where INNOVATION IS ENCOURAGED

Sharing Our Expertise

At TP, we believe in taking our ability to innovate out of the classroom to benefit others. While our staff and students gain immensely from our partnerships and collaborations with industry, we are gratified to note that our partners have in turn leveraged on our strengths in R&D and teaching to boost their own development.

applying OUR SCIENCE

The Temasek Applied Science School lent its expertise to partners in the healthcare industry on projects such as reviewing diet prescriptions, providing diet counselling sessions for diabetic and heart patients and developing workplace nutrition education programmes.

The School also collaborated with Envirostar (S) Pte Ltd, to install a waste heat recovery system using heat pipe technology for PGEO Edible Oils Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian palm oil refinery. The project not only helped conserve the environment but also led to annual cost savings of about S$80,000 for PGEO.

VIRTUAL TRAINING program for SIA Engineering

SIA Engineering is another company that has benefited from one of our R&D projects, the Virtual Aircraft Seat Repair. This virtual training computer program, designed by students and staff of Temasek Engineering School, has helped improve the way in which SIA Engineering trains its staff in aircraft seat repairs. The program provides an efficient and realistic method to familiarise trainees in the procedures of seat repair and servicing before actually being placed on the job, resulting in both training time and cost savings.

TAS PROVIDES TRAINING for Sentosa

The Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) and TP jointly set up The Tourism Academy @ Sentosa (TAS) in July 2003. The TAS has since grown in capability and reputation as a key institution in training workforce for the hospitality and tourism industries. It has also become the centre for SDC’s training needs, as well as Sentosa’s island partners. In March 2006, this was furthered with the two parties signing a Service Training Agreement for TAS to conduct monthly training of SDC staff.

ADVANCING GROWTH with our R&D

With plenty of opportunities to develop their R&D capabilities at TP, our staff in turn have helped to advance developments within the industries they come from. A paper presented by a scientist from Temasek Applied Science School, titled ‘Innovative Precise Influx Hydroponic Orchid Growth System’ at the International Conference and Exhibition of Soilless Culture in September 2005, generated great interest and many enquiries from scientists and entrepreneurs from Australia, Kuwait, America and Malaysia. His new technique allows for more orchids to be grown in a limited area, with longer sprays. And, because they are not grown in soil, these orchids can be exported throughout the world, bypassing all the quarantine processes.

leveraging on OUR NETWORKS

We also promote developments in the industry by leveraging on our networks to bring the best in the business together to share ideas. The inaugural international design conference hosted by the Temasek Design School in March 2006 brought together world-renowned authorities in design from the USA, Asia and Europe for an insightful three-day session that discussed the theme, ‘Design Thinking & Innovation: Towards a Global/Asian Perspective’. TP was partnered by Cumulus, the renowned European Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media, in organising this Conference that was the first of its kind in Asia.

upgrading the NATION's WORKFORCE

TP also actively engages in skills upgrading for the nation’s workforce through programmes for working adults that are conducted by our Continuing Education Centre (CEC). To meet the ever-changing needs of various industry sectors, it works with the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), trade unions, associations and employers to provide relevant training.

In the review year, as part of the WDA’s Workforce Skills Qualifications System, the CEC launched a series of modules to improve the overall operational efficiency of the retail industry. Going even further, we customised some of these modules to help meet the specific needs of individual companies. One such company is heartland retailer Sheng Siong supermarket. The supermarket has pledged to have all its 2,000 staff in 17 outlets participate in two customer service modules, “Maintain Personal Presentation” and “Interacting with Customers”, conducted by TP. For the first-time, the training was conducted in Mandarin.

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