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In this Issue

Congratulations to EEE and MSE for reaching the top 10 in the world

An Exclusive Interview with Professor Tim White on NTU’s First Foray into Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

College-Supported Industry Collaboration

Corporate Lab Scheme Project with Daioh Shinyo Co., Ltd, Japan

Inspiring the Young: Learning Journeys for Yishun Junior College (YJC) Year 1 Students

It’s a Guy’s Thing

Amplifying Ambitions with NTU

Flying High at the Singapore Airshow 2014

On a Winning Streak at Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2014

Nanyang Awards 2013 Winners

Congratulations to Professor Nripan Mathews

CoE at a Glance (January to March 2014) a) School and Faculty Achievements b) Visitors to CoE

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Congratulations to EEE and MSE for reaching the top 10 in the world We have outdone ourselves again! According to the 2014 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject, released on 26 February 2014, all the engineering disciplines of NTU are among the top 30 in the world. NTU President, Professor Bertil Andersson commented, “NTU’s global reputation as one of the world’s biggest engineering university which produces top quality graduates is validated again in the high rankings of its engineering disciplines, with Materials Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering rubbing shoulders this year with the big boys such as MIT, Stanford and Cambridge in the top 10.” Materials Science discipline in NTU has rocketed to 8th in the world, representing a leap of 33 places since 2011. This showing is led by our School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) which has a strong culture in research and innovation, the highest number of spin-off companies in Singapore as well as a high employability rate for its graduates. Despite being a young and small school with respect to its counterparts, the hard work and effort of the faculty, students, alumni and staff of MSE is the principal reason for the stellar performance of the Materials Science discipline in the recent QS World University Rankings. The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), the largest school in CoE and one of the pioneering schools in NTU, has a team of faculty members with broad and varied backgrounds covering the full breadth and depth of Electrical and Electronic Engineering discipline. The school has a strong research culture combined with professional expertise, and engages actively in research and development projects as well as collaborative work with renowned overseas universities, research institutes and multinational companies. NTU has consistently been ranked among the top world Universities in the discipline of EEE. NTU jumped 26 places in the discipline of EEE from 36th in 2011 to 10th in the world in the recent 2014 QS World University Rankings. Other Engineering disciplines fared well too, with their rankings amongst the top 30 in the world as follows: Mechanical and Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering at 12th, Computer Science and Information Systems at 21st, Civil and Structural Engineering at 21st and Chemical Engineering at 25th. Well done, CoE!

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An exclusive interview with Professor Tim White on NTU’s First Foray into Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are all the rage now. NTU has also jumped on the MOOC bandwagon with Professor Tim White’s course titled Beauty, Form and Function: An Exploration of Symmetry, on 17 February 2014. The CoEHESION team reached out to Professor White from the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) to find out more about the challenges and experiences in developing this Symmetry MOOC.

What were some of the challenges faced in the development of the Symmetry MOOC and how did you overcome them? Firstly, the process of creating materials to exploit the educational advantages of the Coursera platform is not straightforward. It requires a team of videographers, animators, teaching assistants and IT experts and hence, co-ordination of these inputs is critical. A fundamental problem is the lack of pedagogical theory and research concerning MOOCs – we are still learning to design the best modes of engagement to increase participation and maximise learning. The second challenge is the management of a large class size and methods to maintain a dialogue between students and teacher, and between peers, so that students do not feel isolated. With about 18,500 registrants and 1,800 graduates for the Symmetry MOOC, this is well in excess of popular NTU campus-based courses and thus, continuous monitoring by teachers is impossible. In these circumstances, automated assessment and peer-to-peer assessment are essential. This is no small undertaking as the NTU Symmetry MOOC is presently one of a small minority of courses on the Coursera platform that can garner Academic Units towards a degree. This is pushing the envelope of what is feasible with digitally-mediated education in the delivery of accredited courses that offer a campus experience.

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Finally, despite the compatibility of Coursera with many hardware and operating system options, there is still use of unsupported variants by some students. When such compatibility issues arise, students are adversely impacted. To address these challenges, the Symmetry MOOC is incorporating and testing a number of features as follows: (1) Incorporation of two synchronous dialogue sessions to promote interaction

between the instructors and students. These proved successful and will be more frequent in future iterations of the course.

