Below are Testimonies from Sponsoring Companies:
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I am writing to express my sincere appreciation for the outstanding work and contributions made by Patnala Datta Sai Raghavendra Revanth, Selvaraj Gokul, Shamir Kevin Menon s/o Sasi Kumar, and Tan Yong Kang during their collaboration with the National University Hospital (NUH) on their final year design project.
This project posed considerable challenges, as it required not only technical expertise but also a profound understanding of our laboratory’s unique workflow and the needs of key stakeholders in the histopathology laboratory.
Throughout their engagement with NUH, the team demonstrated exceptional technical skills and a remarkable ability to integrate engineering principles with practical considerations. They successfully developed a working prototype that if scaled up, could eliminate the manual labor and reduce the workload of lab technicians while significantly improving the efficiency of the sorting process.
Despite encountering setbacks along the way, the team persevered and delivered a final product that met our requirements and exceeded our expectations.
Working with this team of highly capable individuals has been an absolute pleasure for myself and my team.
Dr. Oon Ming Liang, Associate Consultant, April 2024
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“I would like to thank NUS school of Engineering for giving us the opportunity to collaborate in the production of the Racepack Maker. The two-team leaders in charge, Sarar and Samuel did a wonderful job since the start of the project, to it’s completion. They provided us with constant updates, reassuring us that the team is hard at work and that progress was being made. The teams also sought advice from the users and ensured the product catered to the operational needs of our officers. We are excited to showcase both project to our colleagues and further develop the prototype to enhance our operational capabilities.
Looking forward for more collaboration with the NUS faculty in the near future.”
WO1 Khairul Zaman KHAIRUDIN, SCDF, April 2024
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We are thrilled to be working with 2 group of students on this student design project. The level of professionalism and proficiency on the topics/ideas brought up were indeed above par. We are excited with one of the prototype solutions and looking at potentially testing it out in our facility for end-user feedback.
Looking forward to continue collaborating with NUS faculty in future.
| Darren Wong |
| Global HCT MFG CI/MEIE, Halliburton, May 2023 |
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Our engineering team had the privilege of working with this talented group of students whilst gaining access to cutting-edge modelling and simulation tools provided in their arsenal. Such an opportunity has eluded most SMEs due to the lack of resources, but has proven to have been a good exercise and experiences for both Phaos’ Engineer and the students from NUS.
The students have showcased exceptional skills in research, simulation, verification and design, highlighting their proficiency in engineering principles learnt in school.
They were able to design a chassis surpassing our target specifications, prioritizing functionality and aesthetics. Throughout the course of the project, the group demonstrated excellent interpersonal communication skills and working cohesively with Phaos’ engineers. Their dedication and hard work resulted in a design solution been considered and implement in the subsequent phase of our product launch.
Phaos is looking forward to work with NUS and the team of Professional Instructors in the future projects.
Tay BB,
COO, March 2023, Phaos Technology Pte Ltd
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Wang Zhi Tao
Technical Manager, April 2022
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During this time, the team had worked on ‘Design of particle filtration system using air flow optimization system’, where they have learned to perform the CAD design, CFD Simulation in ANSYS Fluent, 3D Printing of the components and finally generating a novel experiment setup for design evaluation.
The results are beneficial and the work done by the team is appreciated by the R&D team.
Overall, the team displayed professional traits during the project period and managed to complete all assigned tasks as requested. They were hardworking, dedicated, and committed. It was a pleasure having them with us in this short period
Quah Chong Shing Clement, April 2022
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The current product Scorpio Electric X1 is equipped with single-sided swingarm and solid rear wheel axle. This design resulted in the need for unique solution to jack up the rear wheel for storage, repair and maintenance.
Scorpio Electric has collaborated with NUS Team for the project of development of novel rear wheel jack prototype. During the project, NUS team has shown creativity and innovative thinking and the result of it is a very unique rear wheel jack that not only achieved the fundamental requirement of safely lifting the rear wheel but also has special feature that allow the change of rear suspension without the need to remove other parts of the motorcycle.
Besides the creativity and innovativeness, the team also show the eagerness to learn and develop.
It is truly impressive to see the team delivering an innovative and functional prototype from scratch in a short span of 3 months while simultaneously balancing other academic requirements.
