NUS Engineering has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Big Data Exchange (BDx), a Pan Asian data centre cluster and Sembcorp Marine to explore the feasibility of developing groundbreaking sustainable ocean data centers. This strategic alliance also seeks to address the growing climate and sustainability challenges facing the data centre industry and environment. Under the MOU,

Image: Prof Gregory Chirkjian (left), Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, receiving the donation cheque from Dr Wu Ya Jun (middle), Chairperson for NUS Staff Club, witnessed by A/Prof Lee Kim Seng (right), Vice-Chairman for NUS Staff Club. The NUS Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME Dept) has received from NUS Staff Club, a gift

Academic book “An Introduction to Circular Economy” is one of ten winning titles for the 2021 Springer Nature China New Development Awards. Congratulations to the books’ editors, Dr Liu Lerwen (King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi) and Prof Seeram Ramakrishna (Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore)! The awards highlight significant research in facilitating

NUS mechanical engineering student Lau Jin Ming combined his love for cycling and tech and built an AI chip that steers his bicycle for him. He doesn’t use the AI chip during his foodpanda deliveries due to regulations, but Jin Ming is already envisioning other AI-assisted possibilities, such as programming a chip that can ring

Our ME student team has bagged the Bronze award in the 9th National Assistive & Rehabilitation Technology Student Innovation Challenge (ARTSIC) (Design category) with their design of a one arm drive manual wheelchair. Great job! The team consists of the following NUS mechanical engineering students:- C S Divyapriya Dumlao Antonino III Perez Jonathan Lim Ming

Life3 Biotech (Life3) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to incorporate electrospinning technology into food tech. It will be a world’s first foray to integrate electrospinning into comestibles, which aims to emulate the realistic bite of fish fillet and meat jerky with

Congratulations to our Mechanical Engineering (ME) undergraduate students Darren Lim, Ho Min Kent and Mitchell Chan for winning the IKEA Southeast Asea’s Young Designer Award 2021! The challenge called for ideas to tackle food waste, and the team came out tops with their project “U-Life”. Mitchell also shared about his team’s winning design on MoneyFM

[This article first appeared on NUS Engineering.] Metals are some of the most widely used materials in the world, found in everything from cookware to computers. Every day metal waste is produced, from scrap metal in manufacturing to metal content in discarded old electronics. As a step towards mitigating the environmental impact of metal waste,

Congratulations to Associate Professor Lee Poh Seng on being elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)! The fellowship is in recognition of his work in advancing knowledge in microscale flow and heat transfer, and inventing and developing technologies with applications ranging from green data centre cooling, energy efficient air conditioning and EV

Congratulations to NUS Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Tan Yu Jun on receiving the Materials Research Society (MRS) Postdoctoral Award! Dr Tan was selected for her work in “developing stretchable, self-healing materials for smart electronics”. It is the first time that a faculty from an Asian university has received the MRS Postdoctoral Award. The award recognizes

NUS Engineering recognises Faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and research through a series of awards annually. Congratulations to the following NUS Mechanical Engineering colleagues who were awarded the Engineering Educator Award and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for the Academic Year 2019/2020! Engineering Educator Award Associate Professor Chua Kian Jon, Ernest Dr. Md

Congratulations to Team Wheely (consisting of NUS Mechanical Engineering recent alumni Jerron, Jin Heng, Manfred, Randall, and Sean) for winning the Gold award at the 14th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe)’s Global Student Innovation Challenge! The team designed a wheelchair rain canopy that is able to shield wheelchair users and their