FACTS & FIGURES

Faculty & Staff
(as of December 2005)

Staff   Administrative Staff 52 Non-Academic Staff 328 TOTAL 380     Administrative Staff   Senior Managers 2 Managers 3 Assistant Managers 4 Senior Administrative Officers 15 Senior Safety Officers 1 Administrative Officers 27 TOTAL 52     Non-Academic Staff   Principal Lab Officers 18 Senior Lab Officers 54 Lab Officers 140 Technical Support Officers 3 Management Support Officers 100 Operations Support Officers 13 TOTAL 328     National Day 2005 Honours Mdm Sarimah bte Mustafa (Dept. of Civil Engineering) and Ms Wong Chow Ling (Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering), recipients of the Efficiency Medal.

Faculty 288 Other Teaching Staff 53 Adjunct Staff 71 Research Staff 255 TOTAL 667     Full-Time Teaching Faculty   Professors 57 Associate Professors 140 Assistant Professors 86 Senior Lecturers 5 TOTAL 288     All Full-Time faculty members are PhD degree holders. Undergraduate Student (EFTE)/ Academic Staff (FTE) ratio – 13:1 Total Student (EFTE) /Academic Staff (FTE) ratio – 20:1 Undergraduate Student (EFTE)/ Postgraduate (EFTE) ratio – 1.8:1 Graduate students EFTE = FTE Full-time = 1 Part-time = 0.5 Staff (FTE = EFTE) depending on joint appointment NUS Faculty of Engineering (FoE) undergraduate students EFTE = Σ module MC taken in FoE + 0.2 Σ module MC taken outside FoE / Σ module MC taken in the year Students from other NUS faculties EFTE = 0.8 Σ module MC taken in FoE/ Σ module MC taken in the year

Education

Research

Research Reputation/Achievements 310 editorial positions held with international journals Asian Network for Quality’s 19th Asia Quality Symposium Best Paper Award Institution of Civil Engineers’ (ICE, UK) James Watt Medal American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE, USA) The Norman Medal Society of Biotechnology’s (Japan) Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize Daimler Chrysler and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) Mondialogo Engineering Awards-Special Jury Recognition Transportation and Development Institute of American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE, USA) Frank M Masters Transportation Engineering Award International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures’ (IASS) 3rd IASS Hangai Prize American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) 2005 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award IEEE Computational Intelligence Society’s 2005 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems Best Student Paper Award Materials Research Society of Singapore’s International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 2005 Best Poster Award Research Funding (Funding figures shown are as of 30 November 2005, unless otherwise indicated) Total of S$25.08 million in research grants attracted, 52% from Academic Research Fund (ARF) [provided by Ministry of Education] and 48% from external sources Major funding received from external sources include: - S$6.47 million from A*STAR; - S$2.74 million from Industry; - S$1.37 million from A*STAR Research Institutes; - S$0.69 million from Defence Agencies; - S$0.51 million from Joint R&D fund with MPA Research funding for all on-going projects amounted to S$114.03 million; 68% due to external grants Research scholarships received (as of December 2005) amounted to S$21 million

Total Research Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005/2006 Period  reported 1 April-30 November 2005       Academic Research Fund S$13.1 million 52% External Grants S$12.0 million 48% TOTAL S$25.1 million 100%       Total Research Grants for ALL On-going Projects in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005/2006 Period  reported 1 April-30 November 2005       Academic Research Fund S$36.9 million 32% External Grants S$77.1 million 68% TOTAL S$114 million 100%

Patents and Commercialisation

• 66 patents filed for innovative engineering discoveries; 26 patents granted during the same period
• 12 technologies or products commercialised
• 4 companies set up to commercially exploit research results

