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Associate Professor Chua Kian Jon Ernest was conferred the WSSET (World Society for Sustainable Energy Technology) Innovation Awards under the theme on Energy Efficiency on 21 July 2016. He received the award at the 15th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET 2016), held from 19 to 22 July 2016 in Singapore. Click here to read

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

ESP Alumnus Tan Chuan Fu together with Zhu Liangliang, ECE research team of Associate Professor Ho Ghim Wei have clinched the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Merit Award in the Open category. The award was given out by Mr. Ng Chee Meng, Acting Minister for Education and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Transport on

A/Prof Ernest Chua was the principal and corresponding author for the award-winning paper titled Achieving better energy-efficient air conditioning – A review of technologies and strategies (Volume 105, pages 87-104). His was one of 2 papers from NUS Engineering research teams have been listed as “Top 40 most highly cited Research and Review papers” in

Tan Wenyou from the 1st Cohort of ESP Graduates has been listed by Poets & Quants as one of their top 100 MBA Graduates of 2016. The students hail from 53 different MBA programs globally, representing nearly every school. It is reported in Fortune magazine that Wenyou made a difference through social enterprise. Click here

Associate Professor Palani Balaya has been recognized by the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) as an “ACerS Global Ambassador” for his outstanding efforts in developing global collaboration and outreach for the Society’s initiatives, as well as for his leadership in the organisation of the Asia Pacific Ceramic Cooperation Summit (APCC Summit) held at the University in

In the recent Ministry of Education’s graduate employment survey (GES 2015), ESP office is pleased to learn of the relatively good salaries that our ESP graduating class 2015 received. The mean gross monthly salary of ESP graduates shows an 11.7% increase over the previous year’s salary. ESP graduates continue to impress their employers as evident

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

In the recent 14th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC) held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 6-8 January 2016, Prof C.M. Wang was elected the Vice Chairman of EASEC International Steering Committee. Initiated by Prof Fumio Nishino in 1984, EASEC has become a premier conference series having to date 14

ESP Alumuni Wang Cong shares his view and experience of his time in ESP. Currently in his 3rd year of his PhD at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he has developed a technology which will pave the way for more efficient and smaller pressure valves that would have applications in biomedicine as well as