where INNOVATION IS ENCOURAGED

At TP, encouraging new ideas is not just given lip service. Instead, innovation is carefully nurtured as ideas are allowed to come to fruition. Through this, we hope to produce knowledge workers who can thrive in a globalised economy, who are inventive, adaptable and can think out of the box.

Facilitating Ideas

Nurturing innovative ideas begins with our students and staff believing that they have the space for its realisation. TP takes pride in our state-of-the-art facilities such as competency centres, laboratories and equipment, not just for the sake of having them, but for what they do for our students. Such amenities keep them close to the latest industry practices, while giving them more room to experiment with and develop their ideas.

KookWerkz heats up ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

KoolWerkz, an innovative brainchild of the Temasek Applied Science School, Temasek Business School and TP’s Entrepreneurship Centre, is an example of how we encourage ideas to be developed and realised. Established in July 2005, the fully-equipped ice-cream making plant acts as a training-cum-incubation centre for entrepreneurship development. Here, multidisciplinary learning is the order of the day as students undertake the entire spectrum of product development; from manufacturing to branding and marketing. With KoolWerkz, TP is also the first polytechnic to acquire a Food Establishment License from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore to manufacture frozen desserts.

upgrading the ANIMAL FACILITY

Of course, our facilities also enable us to further our R&D in niche fields, as well as our teaching capability. As part of its efforts to improve the teaching of its Veterinary Science Option, the Temasek Applied Science School’s animal facility was completely upgraded in August 2005. From a one-room unit for holding animals for teaching purposes, it is now a 370 sq meter facility comprising Aquaculture and Laboratory Animal Workstations. The facility takes the School further along the path to becoming a leading training provider on animal care and use. In fact, TP is the only educational institution that has been identified as a training provider for responsible animal care and use for scientific purposes under the National Advisory Committee for Laboratory Animal Research (NACLAR) Training Guidelines.

VISUALISING THE FUTURE
- a new 3D media studio

In September 2005, Temasek Engineering School jointly established a 3D Media Studio on campus with IM Innovations Pte Ltd. A certified training and competency centre for 3D computer graphics and visualisation technologies, the Studio is also intended to function as a venue for Singapore developers to pilot new and innovative development work in this field.

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS
- the Skyhawk as a teaching tool

Temasek Engineering School took learning to new heights when it brought in a decommissioned RSAF Skyhawk jet in October 2005. The jet is currently being used as a teaching aid for students of the Aerospace Engineering and Aerospace Electronics elective options. Students taking these elective options can now study first hand, the aircraft’s intricate mechanisms, airframe structure and design, flight control systems, hydraulic and pneumatic applications, as well as the electrical and instrumentation systems, among others.

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