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Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
National University of Singapore

February 2006
People
Achievements & Honours
Prof Chou Siaw Kiang was elevated to the grade of Fellow at the 2006 Winter Meeting of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), which was held in Chicago from 21 to 25 Jan 06. This is an honour accorded to less than 1% of the 55,000 membership of ASHRAE.
Prof Arun Mujumdar was the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Ceremony of the 4th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC05) in Kolkata, India from 12 to 15 December 2005. He was also recently appointed Consulting Editor of the Journal of Drying Technology and Equipment (China), the International Journal of Post Harvest Technology and Innovation (Switzerland) and the International Journal of Food Engineering, USA.
Promotions

Congratulations are due to our two colleagues who were promoted to Professors!

Prof B.C. Khoo is actively involved in research in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Numerical Methods. He is also currently Program Chair, HPCES (High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems) Thrust of SMA (Singapore-MIT Alliance) and has been an SMA Fellow since 1999.
Prof Shu Chang works in the areas of Computational Mathematics and Fluid Dynamics. He is currently an Associate Editor of Computers, Materials & Continua.  Besides his many journal publications, he is the author of the book, 'Differential Quadrature and Its Application in Engineering', London, Springer-Verlag, 2000. 


We warmly congratulate our colleague, Dr Quan Chenggen for his recent promotion to Associate Professor. 

Dr Quan is a faculty member in the Applied Mechanics Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.  His current research includes work in Optical NDT, MEMS, Fringe Analysis, Image Processing, 3-D deformation measurement of MEMS materials and structures using optical techniques.
 
 
Visiting Staff

The Department warmly welcomes the following::

Prof Clarence de Silva, Visiting Prof, 30.12.04
Prof Juan Manuel Lopez, Visiting Prof, 05.01.05

New Staff

The Department welcomes the following new staff members who have recently joined us:

Teaching Instructor

Dr Tang Yaxin, Sep 2005

Teaching Assistants

Raymond Khong, Aug 2005
Victor Tan, Aug 2005

Administrative Officer

Lim Wee Lee, Dec 2005

Management Support Officer

Koh Puay Ling, Feb 2006

Visitors on Short Term Appointment

The Department is also pleased to host the following visitors:

Prof Oussama Khatib, Visiting Professor
Dr Loh Wai Lam, Visiting Senior Scientist
Dr Etienne Burdet, Visiting Senior Fellow

 

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