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NUS Faculty of Engineering has been ranked among the world’s top 20 universities for five of seven Engineering subjects according to ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 published on 15 June. It is in the top five in the world for Energy Science & Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. Speaking on NUS’ stellar performance, NUS

According to the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject, NUS is placed third in the world for civil and structural engineering and fifth in the world for Chemical Engineering. NUS has nine other subjects, including material science, chemistry, biological sciences and geography, that made the global top 10. The University, which is the best-performing

Assistant Professor Tan Swee Ching at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been the Resident Fellow at Temasek Hall since July 2020. It has been a great challenge for Dr Tan and his family to move into Temasek Hall in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many classes have gone online to reduce

In May 2021, Hue Do, a year 2 PhD student in A/P Michel Bosman’s group, received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Singapore Mentorship Program 2020. Hue mentored 3 Secondary students from the Raffles Institute (Guan En, Jiunn Jye and Sathyaram – see photo) in their study of hot electron dynamics in plasmonic nanostructures. The

Associate Professor Daria Andreeva-Baeumler joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an Associate Professor on 1 September 2019. Prior to this, she was a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials. She is a physical chemist who applies her knowledge in the context of development and investigation of dynamic stimuli

“Our heartiest congratulations to our alumni Ms Cherie Tan, class of 2013, for winning the Gold in the Masters Category of the World Bowling Women’s Championship on August 30th, 2019. She is the first Singaporean to win the title. Photo credit: Terence Yaw ” More Details

Professor Silvija Gradecak-Garaj joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering as a full Professor on 15 July 2019. She was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she held the position of Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. At NUS, she concurrently holds the appointment of Director in the Office of the Deputy

Assistant Professor Benjamin Tee group’s work featured as cover of Science Robotics  

Assistant Professor Benjamin Tee from NUS Materials Science and Engineering and NUS iHealthtech were among 21 young scientists from 10 countries selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to be in the Class of 2019 Young Scientists. Details

Welcome Dr He Qian on-boarding the Department of Materials Science and Engineering starting on 1 July 2019.

Professor Barbaros Ozyilmaz will be joining the Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) as the Head of Department with effect from 1 July 2019. Prof Ozyilmaz who joined NUS in the Department of Physics has been associated with the Department of MSE through a courtesy joint appointment since 2015. He is a highly prolific

Warmly welcome Professor Sir Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov, a Nobel Laureate, to join our department as a Distinguish Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Novoselov received his Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 in recognition of his contribution “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. At NUS, Prof Novoselov will lead a new research