Congratulations to Dr Thomas Baikie on publishing the article,“The Crystal Chemistry of the Alkaline Earth Apatites A10(PO4)6CuxOy(H)z (A = Ca, Sr and Ba)” in Dalton Transactions. His article has been so well-received by the reviewers and the editorial office that it is now featured on the cover page of the September issue.
The covers of the journal are reserved for highlighting the highest-quality work. Dalton Transactions is the highest ranked European journal for inorganic chemistry, with a 2008 impact factor of 3.58.
MSE graduate, Miss Annabelle Liang
was named Miss Singapore International 2009 on 15
August. She also clinched the subsidiary award,
“Miss Crowning Glory” during the finals of the
national pageant.
Annabelle will go to represent Singapore at Miss
International pageant in China on 28 November,
cultivating and promoting goodwill, understanding
and friendship among fellow contestants from
different countries.
Congratulations to Asst Profs Su Haibin and Zhang Hua on winning about $500K worth of grant each under the A*STAR SERC PSF.
The Public Sector Funding (PSF) programme, administered by A*STAR's Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) aims to raise the research capabilities of Singapore's public sector institutions by supporting investigator-led research activity across a wide range of disciplines.
Congratulations to A/P Lee Pooi See on winning the Tier 2 grant of more than $800K from the Ministry of Education.
A/P Lee, together with her team will be focusing their research on “Resistive switching based on organic ferroelectrics” which explores resistive switching for organic memories.
Asst Prof Chen Lang and his PhD
student, Mr Chen Weigang won the Best Poster Award
at the recent 5th International Conference on
Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) 2009,
held in Singapore. The winning poster entitled
“Relaxation Dynamics in Epitaxial BiFeO3 Thin Films”
was chosen out of 197 poster submissions for
Symposium D.
ICMAT 2009 was organized by the Materials Research
Society of Singapore and attended by more than 2,000
members of the international scientific and
materials research community representing over 40
countries.
MSE Project Officer, Mr Cheng
Jialiang won the Graduate Student Award at the
recent E-MRS 2009 Symposium D - Nano-scale Energetic
Materials: Fabrication, Characterization and
Molecular Modeling, held in Strasbourg, France.
E-MRS Graduate Student Awards are presented to
graduate students in recognition of their excellent
academic achievements and outstanding contribution
towards research.
Among his other accolades, Mr Cheng Jialiang was
awarded $10,000 under the Ian Ferguson Postgraduate
Fellowship in 2008 to pursue his research attachment
program at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Prof Gan Chee Lip has recently won
an external grant of $5 million from DSO National
Laboratories to develop Phase II of the ASIC Failure
Analysis Project. With the successful completion of
Phase I where the baseline capability to perform
failure analysis of ASIC was established, the second
phase of the project will further develop
state-of-the-art techniques in carrying out failure
analysis on sub-100 nm technology devices.
This project will involve multi-disciplinary
collaboration with researchers from Temasek Lab, DSO
and the School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, NTU.
We extend our warmest welcome to Mr.
Brantley West, a Ph.D student from the University of
North Carolina - Chapel Hill, on an EAPSI internship
to NTU. The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
(EAPSI) program aims to expose US graduates to the
East Asia and Pacific science and engineering
research environment. It is hoped that this program
will also help students initiate and promote
research collaboration with their foreign
counterparts. Brantley will be researching on
“Crystal Growth and Material Properties of Organic
Semiconductors “ under the supervision of Prof.
Christian Kloc.
During his internship, Brantley will
collaborate and work closely with his buddy, Tan Ke
Jie on his research project.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish
Brantley a most fruitful and engaging stay in NTU!
Having successfully won S$2.25
million of research grant from the National Research
Foundation (NRF), Prof Chen Xiaodong is an
exceptional academic. Currently a faculty member in
NTU’s School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE),
Prof Chen is always eager to launch into a
discussion on his number one passion.
“My research interest lies in the area of
nanobioelectronics, bio-inspired molecular assembly,
and nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage.
These could one day lead to portable and implantable
clinical nanodevices, smart biomaterials for
regenerative medicine, and solution for global
energy crisis.”
It became a perfect fit for Prof Chen to take on his
role as Assistant Professor in MSE, a School where
he quickly grew to admire. His appreciation for the
school has extended beyond simple occupational
satisfaction. “MSE is a great family. I feel at home
here. We have motivated and talented staff and
students from diverse cultural and scientific
backgrounds. With strong support from the university
management, it provides a unique opportunity for me
to immediately focus on research and teaching rather
than other issues.”
