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System Design Workshop and Competition

13/12/2022

Last week, the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management, College of Design and Engineering organised our “System Design Workshop and Competition” in conjunction with Eng Kong Logistics Hub.     The workshop and competition received students of different educational backgrounds and interests, with a significant proportion of students coming from various Junior Colleges and some

2021 MAURICE HOLLAND AWARD

10/06/2022

James Nebus, Chai Kah-Hin and Annapoornima M. Subramanian   Congratulations to A/Prof Chai Kah Hin and A/Prof Annapoornima M. Subramanian who won the 2021 Maurice Holland Award for one of their papers published in RTM journal. The research paper “Protecting Intellectual Property and Appropriating Value from Innovations in Weak Appropriability Regimes,” is the winner of

Vessel Collision Avoidance

02/05/2022

A/Prof Ng Szu Hui and her research team are developing an early warning and collision avoidance system for crowded waters with PSA Marine called PAS (Pilot Advisory System). Below is a short summary of the PAS framework. Motivation Maritime shipping is one of most efficient modes of transport today. With the growth in world trade,

Reflections on Teaching an Interdisciplinary Module

15/04/2022

Associate Professor Aaron Chia takes us through his experience of teaching an interdisciplinary course (IE5404/DTS5701) on large-scale systems engineering, including an explanation of the framework used and the challenges encountered. What is Large Scale Systems Engineering? Large-scale systems engineering (LSSE) deals with the conceptualising, designing, building, and managing of “system of systems” (SoS) from a systems

Optimization Workshop at Annual Business Analytics Case Competition 2022

05/04/2022

Every year, our ISE student club organizes a business analytics case competition (BACC) for pre-university students and current engineering undergraduates. This year’s competition (BACC 2022) was jointly organized with Micron. As part of the event, we (Napat and Chin Hon) were invited by the ISE club to conduct an optimization workshop for the participants. Optimization

ISE GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT SURVEY 2021

25/02/2022

ISE graduates continue to report high salaries and healthy employment in the latest GES Year after year, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) graduates consistently report healthy employment and high starting salaries in the Graduate Employment Survey (GES) conducted by the Ministry of Education each November. The 2021 cohort is no different with 96.7% finding employment within six

Two-Sided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Mobility-on-Demand Management with Mixed-Autonomy

01/02/2022

Congratulations to Ms. Xie Jiaohong (supervised by A/Prof. Chen Nan and Dr. Liu Yang), who won Second Place in the Student Research Competition in the virtual event on Artificial Intelligence Enabled Next Generation Transportation Systems. This was organized by the Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Committee of ASCE Transportation & Development Institute. Her research and presentation

Workshop on Machine Learning – Image Classification

05/01/2022

Machine learning enables businesses to speed up the pace of work, reduce errors and improve accuracy. One example of this is image classification where a machine processes images along a production line to identify defective products. The ability to train machines to recognize images presents a huge opportunity for many organizations. In particular, visual tasks

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Fifth video in Digital Twin series introduces Visualisation

17/05/2021

Brought to you by the Centre of Excellence in Modelling and Simulation for Next Generation Ports (C4NGP) and Centre for Next Generation Logistics (C4NGL), here is the fifth video in our series about Digital Twin. In this video, we talk about Visualisation and the varying degrees of visibility ranging from text and dashboard display to

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Fourth video in Digital Twin series introduces Optimisation and Learning

19/04/2021

Brought to you by the Centre of Excellence in Modelling and Simulation for Next Generation Ports (C4NGP) and Centre for Next Generation Logistics (C4NGL), here is the fourth video in our series about Digital Twin. In this video, we talk about Optimisation and Learning, which are key degrees of Analysability in Digital Twin. This video