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When the goings get tough, building materials get tougher... and smarter
CLIMATE CHANGE poses complex challenges for engineers. Smart and sustainable solutions are needed for a better tomorrow. Meeting such challenges, a team at the Department of Civil Engineering led by Prof Richard Liew has come out with novel solutions.
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Biocatalysts for the green era
BIOCATALYSTS CAN trigger a whole lot of beneficial effects. Being natural substances, they have their place in current times, when green is the way to go.
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Faster diagnosis with liquid crystals - within an hour
LAB-ON-A-CHIP may be more “chip-in-a-lab”. So, how does one make a lab that is truly a micro-chip? Assistant Professor Yang Kun Lin, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has the answer.
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Engineering scientists design and develop complex systems in medical research
ROBOT-ASSISTED surgery could produce better results than conventional surgery. However, though medical robots have been used in surgeries, they are not used as trainers. Believing that medical robots could also do a better job as trainers, Engineering scientists Dr Chui Chee Kong and Assoc Prof Marcelo Ang, both from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Prof Xu Jianxin from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are working towards medical robots which can teach and guide trainee surgeons.
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Dutch Prime Minister inaugurates Centre for Aquatic Science Research
THE ROAD leading to the Centre for Aquatic Science Research (CASR) near Sungei Ulu Pandan is now named Albert Winsemius Lane in honour of the late Dutch economist’s contributions to Singapore. Dr Winsemius had for 25 years, worked for the Singapore’s Government without pay, helping to draw up 10-year development plans that transformed the island into today’s high-technology, high value-added industrial hub.
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Honoured by Society of Women Engineers for her outstanding technical excellence and accomplishments
FIRST WOMAN from the Asia Pacific to be
elected an associate member of the International Academy for
Production Engineering (CIRP), one of the most elite academies
for manufacturing researchers in the world, Assoc Prof Ong Soh
Khim is once again, honoured for her contributions in
engineering.
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Prof Andrew Nee to be President of CIRP in August 2011
THE PARIS-BASED International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP)
elected Prof Andrew Nee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, as Vice-President
Elect) at their recent senate meeting in August 2009.
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Dawn of the age of electric cars
SO ARE you game to give the world a treat and drive an electric
car?
We know the world will definitely benefit with more more
affordable zero-emission cars on the road -- just that currently
the sums do not quite add up for your pocket book.
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EADS woos talent in NUS Engineering for aerospace industry
SINGAPORE’S AEROSPACE industry will get an added boost as a new scholarship agreement between the Economic Development Board (EDB), European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), NUS and the Nanyang Technological University, gets underway.
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