Eric Charles, R & D Engineer, 2022
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It was great working with the engineering students from NUS for this NUS-Industry Sponsored Design Project. After given the problem statement and objectives, the students were able to demonstrate resourcefulness, problem solving skills, and independence in doing their research, planning and project execution. They have also helped to develop a SOP to improve our processes even though it was not the main deliverable of the project. We would like to thank the students, the supervisors and the school for the opportunity to collaborate in this program.
Lim Jia Hao, Senior Engineer, Makino Asia Pte Ltd, Nov 2021
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The Industry Sponsored Design Project module creates a win-win situation for students and companies, by giving students exposure to cutting-edge industry projects, and companies access to the best of local talent. At SafeLight, we have enjoyed working with the students in this module, whose enthusiasm, initiative and drive have helped translate exciting ideas into demonstrable prototypes. I’d gladly recommend this program for startups, who often have to practise frugal innovation, without compromising on quality.
Dr Vinayak, CEO, April 2021
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It has been a great journey working with the NUS School of Engineering. We have worked with two groups of Year 3 students to explore novel solutions to improve fire station activation and response time. The students were enthusiastic and innovative, and never shied away when difficult questions were asked.
Under the mentoring of Stanley and professors, both groups met the study’s objectives and delivered a sound proposal, which includes a prototype, CAD drawing and graphic simulation. One of the team even took the extra mile to print 3D modelling of the prototype to allow better visualisation of the proposal. All in all, it was a fruitful collaboration and we thank NUS and the students for their hard work and sharing.
By Maj CHAN JIA HUI, SCDF, Nov 2020
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HCA Hospice Care is pleased to have worked with the wonderful and motivated students from NUS School of Engineering. We have worked with four groups to tackle different problems faced by our stakeholders – from mobility-impaired patients who required innovative ramp solutions, to mobile clinical bag designs that can keep our nurses safe and the equipment secure as they travel around Singapore to deliver home care to our beneficiaries.
We were impressed by the compassion and care that students demonstrated in their work. They rose to the challenge and were able to adapt ideas and tackle the context that we faced on the ground. We would also like to thank the school for collaborating with us in these endeavors to realize these ideas.”
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It gives me great pleasure to write this commendation letter for Manfred (Group Leader) and his team for their hard work and contribution in the all-weather wheelchair project.
My team of healthcare professionals shared strong positive experiences working with the students. They demonstrated positive attitudes, openness to learning, professionalism, and a can-do spirit throughout the entire journey. We were very impressed with their technical as well as communication skills. They also displayed excellent team work, collegiality, resourcefulness and creativity. More importantly, they were guided by a deep compassion and empathy for wheelchair users and went the extra mile in producing a prototype that could empower wheelchair users and their caregivers to commute in the community in rain or shine.
Please extent our congratulation to the students for a job well done.
Last but not least, I would like to thank Prof Ong, Stanley and Mr Lee for your professional guidance and support to the entire project team.
Vivian Chan (Ms), Singapore General Hospital
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It is always delighted to work with NUS Mechanical Engineering Department since 2014 for our industrial projects taken by innovative and problem solving students and supervising professors. The outcomes from the past projects such as 1) optimizing crane lifting capacity with PKU, 2) rescue-friendly crane cabin with SCDF DART and BCA Academy, and 3) the universal lifting frame for PPVC modules, were often productive and enlightening for facilitating us in exploring our real life technical solutions from different angles. ~ Sun Tian, GM of Yongmao
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From January 2020 till April 2020 a group of students from NUS Mechanical Engineering took part in a Design Project for Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia (KM). The objective of the project was to create a physical lift simulator for Autonomous Mobile Robots to assist KM in demonstrating their automation capabilities to potential customers.
The project scope consisted of Mechanical design and fabrication, integrating electrical systems and software programming. Despite all the group members being from a Mechanical Engineering background they were able to produce a working prototype as a deliverable to conclude their project. The prototype will be a great help in driving sales for KM.
By Vikram, Konica Minolta
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This project brings useful insight to our organization that help us to find the resolution of problem in more simple way.
Students are very creative and innovative. They produced a prototype (scale down) that actually solve the issue with low cost.
Appreciate the good work from NUS students and professors.
By Wang Hong Yu, Quality Compliance & Performance Manager
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I would like to congratulate NUS for successfully grooming a team of committed and creative students. There was good demonstration of teamwork and a systematic approach towards problems solving was adopted. The first prototype looked promising. It was unfortunate that they could not refine it further because of the COVID-19 situation.
