Congrats to A/Prof Ernest Chua and Ecoline Solar Pte Ltd for winning the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award for their collaborative project titled “Next Generation of Hybrid Air Conditioners for Tropics – Cooling with Heat”! The award was presented at the World Engineers Summit (WES) 2019 Conference Dinner held on 29 August 2019 at the

The team receiving their Silver Award from Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of the Kingdom of Thailand. Congrats to NUS Mechanical Engineering students Alexander Tan Yong Meng (Group leader), Chew Hui Yong Kester, Lim Shu Yong, Eugene Pang Yuan Jing and Joshua Goh Yong Sheng! The team clinched the Silver award (2nd place,

Congrats to A/Prof Duong Hai Minh and team, whose work on PET aerogels has won the TechConnect Innovation Award. The award was presented at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo, Boston, USA, 17-19 June 2019. The team developed a way to turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight PET aerogels that are suitable for various

NUS Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Lee Heow Pueh (left) and ME PhD candidate Mr Ang Yinn Leng have come up with a novel, customisable noise reduction block design and mobile application that could effectively cut down low frequency noise disturbance. Read more

ACerS Award Winner (Society Fellow) – A/Prof Palani Balaya Associate Professor Palani Balaya has been elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). Upon the recommendation by a Panel of Fellows, the ACerS Board of Directors unanimously approved his selection. The 2019 Class of Fellows at ACerS comes from an international cross-section of

Team MechFly from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) clinched 2nd Place in the 2019 Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC), Category E (Unconventional). The event was held at ITE College Central on 22 March 2019. SAFMC is an annual competition organised by DSO National Laboratories and Science Centre Singapore, and consists of several categories,

See the feature by Lianhe Zaobao: https://www.zaobao.com.sg/zvideos/lifestyle/story20190306-937174 (Video and article is in Mandarin.)

Sustainable cooling for all Speaker: Associate Professor Ernest Chua, NUS Mechanical Engineering | 26 Feb 2019 At this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos, Associate Professor Chua from NUS Engineering presented on his technological innovation – a novel and more efficient air conditioner that uses water and membranes to cool the air without producing

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Image: A/Prof Ernest Chua receiving the Best Paper Award for his paper titled “A hybrid air conditioning system employing membrane dehumidification and dew-point cooling” Associate Professor Chua Kian Jon Ernest, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NUS, was conferred the Best Paper Award at the recent IEEE-organised “International Conference on Green Energy for Sustainable Development

Image: Minister Chan announced the formation of the Cooling Energy Science and Technology Singapore (CoolestSG) Consortium at the Opening Ceremony of the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) on 30 October 2018. Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Chan Chun Sing, at the Opening Ceremony of the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) on 30 October 2018, announced