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ME Prof M.O. Lai receives Distinguished Award from Singapore Accreditation Council!
Prof Lai Man On received the Distinguished Award from the Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC) at a ceremony on 5 November 2007. The Guest of Honour at the ceremony was Mr S. Iswaran, Minister of State for Trade & Industry. The award was for dedicated service over the last 14 years in getting mechanical testing laboratories in Singapore to follow international accepted standards. |
Latest News Two ME teams won awards at the National IQC Convention held at
SPRING on 29 August 2007 in recognition of the high quality of service they have
provided at NUS. The awards will be presented to the teams on the NUS Quality
Service Day, 24 January 2008. Team 061 comprising technical staff, Mrs. Ooi,
Ms Tshin, Hamidah and Kok Seng, won the Silver Award. Team 062, comprising Mr Alvin
Goh, Joe Low, Cheng Kok Seng and Amy Chee Sui Cheng, won the Bronze Award.
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ME Student, Weng Jinquan awarded Micron Scholarship!
ME4 student, Weng Jinquan received a Micron scholarship award from its Managing Director, Mr Jen Kwong Hwa at a ceremony on 6 November 2007! Prof T.S. Lee, Deputy Head (Academic) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and current Micron Scholars, Kee Wei Loon and Li Yida were present at the award ceremony at the premises of Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd. Micron is one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions and awards scholarships to students currently studying at a university in Singapore. Candidates are selected on the basis of leadership qualities and academic performance, and are expected to work for Micron Semiconductor Asia after their graduation. |
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ME Team wins the national WSHBPA Innovation Award 2007
A 3-member team comprising Messrs Sacadevan Raghavan and Cheng Kok Seng, and Mrs Hung-Ang Yan Leng, won the Workplace Safety & Health Best Practices Awards (WSHBPA) 2007 - Innovation Award (Noise Control Solutions category) for their project on “Noise Reduction for Atmospheric Freeze Drying Process”. The national-level award recognises companies and organisations for their efforts in eliminating or controlling workplace safety and health hazards. The Workplace Safety & Health Awards presentation ceremony was held on 12 October 2007 at Grand Hyatt Hotel and was graced by Dr Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Defence. |
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NUS Formula SAE Race Car Team returns safely after an eventful competition!
The NUS Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Race Car Team returned from an eventful competition in Romeo, Michigan, USA, greatly enriched though somewhat disappointed as their race car (No. 78) finished 78 overall, having decided to forgo the crucial 22 km endurance event. This difficult decision was made although the team had succeeded in re-designing and re-fabricating a new drive train to replace a damaged differential gear system of the car, all within the space of 30 hours. Team Advisor, Prof KH Seah remarked that this feat of engineering speed was "comparable to Mozart composing his Linz symphony in just three days"! Of 130 race car teams that entered the competition, the NUS team had achieved 10th position for presentation and tied in 14th place with a number of other teams in the design aspect of the competition. Everything had been going smoothly until a practice run on 17 May 07 by team member Heng Lee, during which the TORSEN differential gear housing wall gave way, damaging the worm gears inside. The worm gears had apparently misengaged and hit against the differential gear housing wall - another case of Murphy's Law at work! Prof Seah's "never-say-die final year guys" then went well beyond the call of duty, sacrificing much sleep in responding to the difficult situation. Despite the disappointment of not being able to complete all events in the race, the team valued the experience and learnt a lot about engineering design from the competition, especially from the judges' feedback. MORE: Tue 22 May 07 (Final Report of the FSAE 2007 Competition) |
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ME Graduate Student wins Tan Kah Khee Young Inventors' Award - 2007!
ME graduate student, Abu Bakar Md Ali Asad received the Commendation Award (Open Section) of the 2007 Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award on 26 May 2007 for the invention “On-Machine Fabrication of Ultra Sharp Tool for Machining High-Aspect-Ratio Micro-Feature”. The objective of this patent pending invention is to develop techniques for fabrication of high aspect ratio micro feature using microturning process which has potential applications in micro mechanics, MEMS and biomedical areas. The Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award was first mooted by Nobel Laureate Professor C.N. Yang in May 1986. The award seeks to stimulate creativity among the young generation and to promote scientific and technological research in Singapore. |
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NUS enters Southeast Asia's first eco-car in Shell Eco-Marathon!
The NUS eco-car, HOPE07 was developed by an NUS team led by ME faculty member, Prof Lu Wen Fang in partnership with HOPE Technik (an engineering solutions provider founded by ME alumni, Peter Ho and Michael Leong) and DSO Laboratories. HOPE07 is South-East Asia's first eco-car to compete in the competition at the Nogaro Racing Circuit in France from 11 to 13 May 07. MORE: Southeast Asia's first
eco-car to compete in Shell Eco-Marathon |
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ME Faculty Members attend Washington Accord Celebration Dinner
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ME EAB Accreditation Committee joined the Head of Department, Prof SC Lim at a dinner
hosted by the Engineering Accreditation Board (EAB) of IES on 28 Mar 07 at the Grand
Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. The dinner was organised to celebrate the entry of
Singapore in the Washington Accord as a full signatory in June 2006. Mr Tharman
Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Education and Second Minister for Finance, was the
Guest-of-Honour for this joyous occasion. Prof Lim was amongst the Heads of
Engineering Departments at NUS who received accreditation certificates for the respective
engineering disciplines offered by their Departments. With membership of the
Washington Accord, the accredited programs in any of the signatory countries are
recognized by the other countries as having met the academic requirements for entry to the
practice of engineering. The full signatory countries/territories include Australia,
Canada, Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom
and the United States. MORE: Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam joins IES in Washington Accord Celebration |
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Eco-friendly inventions of ME students get attention of the Press!
The 7 ME team members are spending 6 months with a company, which manufactures fabric, which has minute particles of bamboo charcoal in its weave. The team has two inventions using the company's fabric. One invention is a sleeping pack, which combines the essentials of a backpack and a sleeping bag for mountaineers. The other is a pair of changeable slippers, which will allow the user to create three different looks, simply by adjusting the straps! The two inventions were reported in a Straits Times article on 17 May 07, entitled, "NUS team gets a helping hand from alumnus". |
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Five-volume Handbook edited by Professor A,S, Mujumdar just published!
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ME Alumnus, Phua Boon Wee shares his experience of working in a multi-national off-shore company!
ME Alumnus, Phua Boon Wee from the class of 2003 shares his experience with the multinational company, FMC Technologies, which he joined after graduating. Within 5 months, was whisked off to the largest and supposedly the 'most dangerous' state in the US, Texas! He found the one year that he eventually spent in Houston, Texas as probably been the most enriching time of his life so far. Now, back home as a subsea applications engineer, he works in project teams just like the design teams for projects during his school years. Project work reminds him of the several intriguing design projects he and his friends had to undertake in their days in NUS, and the unforgettable 'Fishing rod' and the 'Hull crawler' that they had to design! Three years after graduation, his memories of those long and frustrating but yet hugely enriching and fruitful days spent in the Pavilion outside the Design Laboratory remain just as fresh. To him, it really felt at times that it was only yesterday that he graduated and the hunger he felt in those days for greater self-exposure, knowledge and experience remains just as strong if not stronger! MORE: My first job - the most enriching experience of my life
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