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THE water-absorbing gel developed by Asst Prof Tan Swee Ching and his team from NUS Materials Science & Engineering could prevent mouldy walls and make waiting at the bus stops during hot days more comfortable.

The annual NUS Division of Industrial Design Graduation Show returned to the National Design Centre on 1 June 2018 with 49 innovative projects by DID’s graduating cohort and undergraduates, intended to make everyday challenges a little simpler.

THE NUS FSAE team came in at 13th position worldwide (out of 120 teams) at the annual Formula SAE International Challenge held in Michigan, USA (9 to 12 May 2018). It also attained success in the following categories: Rank no.3 for Brake Design Award, presented by Akebono Brake Corporation (Specialty Award) Rank no. 3 for […]

NUS honoured its best in education, research and service at the University Awards 2018 held on 14 May 2018. Among them was Asst Prof Zhao Dan, from NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, who received the Young Researcher Award in recognition of his work in the field of advanced porous materials and membranes. Asst Prof Zhao’s […]

THE NUS team (NUS AR Lab), comprising NGS PhD students, Terence Siew, Miko Chang and He Fan, supervised by Assoc Prof Soh Khim Ong and Prof Andrew Nee from NUS Mechanical Engineering, won the top prize from 147 entries worldwide to clinch the Champion of the 2018 HILTI IT Competition with theme Augmented Reality (AR) […]

NUS Engineering has been lauded for its educational leadership in the recently published “Global state of the art in engineering education” report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the only university outside of US and northern Europe to feature among the world’s top 10. Cited as a “current and emerging leader in the field”, […]

TODAY, Dean Chua Kee Chaing presented awards for research, teaching and service excellence to Engineering faculty members at the Faculty’s Awards Ceremony. As benefitting the no-nonsense practical engineers they all are, the event was not a glitzy formal affair but a time to congratulate colleagues, and share in their achievements. This was the first time […]

In the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject 2018, four NUS Engineering subjects were ranked among the top 10. They are: Subject World Ranking 2018 Civil & Structural Engineering 6 Materials Science 8 Chemical Engineering 9 Electrical & Electronic Engineering 10 NUS is the only Asian university to gain a position in QS […]

The NUS School of Design & Environment has signed an MOU with leading global filtration specialist, MANN_HUMMEL on 7 Feb 2018.

The NUS School of Design & Environment has signed an MOU with Kajima Corporation on 6 Feb 2018.

PROFESSOR Zhang Yong and Assistant Professor John Ho, who are respectively from NUS Biomedical Engineering and NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a way to wirelessly deliver light into deep regions of the body to activate light-sensitive drugs for photodynamic therapy (PDT), a powerful light-induced cancer treatment. PDT is often limited to surface cancers […]

NUS Engineering and the DSO National Laboratories (DSO) jointly launched the Satellite Technology and Research Centre (STAR) on Thursday, 25 January 2018. The new state-of-the-art centre will develop cutting-edge capabilities in distributed satellite systems, with a focus on flying multiple small satellites in formation or a constellation. The new centre, which was inaugurated by Professor […]