(2) Presently, peer-to-peer marking is restricted to 18% of the total assessment. These open-ended assignments are guided through video briefings and rubrics. Most students (80%) make the passing grade, but more analysis of the mark spread (each student is assessed by three peers) is required to understand the reliability of these grades.

(3) The course is made experiential by asking students to photograph patterns and objects before analysing their symmetry formally.

(4) For local students, a meet-up is organised at the mid-point of the course. Any advice to faculty members who might be embarking on MOOC? Faculty members participating in MOOCs will be learning a new style of teaching. For faculty members with a significant commitment to teaching, this is a challenge and opportunity to gain experience in an emerging pedagogical mode that is poorly-theorised. At present, there is no definite way of delivering a MOOC, and to some extent, the topic prescribes course design. However, the more successful MOOCs possess one or more of the following attributes: (1) Courses that engage students at the intersection of common knowledge,

popular culture and education prove more accessible. This implies that dumbing down the course and placing content in real-world context is necessary.

(2) Even though the MOOC platform is new, teaching must remain student-centric, and not be relegated to a secondary role through over dependence on technology. There has been a tendency to see technology writing the teacher out of the equation altogether.

(3) It is highly probable that future MOOCs teaching will be in conjunction with established teaching practices. For example, in the Symmetry MOOC there will be increasing focus on engaging the MOOC cohorts with on-campus students, and blurring the boundaries between the two groups.

(4) A powerful MOOC could simultaneously target different types of learners and offers alternative modes of educational contact with academics. For example, MOOCs may offer supplementary material for students new to a topic, or additional content to advanced learners.

(5) The integration of visual teaching is an obvious benefit of MOOC platforms, as is the possibility of students themselves to create ‘graphical’ content to share with the cohort.

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(6) One of the real challenges with the MOOC format is the extent to which student achievement is linked to the assessment methods, and special care is needed. Trialling assessment through focus groups prior to launching a MOOC is highly recommended.

What do you think is a successful MOOC course and what are its secrets? MOOCs are unlikely to achieve everything promised – the democratisation of education, or the freeing of the world’s knowledge – but pedagogical gains will result. A successful MOOC will incorporate methods that tap into the natural strengths of a MOOC platform especially: (1) Introducing new learner groups to topics that would otherwise have been closed

to them through good teaching and interesting curricula; (2) Drawing students into a university education they have not considered; and (3) Engaging unprecedented numbers through integrating social media with

university curricula. We are certain that the sharing by Professor White is very informative and beneficial to all faculty members who are contemplating to develop MOOCs!

College-Supported Industry Collaboration

High-quality Light-emitting diodes fabricated at LUMINOUS!

CoE through the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), collaborates with Lemnis Lighting Asia which originated in The Netherlands - a forerunner in sustainable lighting with LED technology, in spectrally enhanced lighting. This collaboration is to combine the technology capabilities developed in LUMINOUS, a research centre in the school of EEE and Lemnis Lighting Asia. For this collaboration, CoE funded S$200k in cash and EEE funded S$200k in PhD scholarships while Lemnis Lighting Asia funded S$240k in cash and $200k in kind. Future lighting sources are required to have low energy consumption but at high vision quality to improve the human vision experience. To achieve this, smart adjustments to the spectral composition of light are necessary to obtain the high

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luminous efficacy of optical radiation (LER) and a light source of high photometric quality. The three-year project titled “High Energy-Efficiency White Light Emitting Diodes for Spectrally Enhanced Lighting” is led by Nanyang Assoc. Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir, and involves 8 researchers and 10 PhD students. It aims to overcome the photometric performance limitations of the commercially available white light‐emitting diodes (WLEDs) and develop a new class of smart lighting systems that exhibits successful colour rendition along with the highest possible mesopic luminance and the highest possible Scotopic/Photopic (S/P) ratio. High-efficiency and high photometric quality lighting will be critical to Singapore’s efforts in reducing the carbon footprint. This could potentially save more than 50% energy if the targeted performance is met, and substantially more if smart lighting design (for example, mesopic lighting) enabled by LEDs is used. This also translates into savings of billions of dollars and hundred millions tons of greenhouse gases annually.