“MSE is indeed a great platform for me to realize my
dream of pursuing my scientific curiosity.”
News Release
NTU MSE has signed a partnership
agreement with Pipeline Micro Asia to provide
cooling solutions using piezoelectric micro-pumps
for electronic devices. Under the agreement,
Pipeline Micro USA will invest $1m funding to
spearhead the research collaboration and more grants
are also anticipated from various funding agencies.
The joint project will bring together MSE’s proven
technology in piezoelectric transducer and Pipeline
Micro’s proficiency to provide cost and
energy-effective systems. MSE and Pipeline Micro aim
to achieve future product commercialization to
capture part of the global market potential,
estimated at $20 billion for small liquid cooling
systems.
We are pleased to announce that a
paper published in IEEE ELECTRON DEVICES LETTERS (EDL)
in 2008 co-authored by A/ Prof Subodh Mhaisalkar,
Adj A/ Prof Prof Zhu Furong and team has won the George E. Smith Award. This award was
established in 2002 to recognize the best paper
appearing in a fast turn around archival publication
of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, targeted to
IEEE Electron Device Letters.
MSE Professors and their team
members won the top 3 awards and 4 consolation
prizes at the recent “Discover
Engineering” event that was held in conjunction
with L.I.F.E.@NTU on 14 March 2009. This annual
exhibition was specially organized to showcase the
great impact and value of engineering innovations in
our everyday life.
The project submission from Asst/P Joachim Loo
bagged the “Most Popular Graduate Project Gold
Award” while the research teams led by Asst/P Gan
Chee Lip and Asst/P Madhavi Srinivasan won the
silver and bronze awards respectively. In addition
to these, 4 consolation prizes were awarded to the
project teams led by Prof Ma Jan, A/P Subodh
Mhaisalkar, Asst/P Lee Pooi See and Prof Christian
Kloc. The relentless efforts of all the MSE
participants to showcase their research innovations
to thousands of JC / Polytechnic students are highly
commendable.
More details on the project competition winners are
shown in the table below :
MSE undergraduates, Brendan Goh
(Year 1), Tsang You Jun (Year 1), Fan Shufen (Year
4) and Chen Yijun (Year 4) competed with students
from other schools and MSc/MBA programs to win the
2nd prize (comprising a trophy and S$6,000 cash) at
the NTU Business Plan Competition on 9 Jan 2009.
Apart from this, they also clinched the Favourite
Video Award at the competition.
Launched in 2002, the annual NTU Business Plan
Competition is a campus-wide competition designed to
inspire budding entrepreneurs within the NTU
community to develop and realize their business
ideas. Participants are encouraged to present
innovative business ideas and plans to judges from
the entrepreneurial community of Singapore. The
number of participants in this year’s competition
almost doubled to about 250.
Armed with the entrepreneurial spirit and creative
talent to put up a viable business plan, it is
little wonder that the MSE team have been invited by
SPRING Singapore to explore the possibility of
commercializing their business idea and forming a
new start-up company.
NTU has joined the elite group of
electron microscope centres including Harvard and
the Fraunhofer institutes by partnering with Carl
Zeiss to host a high-end transmission electron
microscope in its laboratories. The partnership
brings together MSE’s expertise in characterization
and Carl Zeiss’ technology in advanced microscopy.
In the recently completed agreement, Carl Zeiss will
place a 120 keV microscope in the School of
Materials Science and Engineering for two years,
starting from the middle of 2009. This win-win
arrangement provides Carl Zeiss with a highly stable
environment to place its demonstration machine and
the facilities to carry out advanced training
courses. NTU faculty and students will gain access
to an advanced microscope that can study both
biological and physical substances. They will also
have the opportunity to join the advanced group of
Carl Zeiss and gain access to state-of-the-art
instrumentation around the world.
MSE PhD graduate, Dr Nguyen Anh Chien is the winner of the Dilip
Das-Gupta Memorial Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Electrets (ISE)
2008. The award is given to the best oral presentation in ISE, in recognition of
Anh Chien's high quality research in ISE research field.
We extend our warmest welcome to Rebecca Lee Snyder, a Fulbright
scholar who is now in MSE to conduct her research. She will be working with A/ P
Raju Ramanujan for a year before returning to USA to pursue her Ph.D.
Please click
here to find out more about Rebecca’s story.
