Amino acids are essential to life and are produced through microbial cultivation processes such as fermentation, which are costly, time consuming and require extensive separation processes. A new research breakthrough by Assoc Prof Yan Ning from NUS Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and his team is capable of producing a series of amino acids from woody […]
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Class of 2018 NUS Engineering alumni Goh Chong Swee, Kuan Jun Ren and Yeo Jun Han have achieved a major step forward – they have created Asia’s first fully solar-powered quadcopter drone! Utilising solar power with no battery or other energy storage on board, their current prototype has flown above 10 metres in test flights […]
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At this year’s IES (The Institution of Engineers, Singapore) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards, NUS Engineering researchers scored top honours in the following award categories: Applied Research and Development 4-IN-1 Smart Utilities Plant tailored for tropics by National University of Singapore (NUS) & King Abdullah University ofScience and Technology Citation A research breakthrough that paves the […]
Assistant Professor Hans Tan, Deputy Head of the Division of Industrial Design at NUS Design and Environment has been awarded the title of Designer of the Year at the 2018 President*s Design Awards (P*DA).
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Chester Seet has been a Robotics Engineer with the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) for the past five years. Four of those years were spent juggling his full-time role at A*STAR programming industrial robots with lectures, tutorials, assignments and examinations alongside his classmates in the Bachelor […]
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NUS topped the 2018 Times Higher Education (THE) Asia-Pacific University Rankings consecutively for the second year. The University has achieved the accolade since the category was introduced in 2017. This comes on as more good news as earlier NUS had ranked 11th worldwide and first in Asia in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings […]
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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