Pioneer batch of ME 3+1+1 students welcomed at NUSRI (Suzhou)

Image: Prof Nhan Phan-Thien, Head of Department of NUS Mechanical Engineering (center, 1st row) and Prof Khoo Boo Cheong, Director of NUS Temasek Labs (2nd from left, 1st row), with the first batch of ME 3+1+1 students.

NUS Research Institute (Suzhou) welcomed its new students at a ceremony held on 3 September 2018. Among them are the pioneer batch of 26 students who will embark on the NUS Mechanical Engineering 3+1+1 education programme. The group consists of students from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Chongqing University, Jilin University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Soochow University, and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. The students will take one-year bridging courses at NUSRI and finish their bachelor degrees at their home universities before joining NUS Mechanical Engineering as Master of Science students.

Read more at (article in Chinese): http://bit.ly/nusriwelcome2018

Details of the ME 3+1+1 educational framework can be found here.

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