By MAJ Teo Soon Chye, SCDF Commander
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The students brought fresh ideas to the table and diligently went through the product development cycle, from ideation to prototype. Working with them was a pleasure. Look forward to working with the next batch soon.
By Shaon Sen, Structo3d.com
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The NUS Design Module and Design Lab have provided a valuable resource for companies seeking to validate mechanical engineering ideas. With the right tools and enthusiasm to explore, they are an excellent example of how the Singapore knowledge ecosystem should be used to improve industry productivity.” – Collins Aerospace.
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It has been a great experience working with the NUS students. The exchange of knowledge and experience between the PSA Marine and NUS student teams have enabled us to identify and explore various innovative ideas to strengthen our processes. The professors mentored and provided critical feedback to the NUS students, leveraging on their years of experience, knowledge and industrial networks. We sincerely thanked NUS and the students for this wonderful experience!”
By: So Kah Meng, PSA Marine
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I would like to congratulate the team for a job well done in developing a hands-free solution to faciliate the machinists in our machine shop to set-up the production parts onto the machines without having any physical contact.
As part of the work safety & injury prevention initiatives, GE is continuously exploring solutions to eliminate finger and hand injury at work. Coincidentally in July this year, there is an opportunity to work with the Mechanical Engineering Department from National University of Singpore (NUS) on sponsoring a design project to develop hand’s free devices to eliminate physical hand touch / contact with parts in suspended condition during CNC machine work set-up.
I would like to thank all of you for the effort and the great contribution in helping GE in implementing the ‘No Touch Policy’.
By: Plant Manager, Koh Yong Peng
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To start off, ASM would like to thank NUS for allowing the opportunity for another successful project. My team is very pleased with the progress of this project as the students were able to complete the mini goals/milestones that we set from the start.
The students were responsive and responsible with constant communication maintained throughout the project.
Even though there were many “speed bumps” during the project, their dedication and perseverance pushed the team to achieve the final goal – Proof of concept.
My team would also like to express gratitude to the other team members for their hard work and each of them showcased their strengths individually as well.
By: Nicholas Ng, ASM
My team and me are very pleased to have this opportunity to collaborate with these highly capable bunch of students.
We defined a rather ambitious plan and goals for this project. However these highly capable bunch of students took in their stride professionally and even brought smart and innovative ideas to the table.
This project remains a journey for us but these students made a major and crucial breakthrough by achieving the proof concept which my team understands is most important.
My team and I would therefore like to express our gratitude to these students for their hard work and efforts.
By: Jeremy Danker, ASM
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We wish to offer our satisfaction to the group of students who did their ME3 project with NatSteel. Although they’re still at their half-way mark towards completion, we will be anticipating very positive results born from this collaboration.
By: Brian Chong Wen Kai
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Just to say Thank You again for a fruitful and positive experience during this ME3102 project. The team has exceeded our DSO expectations from their detailed design up to integration and testing of the lab prototype. Overall, the team has demonstrated quality in their work, capacity to learn, willingness to try new ideas, great team spirit and commitment.
By: Zheng WeiMing James , DSO
3M Award for Outstanding Project was also presented to a team of six led by Maricelle Wong.This award was given out for the first time to the students by Dr Melvin Zin, Head of 3M Corporate Research Laboratory Singapore, to recognize the “outstanding creativity and perseverance shown towards the project” by the team.This is the first time 3M is giving out this award because of the impressive manner in which the team has approached and handled the project.
Thank you very much Stanley. This is a great program, and we’re glad to participate in it. I too look forward to long-term collaboration with you.
By: Dr Melvin Zin, Head of 3M Corporate Research Laboratory Singapore
“These students are really bright and they are very innovative.”“I’m really impressed with the professionalism with the students and the co-operation of the staff of NUS!”
By: Mr Robin Low, CEO of Greenyarn
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There are 2 key points that I wish to cite as why the NUS Design Team is a good engagement to try by companies doing R&D/Innovation:
1) Ease of doing-business (or a project) with.
The program management is led by an open, can-do lead [Stanley Thian] who, as the primary interface between the company/ies and the NUS program, has a customer-oriented style that makes the relationship, from project set-up to end, an overall ease to do. This is very important. Companies appreciate and want to work with parties, ex: academic or institutes that can listen, understand and willing to help them reach the set goals in a collaborative cooperative style.
2) Capability and promising potential of the engaged students to do very good work. From a company sponsor perspective, this enables an “expansion” of its project resource pool, and capability to gain fresh takes to solutions.
