The Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, led by Profs. Khoo Boo Cheong, Zhu Lailai, Chng Tat Loon and Spot Srigrarom, hosted the 9th International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering (ICASSE 2025), on 29-31 July 2025. This event was jointly organised with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Technical University of

Assistant Professor Shin Sunmi has been named among the Nanoscale 2023 Emerging Investigators by the journal Nanoscale, highlighting rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Her paper, Enhanced far-field coherent thermal emission using mid-infrared bilayer metasurfaces, was featured by the journal in a themed collection of research contributions highlighting “the very best work from researchers in the early stages of

Countries have pledged zero emissions by 2050 but the means to get there are vague. Businesses need specific details on the decarbonisation of economies to align their own strategies, to raise and make investments, and to participate with impact. To read the full article by Professor Seeram Ramakrishna and Dalson Chung: Engineering Singapore’s green future

A trial in Bishan and Sin Ming to collect recyclables using smart boxes has managed to cut the contamination rate of their contents to just 5 per cent – far lower than the national average of 40 per cent. Professor Seeram Ramakrishna (NUS Mechanical Engineering), who chairs the Circular Economy Taskforce at the National University

Prof Seeram Ramakrishna and Asst Prof Sing Swee Leong from NUS Mechanical Engineering have been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers in the latest Highly Cited Researchers 2022 List published by data analytics firm Clarivate, among the world’s most influential scientific minds. They are among 18 highly cited researchers from the College of

Assoc Prof Palani Balaya (left) receives the certificate from Dr Mrityunjay Singh, President, World Academy of Ceramics   Congrats to NUS ME Associate Professor Palani Balaya! A/Prof Balaya has been conferred the title of Academician by the World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), and was officially inducted during CIMTEC 2022 – 15th International Conference on Modern

[This article first appeared on NUS News.] Imagine swallowing a capsule or munching a cracker made from pineapple leaf fibres to lose weight at a fraction of the cost of fat burners currently available in the market. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has come up with an innovative

[First published on NUS CDE.] One of Prof Cecilia Laschi’s passions is studying how the octopus can help inspire more advanced and capable soft robots (Photo credit: Jennie Hills, The Science Museum, London) Professor Cecilia Laschi is a robotics professor at the College of Design and Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. In this Q&A she gives us

Assoc Prof Ong Soh Khim is featured in DiscovHer 2022: “Inspiring the NeXXt Generation” by Science Centre Singapore, an event organised in celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science that falls on 11 February every year. Find out more at https://www.science.edu.sg/whats-on/workshops-activities/discovher.

  Congrats to Asst Prof Shin Sunmi for receiving the The American Ceramic Society (ACerS)’s Global Young Investigator Award! The ACerS Global Young Investigator (GYI) award recognises the outstanding young ceramic engineer and scientist whose achievements have been significant to the profession and to the general welfare of the community around the globe. As award

MIT Robotics Seminar – Robot Imagination: Affordance-based Reasoning About Unknown Objects Speaker: Prof Gregory S. Chirikjian, Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | December 17, 2021

NUS Mechanical Engineering PhD student, Zeng Qibin, is first author of the article “Breaking the Fundamental Limitations of Nanoscale Ferroelectric Characterization: Non-Contact Heterodyne Electrostrain Force Microscopy”, published in Small Methods (Volume 5, Issue 11) (Impact Factor: 14.188) by Wiley, and also featured on the inside front cover of the issue. Zeng QB and team have