Strategic Alliances

Partnership with Industry

• Korean LG Micron Ltd is funding research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) on superparamagnetic ferrite nanoparticles
• Honda is funding research in the Department of Civil Engineering (CE) on demand forecasting and vehicle relocation models
• Samsung is funding research in the ECE Department on flash memory devices
• Think Composites, Inc is funding research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) on impact damage in laminated composites
• Micron Technology Foundation, Inc is funding research in the ME Department on impact response of materials and structures in electronic packaging
• Chrontel, Inc is funding research in the ECE Department on microelectronics
• Nippon Sheet Glass Foundation is funding research in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) on planar defects in selfassembled three-dimensional photonic crystals
• Mitutoyo Association for Science and Technology is funding research in the ME Department on on-machine measuring device for micro fabrication
• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited is funding research in the ECE Department on full silicidation metal-gate electrode on silicon-oxynitride gate dielectric
• StemLife Sdn Bhd is funding research in the Division of Bioengineering on expansion of cord blood hematopoietic stem cells
• Sony Electronics (Singapore) is funding research in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) on hard magnetic thick films
• GrahamTek Singapore Pte Ltd is funding research in the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering (DESE) on effect of GrahamTek flow distributor on performance of reverse osmosis process for desalination
• QT Technology is funding research in the ECE Department on etching process development
• Hyflux Ltd is funding research in the ChBE Department on nanoporous flexible hollow fibres for membrane bioreactors
• Eurochem Technologies Corporation Pte Ltd is funding research in the ChBE Department on catalyst(s) systems

Partnership with A*STAR Research Institutes

• Joint research laboratories established between our ChBE Department and A*STAR’s Bioprocessing Technology Institute; and between our ECE Department and A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research

Partnership with Overseas Institutions

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Nevada, University of London, Cambridge University, New York University and the Faculty for research on nanoparticles of bio-degradable polymers
• University of British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Singapore General Hospital, National Cancer Centre, Singapore and the Faculty for research on cancer detection
• Two Eastern European universities, Moscow State University, Russia and Warsaw University of Technology and the Russian Academy of Sciences are working with the Faculty under the International Relations Office Eastern Europe Research Scientists and Students Programme on various areas of research
• University of Minnesota, USA, Data Storage Institute, Nanyang Technological University and the Faculty for research on storage and retrieval system for large-scale multimedia applications
• Military Medical University, Vietnam and the Faculty for research on nanoarray devices
• Shipbuilding Research Centre of Japan, Kyoto University, Japan, Marine & Port Authority of Singapore, Surbana International Consultants Pte Ltd and the Faculty for research on mega-floating structure
• Joint Genome Institute, USA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA and the Faculty for research on metagenomics-enabled analysis of thermophilic terephthalate-degrading syntrophic methanogenic community

Global University Partnerships

• University of Tokyo and ECE Department on non-linear precision control of NANO telemanipulation
• Yale University and ECE Department on adapture control research
• ETH Zurich and ChBE Department on optimal design of varicol processes for chiral drug separation
• ETH Zurich and CE Department on geotechnical engineering
• University of California, Berkeley, Norwegian University of Science & Technology and CE Department on geotechnical engineering and offshore engineering
• University of Tokyo, Kyoto University and CE Department on structural engineering and infrastructure systems research
• Stanford University and ME Department on mechanics of aerospace composites
• Cambridge University and ME Department and Institute of Microelectronics on robustness of both handheld electronic products and electronic chips against drop impact
• NUS-MIT-Institut Pasteur and ME Department and Division of Bioengineering on how malaria disease can cause red blood cells to become rigid and sticky, leading to the severe clogging of blood vessels and capillaries in the human body.

Operating Budget - FY2005

Space & Facilities

New Space

Location	Facilities	Gross Floor Area (GFA)
E3A Level 7	Bioengineering Lab	1504 sq m
E3A Level 5	Materials Science & Engineering Lab	1504 sq m
E3A Level 4	Department of Materials Science & Engineering Office Division of Bioengineering Office Engineering Science Programme Office Centre for Management of Science & Technology Staff Rooms (16 Rooms)	1504 sq m
E3A Level 2	Info-Com and Info-Tech Initiative	650 sq m

Milestones