The student members of the formed team start naturally with high potential, so when properly guided or mentored by the sponsor company across project duration, can do very good work. Our 2012 project with the student team was a very positive experience. To start with the students as individuals were intelligent, and had can-do attitude. Moreso, even if the project duration was crunched from the usual 6 months [2 semesters] to 3 months [1 semester] for special reason, still the team reached its goal: to create a number of concept solutions, test a select few of them and bring the promising ideas to prototype tests. All achieved within the challenging time.
Another bonus: as of this writing, Infineon is working with NUS towards filing a co-invention patent capturing the novel ideas generated by the project team. This may very well become the first patent under the belt of the team’s (3) engineering students!
Carlo,
Project sponsor lead mentor
R&D, Project Management
Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
I have already given the go ahead to fabricate one piece of the integrated gangway 1:1 scale in aluminum based on the [students’] design drawing.
Soon, we will be able to witness a complete working model. Of course, there would still be a period of testing and tweeting the design to eliminate remove all other operation problems.
Thanks to all the hard work for us to reach this stage.
By : Peter Lee, Assistant Yard Manager
Jurong SML Pte Ltd in 2103
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I just had a great morning with five of the six NUS engineering students and had the opportunity to see their presentation on the “Hydropower Generation for Off-grid Communities Project”. I appreciate their willingness to share the project presentation during their vacation break.
I wanted to let you know how impressed I was with what they have done to date. As I’ve gone back over the objectives of the project, they are, what I would consider, right on target… They have done an extremely good job in thinking through the whole process, especially with regard to the community impact, sustainability of the design and related necessary changes. The team did a very good job in the presentation and communicating the various components of the project. They have come to some very good conclusions and solid ideas for proceeding into the next phase of the project…all of this with the community and sustainability in mind
As the humanitarian NGO involved in this joint project, I’ve got to tell you that I couldn’t be more pleased. I was especially encouraged by the enthusiasm that they all had as they shared their individual components to the overall project, they all had real passion and a desire to see it happen for the benefit of the people. They reflect the high caliber of NUS and I look forward to interacting with the team during the next semester and ultimately seeing the final result of their hard work.
By: James Wolf, BGR International, in 2012
Asia Rim Area Director
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1) “XPAC is looking for a ‘out of the box’ revolutionary design for our machine and this group of young students has achieved for us what we are striving to do – a simple machine that is creative, revolutionary and economical for us to market to the world!”
2) We are very happy as they have completed and found a very good solutions for this project…after we have done a trial run, we are going to patent it for prevent copying by competitors
By: Mr Willie Tan, MD of XPAC Technologies in 2011
For R&D work that the business had no or not enough resources to undertake, this programme can help the company to develop a basic prototype to assess the functionality of the idea. This programme is a cheaper alternative to engaging a design company to develop a product.
By: Mr Andrew Lim, MD of Slide & Hide
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Yes I think both groups are good in their own way so we are happy with the progress achieved thus far. Moving forward, it should be quite exciting to see how both groups transform their designs into actual prototypes in the next semester!
By: Joanne Liao
Energy & Power
CTO Office
ST Kinetics Ltd
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We recognised the effort that the students and tutors have contributed in those projects that APL Co had assigned to NUS, .. Without further delaying the development of some projects, APL Co needs to take others approach to develop some of the projects either with our own or with our third party vendors.
By: Mr Christopher Lee
We are impressed by the ability of the team to think out of the box and more importantly, they have come up with a fully functional prototype that has the potential to improve our productivity by greatly reducing the manual effort to lift the covers that weigh over 100kg each. Our people appreciated our company’s collaboration with NUS to improve their work conditions.
By: Mr Foo, PSA Corporation
1) We are writing this letter to you to express our great satisfaction with the results.Their design proposals were extensive and comprehensible with a lot of background study and brainstorming put in. The mock-up of the ultrasonic cleaning tank which was presented was way above our expectations. The students had displayed a high level of dedication and the resulted outcome speaks for itself. We are very pleased with how things worked out. Please convey our appreciation to the team members; Jeremy Khaw, Benjamin Pang, Suhana Aris, Clement Tay, Teo Tian Meng and headed by Shawn Tan (Team Leader). Special thanks also to Assoc. Prof Loh for his continued support and guidance to the students.
2) Thanks to your team’s excellent work. My team are now looking into adopting the concepts and do refinements to suit our operations.
By: Herman Sulaiman, Manager, Projects, Sats Food Solution Group