A/Prof Duong Hai Minh (centre) and team with their aerogels Congrats to Associate Professor Duong Hai Minh and team for winning the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award! The winning project, titled “Recycling Various Wastes into High-Valued Engineering Aerogel Materials”, entails the creation of light and strong aerogels from a variety of waste materials such as

Heartiest congratulations to the BeeX team for winning the top prize in the fourth Smart Port Challenge organised by PIER71! BeeX CEO and co-founder Ms Grace Chia, also an NUS Mechanical Engineering alumna, received the award from Mr Chee Hong Tat, Senior Minister of State for Transport and Foreign Affairs (pictured) on 17 November 2020.

Professor Seeram Ramakrishna from NUS Mechanical Engineering is once again (since 2014) named among the world’s most highly cited researchers in the latest list of Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 by Clarivate. Prof Seeram R is among 13 highly cited researchers from NUS Engineering, and among 25 from NUS. Congrats! Read more

This blurb was first published on NUS Engineering. Did you know NUS Engineering has four dedicated and certified career advisors on-site to support all students in their career aspirations, from resume critique, mock interviews, to guidance on internship and networking? Read how our recent NUS Mechanical Engineering alumnus landed a job in these difficult times, with some

This article was first published on NUS News. Pineapples are rich in vitamins, enzymes and antioxidants, and they are considered one of the most important fruits in the world. However, the harvesting of this delicious and healthy fruit results in tons of pineapple leaves waste which are usually left to rot or are burned. This

Congrats to Asst Prof Shin Sunmi for being awarded the University of California San Diego (UCSD) 2020 Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal! The award recognises outstanding doctoral research at UCSD. Dr Shin Sunmi is one awardee from the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, of where she’s an alumna. Award recipients were also recognised at UC San Diego’s

This was first published on NUS Engineering news. Researchers led by NUS Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Lee Poh Seng have developed a high-efficiency hybrid cooling solution for ‘green’ data centres, achieving a near-ideal partial power usage effectiveness score. The team has now incorporated a company, CoolestDC Pte Ltd, to commercialise this technology.   Read more

(Article from http://news.nus.edu.sg/research/worlds-first-aerogels-made-scrap-rubber-tyres)   Image: A team of NUS researchers led by Assoc Prof Duong Hai-Minh (front row, first from left) and Prof Nhan Phan-Thien (front row, centre), developed the world’s first aerogels made from scrap rubber tyres A team of NUS researchers has achieved a major technological breakthrough by converting waste rubber tyres into

Associate Professor Chua Kian Jon, Ernest and his industry collaborator Ecoline Solar Pte Ltd were conferred the prestigious ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award 2019 at the 37th Conference of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations (CAFEO) held from 10 to 14 September 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia.  In August 2019, the collaborators also received the Prestigious

Winners of the PIER71 Smart Port Challenge Grand Final, 7 November 2019. Dr Vivek Premandhan (middle, 6th from left) and team (Peter Farouk Ramzy Beshay, Nisim Shushan) received the Top Prize from Guest-of-Honour SMS Dr Lam Pin Min (5th from left). NUS Mechanical Engineering Research Fellow, Dr Vivek Kolladikkal Premandhan, has won the top prize

Congrats to the Bumbleebee AUV team for achieving Best Static Judging at Robosub 2019!   Read More   The BumbleBee team with their Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) at San Diego.   About RoboSub RoboSub is an international competition designed to advance the development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and develop relationships between young engineers and

Read the feature here.