We are pleased to announce that Mr Cheng Jialiang, our PhD
student, was the inaugural recipient of the Ian Ferguson Postgraduate Fellowship
in 2008. The fellowship provides a $10,000 financial support for Jialiang to
pursue his research attachment program at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Jialiang received a plaque at a lunch cum award ceremony held at Nanyang
Executive Centre on 6 October 2008. Mrs Peony Ferguson (Chairman of the Ian
Ferguson Foundation), Professor Freddy Boey, Ms Marina Tan Harper (Director of
Development Office), as well as various MSE faculty staff and students were
present at the ceremony.
In addition to this fellowship award, Ms Law Shu Hui, an undergraduate from the
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, received her Ian Ferguson
Scholarship award from Mrs Ferguson.
The School extends its heartiest congratulations to Professor Ma Jan on his award at the National Day Honours 2008 - The Public Administration Medal (Bronze). The award is bestowed in recognition of Professor Ma Jan’s contribution and strong leadership role in transforming the MSE Undergraduate Program into one of the best programs in NTU.
We are very proud to announce that our first year
undergraduate, Mr Ady Suwardi has recently won the
gold medal at the 2nd International Olympiad on
Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Our PhD student, Mr Lim Meng Keong’s paper on “Effects of Pulsed
Current on Electromigration Lifetime” has been selected as the Best Reliability
Paper at the 15th International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis
of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) 2008, held in Singapore. His paper was chosen out
of 47 oral presentations, which were shortlisted from a total of 100 paper
submissions.
Meng Keong will present the paper at the 19th European Symposium on
Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis (ESREF),
Netherlands in October 2008. ESREF is an international symposium which provides
a forum for developing all aspects of reliability management and innovative
analysis techniques for present and future electronic applications.
The College of Engineering (CoE) held its sixth annual Discover
Engineering event on 8 March 2008 to promote research vibrancy in various
engineering fields. This event was organized in conjunction with L.I.F.E.@NTU,
the annual NTU open house.
We are proud to announce that out of
40 graduate project submissions from CoE, our
research project supervised by Prof Subbu Venkatraman,
Asst/P Joachim Loo and Asst/P Tan Lay Poh won the
“Most Popular Graduate Project Gold Award”.
Apart from this, two other research
teams led by Prof Freddy Boey, Prof Ma Jan, A/P
Lee Pooi See and Asst/P Zhang Hua were awarded the
Consolation Prizes.
The details of the graduate project winners are as
follows:
| Award |
Project Title |
Team members |
Supervisor |
| Most Popular Graduate Project Gold Award |
Smart Materials for Life Rescue |
Tang Yongdan, Kanishka Herath, Wong Yee
Shan, Han Yuling Jamie, Ng Herr Cheun
Anthony, Lim Kee Pah, Luciana Lisa Lao, Peng
Yan |
Prof Subbu Venkatraman, Asst/P Joachim Loo &
Asst/P Tan Lay Poh |
| Consolation Prize |
Energy Saving Devices using
Nanostructured Electrochromic Materials |
Khoo Eugene, Wang Jinmin, Wee Yixian
Wilson, Lim Huiling |
Prof Ma Jan and A/P Lee Pooi See |
| Consolation Prize |
Controlled Growth of Peptide Nanoarrays
on Si/SiOx Substrates |
Zhou Xiaozhu, Chen Yanhong, Li Bing, Lu
Gang |
Prof Freddy Boey, Prof Ma Jan, Asst/P Zhang Hua |
For more information, please click
here.
On 19 October 2007, MSE undergraduates Ms Kathleen Choo
Wei Ling and Ms Li Lili became the first and
deserving recipients of Kimann Bursary.
The 2 awards are valued at $4,000 each and will be
of financial assistance to the 2 students’
undergraduate experience with the School.
The bursary was awarded to the 2 MSE undergraduates
by the Chairman of Kim Ann Engineering Pte Ltd, Mr
Lau Tai San, who is also our NTU Alumni. The lunch
cum cheque presentation ceremony, organized by NTU
Development Office, was held at NTU Staff Club’s
Mayflower Restaurant Function Room. Present during
the ceremony was Professor Freddy Boey, MSE Chair,
Ms Marina Tan Harper, Director of Development
Office, Mr Soon Min Yam, Director of Alumni Affairs
Office, representatives from Kim Ann Engineering Pte
Ltd, as well as various MSE Faculty Staff and the
parents and siblings of the recipients.