Corporate Lab Scheme Project with Daioh Shinyo Co., Ltd, Japan The partnership of Daioh Shinyo (Construction Company) and the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE) on the separation of fluorocompound mixtures (contributing to reduction of greenhouse gases) in January 2014 is under the second phase of NRF CREATE programme. Daioh Shinyo’s Freon (a type of fluorocompound used as refrigerant) decomposition facility is used by close to 40% of all decomposition factories in Japan. The research led by Professor Liu Bin aims to develop a simple yet economical system for the separation of fluorocompound mixtures. Such a system is currently not available in many developed countries, including Japan. While the recovery of fluorocompound gases is not an obligation yet in Southeast Asia, the findings and proliferation of results from this research will contribute significantly to the development of counter measures against the possible future emission controls of fluorocompounds into the air in this part of the world. The three-year research project is in line with the Low Carbon Tech pursuit of the School and the University’s Sustainability focus.

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Inspiring the Young: Learning Journeys for Yishun Junior College (YJC) Year 1 Students

From left to right: Attentive Students at the CoE Presentation, Students on their way for the respective school

tours

The Dean’s office, together with the School of Computer Engineering (SCE) and the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), hosted 80 YJC Year 1 students and 5 YJC teachers on 11 February 2014. This learning journey is part of YJC’s annual Global Perspective Symposium to expand the horizons of these students. The learning journey kicked off with a presentation of College of Engineering (CoE) at one of the lecture theatres in NTU, before the students embarked on school tours. At the end of the presentation, students were split into 2 groups and visited either SCE or EEE. Students who selected SCE, visited the Magix Research Centre at Research Techno Plaza (RTP), the teaching labs and the student lounge while those who selected EEE, visited Valens 1 and 2 labs. Following the school visits, students and teachers of YJC were treated to some light refreshment. They were also given the opportunity to mingle with the faculty, staff and current Engineering students who are YJC alumni. The students took the opportunity to find out more about CoE and its various programmes. At the end of the learning journey, the students were presented with goodie bags comprising brochures and gifts. We hope that this learning journey will inspire these young JC 1 students to explore an Engineering education in NTU College of Engineering in the near future.

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It’s a Guy’s Thing

Sharing of pointers and tips by the Dean and Professor Timothy Tan

From left to right: Commencement of the panel discussion, Exploring Lee Wee Nam Library

From left to right: Student ambassadors introducing the TR+, A sumptuous lunch after all the ‘exercise’

Faculty members and student ambassadors in deep discussions with the participants

March in CoE started on a high note as the first ever outreach event for Returning National Service (RNS) Men was held on 1 March 2014 at the Tan Chin Tuan Lecture

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Theatre. This event aimed to ease our RNS men back to the student life that they left behind 2 years ago as they devoted themselves to serve the nation. The Dean set the session off with a light-hearted address to welcome a whopping total of almost 200 participants in the audience. Following the Dean’s address, Professor Timothy Tan engaged the attendees, sharing the vibrant campus life and gave tips and pointers on transitioning back to student life. The highlight of the event was the panel discussion with our alumni (Mr. Chao Jang En, Joshua of MAE, Mr. Tan Zhi Quan, Aaron of EEE and Mr. Lim Zhen Long of SCBE) and current students (Mr. Huo Jiongrui of MSE, Mr. Ang Zheng Jie of CEE and Mr. Zeng Zhaosong, Glenn of SCE). Thank you to the panel members who took time off their busy schedules to share at length, their experiences in NTU with the RNS men. With personal experiences to being a freshman and student in CoE, our panellists were very much able to reach out to the audience with a mutual connection, knowing each and every concern that they may have. After the panel discussion, a walking campus tour to the TR+, Lee Wee Nam Library, Student Activities Centre (SAC) and Global Lounge was conducted for the RNS Men to familiarise them with NTU’s facilities. Following that was a sumptuous lunch when they were encouraged to mingle with our professors, staff, alumni and students. The event received very positive feedback from the attendees, such as: “I find the panel discussion really interesting and engaging, especially when the panel is made up of alumni and current students. It gave us a really good gauge and expectation of what we are about to experience in the months to come. The tips given by them were also useful in helping us to know how we can better adapt to student life after leaving school for two years.” “The campus tour was useful and engaging. I got to know various facilities. I also had the chance to interact with seniors and listen to what they have to say about the life in NTU. It was positive.” “The networking session after lunch was the most useful and engaging. It was up close and personal, allowing our questions to be answered in a more personal manner. Plus a smaller group created a more intimate session, allowing students to be more willing to speak out.” We are sure that our attendees have become much more relieved and at ease to begin a brand new chapter in life with us at the end of the event.

