for older adults. The project aims to empower the elderly to live healthily and

Congratulations to Dr Khoo Eng Tat and Mr Eugene Ee who were recognized for their teaching excellence in academic year 2019/2020! Dr Khoo Eng Tat, a Senior Lecturer in EDIC, was awarded the Innovative Teaching Award for the use of innovative methodologies for his teaching. He has been helming the Ideas to Start-up module and

Sim Zhi Min, an iDP teaching staff won the Schwarzman Scholarship, a prestigious Master’s degree and leadership programme at Tsinghua University’s Schwarzman College. He was chosen from over 3,600 applicants worldwide to form the programme’s sixth cohort of 154 students. Schwarzman Scholars are selected through a rigorous application process designed to identify leadership potential, strength

School of computing students Koh Wee Lun, Clarence, Pattany Kruathorn and Yang Yuqing collaborated with iDP students Aiden Koh and Anthea Foong in developing a virtual reality orthopaedic clinic assessment solution for National University Health System. The project won SGTech-SoC Innovation Prize 2020 – Team Prize. The innovation prizes (1 individual and 1 team) are

Singapore’s very own sports car by 2023: Three of our instructors from NUS Engineering’s Innovation & Design Programme have been providing their expertise to local start-up Catalyst Motors who is building a made-in-Singapore sports car. During their NUS undergraduate years, Kenneth Neo, Hozefa Husainee and Hong Wee were part of the NUS Formula SAE team who

NUS Engineering’s R-19 race car clinched 13th place at the 2019 Formula SAE (FSAE) Michigan competition in the US, capping off four gruelling days of competition with 119 other varsity teams from around the world. The R-19 also raced into 4th place for Engineering Design, 7th place at the Acceleration event and 8th place for the Skidpad event.

It is an iDP tradition to host our annual project showcase, where the best of our projects are demonstrated to industry partners, guests and students. This year’s theme is “Applying DESIGN, Creating INNOVATION”. Twenty-five innovative projects were featured, including underwater vehicles, virtual reality (VR) applications, various drones, and many more designs which solve a variety

The third batch of Grand Challenges Scholars from NUS have completed the program and will be graduating this year! The Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) aims to prepare students to be the generation that solves the grand challenges facing society in this century. It is a program endorsed by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

The Innovation & Design Programme (iDP) ran a series of leadership development opportunities for students in 2018 and 2019. Students were engaged in basic leadership training and were provided with opportunities to apply their leadership skills through experiential learning.