Though the ceremony was over but the impact of the
bursaries upon the recipients would be great. We
hope that as kindness begets kindness, those who
have received help, will not withhold their
abilities to do likewise towards future generations
of NTU needy students.
Kimann Bursary
The Kimann Bursary aims at providing a
form of financial assistance to needy undergraduates
from the School of Materials Science and Engineering
who demonstrates good academic performances with an
average GPA above 3.
The Bursary Selection Committee consists of NTU
students' bursaries selection committee and the
Donor (Company). Shortlisted applicants have to take
a DISC test conducted by Kim Ann Engineering Pte
Ltd. Those who passed the test would be then
interviewed and picked by the Selection Committee.
Existing awardees only need to be reviewed and
recommended by the MSE Chair for award continuity
(based on academic results and overall conduct) and
endorsed by the Donor.
Kim Ann Engineering Pte Ltd
Kim Ann Engineering Pte Ltd is incorporated on 7th
May 1974 and situated at Joo Koon Circle in the
Jurong Industrial estate. It is a leading
stockholder of specialty metals in the ASEAN region,
with 3 warehousing and processing plants in
Singapore and more than 9 service centers in the
region.
The company deals with specialty metals in the areas
of Tools & Dies, Plastic moulding, General
engineering, Forging, Powder metallurgy, Aerospace,
etc., as well as provides services like heat
treatments, slitting and sawing and quality
assurance, etc. The company deals with and handles a
lot of different metals, such as the different
carbon steels, silver steels, plastic mould steels,
high tensile steels, copper, aluminum and nickel
alloys.
More information on the company can be found on the
company website,
http://www.kimann.com
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here for more photos
The China Precision Scholarship awards scholarship worth $3000
to outstanding PRC student. MSE final year student, Mr Xu Jie is the proud
recipient of the China Precision Scholarship in 2007.
Our PhD student, Mr Yudi Setiawan
has recently won the E-MRS 2007 Graduate Student
Award at the EMRS Spring 2007 Symposium P Laser
Synthesis and Processing of Advanced Materials, held
in Strasbourg, France.
E-MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor
graduate students whose academic achievements and
current materials research display a high level of
excellence and distinction.
Our PhD student, Ms Tan Tam Lyn is
one of the finalists for the 2nd TSMC Outstanding
Student Research Award based on her research
project. She flew to Taiwan in June to receive the
award.
TSMC is the largest and most advanced foundry in the
world. The competition for TSMC Outstanding Student
Research Award is open to students doing research in
microelectronics from all over the world.
 
Our PhD student, Mr Ricky Chua is
the winner of the Young Persons’ Singapore Lecture
Competition 2007.
He went on to represent Singapore and competed
against contestants from Brunei, Hong Kong, Ireland,
UK and USA at the 2007 Young Persons’ World Lecture
Competition. He has done the School proud by winning
the 2nd prize at the international competition
organised by the Institute of Materials, Minerals
and Mining (IOM3), UK.
Click here to read the news on Materials World
Miss Annabelle Liang Xiangyi, 2nd year
undergraduate in MSE, has been crowned as Miss
Singapore University 2006.
She represented Singapore
in the Miss World University 2006 pageant in October
and won the title of ‘Miss Teddy Bear’. Last year,
Miss Liang was named the 2nd runner-up in the Miss
Singapore World 2005 pageant.
Mr Dennis Lau, 3rd year undergraduate in MSE, is the proud winner of the Mister
Singapore 2006 pageant. He represented Singapore at the Mister International
2006 pageant in early October and was voted as the most congenial, charismatic
and inspirational contestant.
During his term as Mr Singapore 2006 and in support of the Children’s Cancer
Foundation, Dennis will devote his time as an advocator and educator of
childhood cancer awareness.
All students can register
your calculators at:
Venue: Undergraduate
Laboratory, N4-B4-W101
Date : 1 October to 8 December 2009
Time : 9.00am to 12.00pm & 1.00pm
to 5.00pm
Contact:
Robin Ong / Wilson Lim (Phone: 6790 4612)
COE List of Calculators
Approved for Examination:
COE List of Calculators Not
Approved for Examination:
Additional Calculators Approved for Examination:
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KARCE KC-186
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Sharp EL-W535
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Flair FC-994MS
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Citizen SR-282
Students are responsible for clearing any information and/or programs stored in the graphic calculators before the examination.
Please refer to the COE link
here.
For calculators which are not in
the approved list, students are required to complete
the
Calculator Approval Form and submit to Mr Low
Joon Kiat, Thomas for approval.
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