New Undergraduate Students
This year we have 04 new local penultimate undergraduate students who will join our group for their ME4104A BEng Dissertation, Mr. Shannon Tan, Mr. Ryan Lim Chi Huang, Ms. Vaishnavi Harihara Venkatesan, and Mr. Tee Wee Keat. We also have 01 undergraduate student under the 3+1+1 NUS Partner Chinese Universities Education Framework between Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and NUS. Read more about our new students here!
Welcome to our new exchange PhD students
LIANG Zhenquan
PhD Candidate
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology
Chinese National Scholar, Outstanding Student Model
We warmly welcome the Mr. Liang, a 3rd year PhD candidate from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology. Mr. Liang received his bachelor’s degree in Harbin Institute of Technology in 2020 and subsequently embarked on his postgraduate doctoral program. His research interests include metal additive manufacturing and post-processing, creep and fatigue behavior of structural materials, advanced material characterization. He has authored over 20 papers and 4 Chinese invention patent applications. He is a recipient of the Chinese National Scholarship and Outstanding Student Model award. Over the next year starting in September, he will join the National University of Singapore as a joint PhD student funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) to continue his research in post-processing for metal additive manufacturing (PP4AM).
MU Jierui
PhD Candidate
School of Materials Science & Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
We warmly welcome the Mr. Liang as a visiting PhD student to our team. His research interests include hybrid additive manufacturing and electrochemical dissolution. Starting in September, he will join our team to continue his research in electrochemical polishing of additive manufactured metals.
Visit by Assoc. Prof. Biao Cai from the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
AM.NUS Center hosted Prof. Cai with a tour of the additive manufacturing facilities in NUS and graciously invited us to present our research on post-processing for additive manufacturing. He was in Singapore to attend the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES2024) where he gave a keynote speech titled, Synchrotron and Neutron Characterization of Advanced Alloys Made by Laser Powder Bed Fusion. Prof. Cai is an expert in physical metallurgy with unique studies on micro-mechanics using in-situ synchrotron technologies to study material plasticity and mechanical properties. We were glad to share our approach toward precision surface finishing of additively manufactured materials through the systematic study of metallurgy, machinability, methodology, and support structure finishing. During the sharing session, we highlighted our latest work on the mechanochemical effect on micro-cutting of additively manufactured maraging steel where we saw some common ground in our research on field-assisted influences to material deformation characteristics. We look forward to having meaningful collaborations in the future.
Invited presentation at ICCES2024
Dr. Zhan was invited to give a presentation on Numerical Investigation on the Ductile Machining of Calcium Fluoride Single Crystal Enhanced by Laser Assistance at the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES2024), held at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore, from 3–6 August.
Bruker Nanoindentation Workshops
We were blessed with the opportunity to participate in a well-organized 2-day workshop by Bruker on the 27th and 28th of August. The event was massively loaded with a wealth of information and expertise to keep both academics and industry partners on the edge of their seats throughout the sessions. The first day was hosted by Wintech Nano with the theme on Exploring Applications of Nanomechanical Technology in Material Research, Advanced Packaging and Semiconductor Failure Analysis. The second day was hosted by the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) with the sessions jointly organized by specialists from Zeiss, IME, and Bruker, Exploring Material Testing Applications for Semiconductor and Material Research. Our takeaways from this valuable workshop can be found here. Kudos to Jeffrey Teoh and the team at Bruker for organizing this highly educative and insightful event.