Welcome to the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE).

Over the years, MSE has grown significantly – attracting outstanding faculty, research staff and students as well as expanding its research programmes. Our staff and students are constantly challenged to enhance research excellence through innovation and commercialization.

In 2007, our cutting-edge research efforts attracted over $8 million in new research grants from local and overseas funding agencies. Some of these successful grants are in the areas of Clean Energy, Biomaterials, Defence, Computational Materials, Nanoelectronics and Polymer-related research. MSE, in partnership with Nanofrontier Pte Ltd, has also signed two R&D collaboration agreements with UK companies, Analytical NanoTechnologies plc and ROAR Particles Ltd. These agreements are worth $4 million over a period of two years. In addition, MSE has also established a new start-up company called Adcomp which is to commercialize the biomedical stent in India.

We are proud to announce that MSE’s first joint venture medical device, Ree-Trakt, was released for sale in the United States in October 2007. This product is a combined research effort between MSE and Insightra® Medical (http://www.insightra.com/index.php) of Irvine California. Ree-Trakt is the first medical device in NTU that has been developed and patented in accordance with design controls.

We initiated joint R&D collaborations with premier local and overseas institutions such as National Heart Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, University of California – Los Angeles, Northwestern University, Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Georgia Institute of Technology and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology – just to name a few.

2008 and beyond will be an exciting time for MSE. We aim to foster a vibrant research environment and lead the drive towards materials R&D to benefit mankind and the community. We look forward to working with our academics and industrial partners as we pursue innovative breakthroughs in the field of materials science and engineering.
 

Prof Freddy Boey Yin Chiang
Chair
School of Materials Science and Engineering