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Temasek Engineering School's strength lies in our ability to be forward-looking to ensure that we remain at the cutting edge of technology. Seventeen CUs have been set up to undertake R&D work in collaboration with industry, so as to further our expertise in specialised technological areas. These CUs help to enhance the professional and academic capability of our staff and students.
3D Media Studio
The Studio was set up in partnership with IM Innovations. It provides the expertise to explore, develop, and promote competencies in 3D computer graphics and applications, and aims to enhance the capabilities of students and industry professionals by providing them with the relevant training in these areas. The Studio, also the exclusive Authorised Training Centre in ASEAN for the “Cinema 4D” and “BodyPaint 3D” software, offers consultancy services and acts as a test-bed for the industry in 3D-related projects.
Biomedical Informatics Competency Unit
This CU focuses on the development of group audiometers, and biomedical instrumentation projects. It is equipped with an acoustic chamber and audiometers to conduct hearing tests. The core competence of this CU includes R&D in areas such as group audiometers and hearing aids; bioinformatics and biotechnology equipment and tools; and medical instruments for measurement of physiological signals of human beings.
Business Process & Systems Engineering Competency Unit
Business today involves being engaged in a range of key skills. This CU aims to develop and proliferate technologies for development, training and industry collaboration through the Major Project cum Student Internship Programme scheme, as well as specific subject projects. Other areas of focus for this CU include systems engineering, enterprise process mapping, data mining, franchising, branding and customer relationship management.
Computer Visualisation & Design Competency Unit
This CU revolutionises and promotes the integration of design, engineering and IT via the creation of new knowledge, training tools and innovative products and processes. It has undertaken several significant collaborative projects with the industry and educational institutions to generate patents, marketable products, processes and e-learning packages.
Digital Media Technology Competency Unit
Digital broadcasting technology is rapidly being deployed in the global arena. Organisations interested in developing applications and explorations for the digital broadcasting industry are encouraged to join us as a strategic partner. This CU conducts applied research in projects involving digital broadcasting applications, particularly in digital audio broadcasting and digital TV. It is involved in a project to develop interactive TV applications based on European standards: the Digital Video Broadcasting Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP).
Fuel Cell Application Centre
This unit has modern research facilities with state-of-the-art equipment for conducting applied research in switching/analogue power circuits and fuel cell technology relevant to industrial needs. It focuses on advanced switch mode power conversion with handling power rating up to 1 kW and fuel cell technology and applications, and provides practical training to students in the school.
Info-Communications Competency Unit
Info-communications today focuses significantly on software technology to make crucial deliveries. This is especially so for the service and security industries, and organisations which depend on quick turnaround. This CU focuses on developing ebusiness services which encompass the front-end deliveries, web development, mobile/wireless communications and Internet applications. To meet the growing demands for infotainment, the Unit specialises in multi-media applications such as speech, image and video processing, and the development of mobile and computer gaming.
Intelligent Building Competency Unit
This CU aims to support the renewal of the building industry as more buildings and homes become increasingly smarter. It focuses on two main areas: intelligent building systems and building performance. The Unit keenly supports industrial collaboration and provides students with opportunities to work on collaboration projects with the industry. Some of these include the development of portable information management systems for facilities management personnel, intelligent electrical metering system, and chiller plant energy audits in major buildings.
Intelligent Systems Competency Unit
The fulcrum group for microcontroller-related design in the School, this CU is well equipped with facilities to support most industrial projects. It offers enriching experiences beyond the classroom and curriculum for students and staff and is also the driving force behind the School’s training centre for microchip devices. The Unit’s main area of competence is in embedded system applications with digital/ analogue and electro-mechanical interfacing.
Internet Technology Competency Unit
Making Internet technology more accessible is the focus and challenge for this CU. Enterprise web applications, wireless and mobile applications and embedded technologies are the core technologies that it focuses on. Its main objective is to develop and proliferate these technologies for R&D, training, and industry collaboration. It is currently working closely with Philips Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd on a healthcare project.
Mechatronics Design Centre
This Centre develops and shares expertise related to mechatronics system design and automation. It carries out R&D to integrate motion control for automation, process control and simulation, machine vision and scaffold tissue-engineering systems. The Centre emphasises product and process automation technologies, and offers customised training courses to upgrade the skills of the local workforce in the relevant technology area.
Mobile Computing Centre Competency Unit
This CU focuses on enterprise web, wireless and mobile applications. It emphasises applied research development and consultancy in mobile computing technology through collaborations with research organisations and industry partners in the areas of education, info-communication and logistics. Its core capabilities include the development of PDA applications, programming, RDBMS database design and implementation, and network design and implementation.
Rapid Prototyping Technology Competency Unit
This CU transforms concepts and ideas into real and functional roducts. 3D CAD systems and subtractive/additive prototyping machines are used to design and develop physical prototypes from plastic and sheet metal parts for concept testing and engineering evaluation. It collaborates with the industry in the areas of product design and development, industrial design, human factors engineering, product visualisation and prototyping, solid CAD modelling, design analysis and simulation, rapid tooling, sheet metal forming and vacuum casting.
Robotics & Automation Group Competency Unit
This CU aims to develop applied research capabilities in robotics technologies relevant to the industry’s needs, specialising in the R&D of hardware, firmware and software of mobile and autonomous robotics. It is also equipped with various robotic research platforms providing applied research on legged robots, behaviour-based robots, mechanical gripper, robotic hand and multi-agent system.
Communications Systems Competency Unit
This CU operates and manages all satellite systems within Temasek Polytechnic. It has satellite connectivity to the Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives (AI3) - a pan-Asian satellite network. The satellite link is used in project collaborations involving satellite-Internet technologies with local and overseas partners. Staff and students, besides working on these satellite and Internet-related projects, are also trained in the setting up, operation and management of these live satellite links.
Temasek Microelectronics Competency Unit
Microelectronics has emerged with more stringent, complex and competitive standards, as it moves towards the nano era. This CU upgrades and matches capabilities in these standards while focusing on two main areas: MEMS and RFID. The focus on MEMS technology includes the design, fabrication, and the testing and application of silicon and polymer MEMS, with the primary emphasis on sensors. Fabrication and testing are carried out in a Class 100 Cleanroom equipped with the latest tools for wafer processing and testing. The other area of focus is RFID systems design and applications.
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