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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

ESP Associate A/Prof Ernest Chua received the Best Paper Award at the recent IEEE-organised International Conference on Green Energy for Sustainable Development (ICUE2018) held in Phuket, Thailand (24 – 26 Oct 2018). Click here to read more about his achievement. We at ESP will like to congratulate him once again for this latest award and

ESP Year 2 Student Jonathan Jie along with NUS student Lim Wei Da, Henriikka Hakala and Anni Heiskanen from the University of Turku, emerged as the top team in the inaugural Finland-Singapore Maritime Innovation Camp. For their achievement, they were presented with a cash prize of S$5,000 by the event’s Guest-of-Honour, Ambassador of Finland to

ESP continues to provide student exchange opportunities with its partner universities. This academic year, over 50% of the 2017-18 cohort are going on student exchange, and the majority are going to our partner universities, University of Toronto, Canada, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and Osaka University, Japan. There are also 12 week Vacation Internship

ESP has recently welcomed the arrival of the 13th batch of ESP students and celebrated the graduation of the 9th batch of students with a party at Novotel Clarke Quay Hotel. Click here to read more about these and other new developments in our latest edition of PULSE.

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

Raghav is from the ESP Class of 2013 and he did his specialisation in Energy systems. He is currently the Head of Project Management at Cleantech Solar (Part of the founding team). They are now the leading Independent Power Producer for Solar Energy in Asia for commercial and industrial clients. He has been featured in

The 2017 Ministry of Education’s Graduate Employment Survey results are out and ESP office found that ESP Students command the 2nd highest mean basic and gross monthly salary. About 76.5 % of the cohort have found a job while the balance 23.5% are currently pursing higher studies. Click here for the more information.

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 Lecturer cum Mechanical Engineering Researcher A/Prof Ernest Chua was conferred the ‘IChemE Energy Award 2017’, in recognition of his research effort and contribution to Energy and Sustainability on 19th October 2017. Click here  for more information.

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.