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Amplifying Ambitions with NTU NTU organised its annual outreach events - Let’s Talk NTU 2014 and NTU Open House 2014 at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre on 18 January 2014 and NTU Campus on 8 March 2014 respectively. Let’s Talk NTU 2014 Targeting specifically the polytechnic students, Let’s Talk NTU 2014 attracted more than 2,000 polytechnic students and their parents, enthusiastic to find out more about the exciting education opportunities awaiting them at NTU. Faculty, staff and students were engaged in discussions with the prospective polytechnic students, answering their queries pertaining to the various engineering programmes available.

Faculty, staff and students engaging prospective students at the booths and talk sessions

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NTU Open House 2014 (Life at NTU)

From left to right: Huge crowd at the engineering booths in Nanyang Auditorium, Lecture theatre that was fully

occupied for the talks.

From left to right: Prospective students queuing up for the limited edition CoE bears, Gathering point for

prospective students to embark on the school tours

From left to right: Prospective students at MSE School tour, Prospective students visiting SCE Student Lounge

NTU Open House 2014, held on 8 March 2014 was a resounding success, with over 12,000 visitors turning up for the event at NTU campus. Majority of the visitors were GCE ‘A’ Level graduate students while polytechnic and secondary school students made up the minority. Visitors streamed in since early morning and all our engineering booths at the Nanyang Auditorium were soon packed with prospective students and their parents. Visitors well utilised the valuable opportunity to interact with the faculty, staff and

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current students at the booths, asking questions pertaining to courses, admissions requirements, campus life, etc. The concurrent talk sessions at the lecture theatres were no less crowded. The talks provided much insight into the engineering schools as well as the various programmes offered by the schools. The responses for some of the talk sessions were so overwhelming that the lecture theatres were not able to accommodate all the visitors who queued up outside for the talks. Visitors were also enthusiastic and excited to redeem the limited edition CoE bear given out at the end of the talks outside the lecture theatres. School tours also saw high participation rates as the prospective students had the opportunity to view at close proximity - the school laboratories, facilities and interesting projects that were going on. It was also a good opportunity for the visitors to interact with faculty, staff and students of the specific school. We are confident that the prospective students who have attended the events, left with a better understanding of the Engineering programmes in NTU and we hope to see these students joining CoE in the near future!

Flying High at the Singapore Airshow 2014 NTU dazzled at the Singapore Airshow 2014 held from 11 to 16 February 2014 with 12 amazing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), led by Professor Low Kin Huat from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and Professor Xie Lihua from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE). The 12 quadcopters not only flew in formation within inches of each other with lights and music and executed complex indoor aerial manoeuvres, but also performed tasks and played games with the visitors.

Some of the games visitors got to play with the drones included “Hot Pursuit” where the player will drive a remote control car down a race track to avoid being hunted down by an automated UAV. Another game was the “Quad-ligraphy”, where players will write an English word or Chinese character on a tablet. Thereafter, the drone will pick

up the calligraphy brush and write the same word exactly on a large piece of paper. While most outdoor UAVs focussed mainly on "free" flying and involved only single or a small number of UAVs, the Schools’ innovative approach to manipulating control algorithms and mechanical complexity of systems led to the successful design and

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control of multiple UAVs with greater precision, adaptability and stability. This helped to place our capabilities at the cutting edge of technology. Going forward, the team will be conducting research on operating the UAVs in both GPS and non-GPS environments and exploring potential commercial opportunities such as the interest of businesses to use drones as delivery vehicles, mapping, observation, agriculture and even oil and gas discovery.

On a Winning Streak at the Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2014 This is the fifth time that NTU participated in a Shell Eco-marathon event. Since the debut of the first Nanyang Venture I solar car in 2009, NTU has been on a winning streak. In the Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2014 held at Luneta Park in Manila, Philippines from 5th to 9th February 2014, NTU was represented by two teams from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE). The two teams comprised the Nanyang Venture VI team with their diesel-powered wood car nicknamed “Wooden Wonder” and the Nanyang Venture III team with an electric-powered solar assisted car. NTU won a total of 4 awards in the four-day International Competition - a race for fuel efficiency and innovation. The string of awards won at the Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2014 is as follows:

