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Associate Professor Chua Kian Jon Ernest and his research team were conferred top honours at this year’s ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Awards. The awards were presented at the 36th Conference of ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations (CAFEO), held from 12 to 14 November 2018 in Singapore, the Resorts World Sentosa. The annual award is awarded

In recognition of his research on the next generation of counter-flow dew-point evaporative coolers that are capable of cooling air below the wet-point temperature, the World Society of Sustainability Energy Technologies (WSSET) presented the WSSET Innovation Awards 2018 for Energy Efficiency to Associate Professor Chua Kian Jon, Ernest from NUS Mechanical Engineering at the WSSET

ESP Lecturers A/Prof Ernest Chua and Dr Raisul were once again featured in the Straits Time today (8 January 2018). This time it is for developing a bulky protoype of the world’s first “green” air-conditioning system that harnesses water to cool the surrounding air without a compressor. Click here for the article. Link and photo

FOR his research on energy and sustainability, Associate Professor Chua Kian Jon Ernest, from NUS Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the “Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award 2017” on 15 November 2017. Assoc Prof Chua and his team have developed a novel hybrid method that improves air dehumidification to achieve very low air dryness.

ESP Lecturers A/Prof Ernest Chua and Dr Raisul were featured in the Straits Time today (13 October 2017) for their smart quad-generation plant which produces electricity, water, air-conditioning and heat in a cheaper and greener way and custom-made for the tropics. Click here for the article. Link and photo courtesy of the Straits Times Newspaper.

Engineering Science Programme Associate, A/Prof Ho Ghim Wei has been granted $3.08 million from MND for her research project entitled Hybrid Reflective, Catalytic and Pyroelectric Nanocomposite for Holistic Solar Heat Gain, Air Quality and Energy Sustainability Solution. Click here to read more about her project

Engineering Science Programme students – Messrs Au Khai Xiang, Balamuniappan Pranesh and Kwek Wen Lin – under the supervision of Associate Professor Anjam Khursheed, Associate Professor Chua Kian Jon Ernest, Dr Md Raisul Islam, and Mr Nelliyan Karuppiah, received the IES Prestigious Engineering Award 2016 for their project titled ‘Smart White Cane’ that caters to

Four NUS Engineering projects on developing cost-effective energy solutions were among six that won the $15 million Energy Storage Grant Call. The winners were revealed at Energy Innovation 2016 Forum, held on 3 June. The projects, funded by the Energy Market Authority’s (EMA) grant, will look at enabling the deployment of energy storage under Singapore’s

AIR+ Smart Mask is invented by Innosparks Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of ST Engineering, in collaboration with Associate Professor Erik Birgersson from NUS Engineering Science Programme and Mr Donn Koh, Lecturer from NUS Industrial Design and Co-Founder of STUCK Design Pte Ltd. It combines two products — an ergonomic protective mask designed in three sizes