27 August 2021
Winners

Bronze award for ME students’ wheelchair design in Assistive & Rehabilitation Tech Challenge

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:-

  1. C S Divyapriya
  2. Dumlao Antonino III Perez
  3. Jonathan Lim Ming En
  4. Lee Chun Yin
  5. Tan Gee Teng

(Top winners of ARTSIC were due to represent Singapore to compete with students worldwide, in the Global Student Innovation Challenge (gSIC) in Thailand in December 2021, but the event has since been cancelled due to the current COVID-19 situation.)

 

Winners of the 9th ARTSIC (Design Category)
The award ceremony was held on 13 August 2021.

The team’s project, “Rock N’ Roll Wheelchair”, is a design of a one arm drive manual wheelchair:

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