Silver award in the Prototype Category (diesel) - Nanyang Venture VI

Award for Vehicle Design - Nanyang Venture VI

Award for Safety - Nanyang Venture VI

Award for Technological Innovation - Nanyang Venture III

Hand-built by students from laser-cut strips of wood that would absorb energy in case of impact and break up into small parts instead of fragmenting into large and dangerous shards; the Nanyang Venture VI was a fusion of art and engineering innovation. The Nanyang Venture VI also beat over 100 other international entries to win the Award in Vehicle Design and Award for

Safety. This is the fourth time NTU has won the Award for Safety in the competition. The Nanyang Venture III clinched the Award for Technological Innovation with its unique electromagnetic clutch and innovative aerodynamic design, which eliminates energy losses through the drive-train and reduces drag. Congratulations to the teams and may they do even better next time!

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Nanyang Awards 2013 Winners The Nanyang Awards are given in recognition and celebration of the outstanding achievements and contributions of faculty, staff and students. The Awards Presentation Ceremony for the Nanyang Awards 2013 winners was held at the Nanyang Auditorium on 11 March 2014, following the President’s “State of the University Address”. There were a total of 11 recipients from CoE for the Nanyang Awards 2013. Nanyang Award for Research Excellence The Award recognises an individual or team’s outstanding contributions in scientific knowledge on a global scale through novel research breakthroughs. Nanyang Assoc. Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) was conferred the Nanyang Award for Research Excellence 2013. As a recipient, Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir received a trophy, certificate, cash award of $5,000 and a research grant of $10,000 (to be used in the following year). Nanyang Education Award The highest honour conferred by the University to faculty members in the field of teaching, the Nanyang Education Award recognises the dedication and achievements of faculty members who displayed excellent teaching practices and enriched the learning experiences of NTU undergraduates. Recipients of the Nanyang Education Award (College) will receive a cash award of $5,000, a special grant of $5,000, a trophy and a certificate while those who win the Nanyang Education Award (School) will receive a cash award of $5,000, a trophy and a certificate. The following professors were the recipients for 2013: Nanyang Education Award (College) 2013 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE): Prof Ooi Kim Tiow School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE): Prof Goh Wang Ling School of Computer Engineering (SCE): Prof Goh Wooi Boon School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE): Dr Chew Ah Seng, David Nanyang Education Award (School) 2013 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE): Prof Tai Kang School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE): Prof Goh Wang Ling School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE): Prof Lydia Helena Wong School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE): Prof Wong Ngai Yuen, Louis School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE): Prof Kunn Hadinoto Ong School of Computer Engineering (SCE): Mr. Mark Yong Chuen-Tze Nanyang Award for Teamwork This award recognises teams whose outstanding teamwork in a major University project or event brought success and honour to the University. Recipients will

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receive $5,000 cash award, a trophy and a certificate. Prof Low Kay Soon’s satellite team from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) was the recipient of the Nanyang Award for Teamwork 2013. Our heartiest congratulations to all the winners!

Congratulations to Professor Nripan Mathews Since 1999, MIT Technology Review has identified top young innovators under the age of 35 and published a list named TR35. Those enlisted in TR35 annually are recognised for their contribution in transforming the nature of technology in industries such as biotechnology, energy, medicine, computing, transportation and the web. Professor Nripan Mathews from the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) has been selected as a TR35 finalist for 2014, together with 9 others from the region, which includes Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Selected TR35 finalists are young innovators who are trailblazers in their fields and leading the next generation of technological breakthroughs. Professor Mathews was presented this prestigious award for his work on perovskite solar materials. He is also a candidate for the global TR35 list, celebrated in the fall of 2014 in MIT Boston. On being selected as a TR35 finalist, Professor Mathews attributed his success to the entire research team working on the perovskite solar cells. Professor Mathews said, “Well, it is great to be recognised with the award. Although it may sound cliché, research is very much a team effort. There are many students, research staff and academic collaborators who worked together to realise the critical and significant results we have achieved. I view this award as a reflection of all of our continued efforts.” Moving forward, Professor Mathews will be looking into further uses of the perovskite solar cells such as the scaling up of these materials to make larger solar cells and panels and utilising these materials as the media for making lasers. Other areas of research include new materials development in the solar area and other solution processed electronic material sets for applications in printed flexible electronics. We wish Professor Mathews good luck in reaching the Global TR35 list!

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CoE at a Glance (January to March 2014) (a) School and Faculty Achievements Our heartiest congratulations to the following faculty members on their achievements:

Recipient School Award

Professor Adrian Law

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

2014 Karl Emil Hilgard Prize Professor Adrian Law received the 2014 Karl Emil Hilgard Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers, for the publication of the paper “Dynamics of Particle Clouds in Ambient Current with Application to Open-Water Sediment Disposal” in ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering in 2013, together with his co-authors, Jim Gensheimer and Eric Adams from MIT.

EEE team ACES 1 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)

EEE team ACES 1 won the Category D Semi-Autonomous Championship Award (2nd place) and the Best Performance Award at the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition 2014.

Nanyang Assoc. Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)

Appointed as an Optics Express Editor by the OSA Board of Editors.

Professor Tan Chuan Seng

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)

Invitation to serve on the editorial board of Microelectronics Journal (MEJ), Elsevier.

Professor Freddy Boey and Professor Subbu Venkatraman

School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)

Amaranth Medical, the company founded by Professors Freddy Boey and Subbu Venkatraman, has received Series C funding from Boston Scientific.

(b) Visitors to CoE

School Visitors Date of Visit

Dean’s Office and School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

United States Air Force: Dr Mica Endsley Chief Scientist COL James Greer Military Assistant to the Chief Scientist Dr Seng Hong

13 February 2014

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(EEE) International Program Officer, AFRL/AFOSR Naval Medical Research Centre-Asia: Dr Patrick Blair Science Director NUS: Guo Yong Xin Chua Kee Chiang SMU: Lim Ee-Peng Archan

Dean’s Office Govt. College of Engineering, Mahashtra, India: Led by Professor Vasant Manohar Jape, a team of 20 faculty members visited CoE. Faculty members were from various disciplines such as: - Electrical Engineering - Civil Engineering - Applied Mechanical Engineering - Science and Mathematics - Electronics and Telecommunications - Instrumentation Engineering - Computer Science Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

19 February 2014

Dean’s Office, School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), School of Computer Engineering (SCE) and School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Office of the Dean of Engineering): Ms. Diana Liu Head of Communications & External Affairs Ms. Tiffany Tang Executive, Communications & External Affairs

20 February 2014

Dean’s Office VIT University of India: Led by Professor Venkitaswamy Raju, Vice Chancellor, a team of 19 faculty members visited CoE. Faculty members were from various disciplines such as: - Biotechnology - Computer Science - Electrical Engineering - Electronics Engineering

27 February 2014

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- Advanced Sciences - Mathematics - Chemistry - Information Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Civil Engineering

Dean’s Office, School of Computer Engineering (SCE) and School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)

Aoyama Gakuin University: Professor Yoshito Tobe Professor, Department of Integrated Information Technology, College of Science and Engineering Ms. Hiroko Deguchi International Affairs Officer, International Exchange Centre

20 March 2014

Dean’s Office and School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE)

University of Tokyo: Professor Mamoru Mitsuishi Incoming Dean of School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Takashi Kato Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology Professor Madoka Takai Department of Bioengineering Japan Science and Technology Agency (Singapore Office): Mr. Masahito Yano Senior Programme Coordinator

25 March 2014

Dean’s Office, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden: Professor Stefan Östlund Director of KTH-Illinois Partnership and Dean of School of Electrical Engineering Professor Anders Hult Professor in Fiber and Polymer Technology and Regional Director for South East Asia Ms Margareta Svedlund Regional Advisor for South East Asia Ms Erica Buck Project Advisor - North America of International Relations

26 March 2014

Dean’s Office and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.: Dr Hongsung Lee Mr. Freddy Tan Director, Business Development Mr. Hak Kyun Ahn Business Manager Ms. Yoon Tyng Cheah Assistant Business Development Manager

28 March 2014

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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Stanford University: Professor Chang Fu-Kuo Professor and Director Structures and Composites Laboratory Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Week of 10-14 February 2014

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

University of Pitssburgh: Professor Bopaya Bidanda Department Chair, Ernest E. Roth Professor of Industrial Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering Professor Kevin Chen Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Albert To Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Professor Jung Kun Lee Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Professor Prashant Kumta Department of Bioengineering Professor Ravi Shanker Department of Industrial Engineering Professor Paul Leu Department of Industrial Engineering Professor Youngjae Chun Department of Industrial Engineering Professor Yadong Wang Department of Bioengineering

29 January 2014