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A key cornerstone of TP's educational philosophy is preparing students to be industry relevant. Our facilities on campus are developed to simulate up-to-date industry operations and some take the form of Centres of Excellence that are developed in collaboration with industry. Besides giving our students the opportunity for hands-on learning, these facilities also enable us to provide consultancy services and collaborate on joint projects with our industry partners.
- Centre for Traditional Medicine
The Centre for Traditional Medicine (CTM) is set up within the School of Applied Science (ASc) to be a one-stop centre supporting the Traditional Medicine (TM) industry in Singapore as well as the region. The objectives of the CTM are to assist in the modernisation of the TM industry, enhance the knowledge of the TM industry, as well as to support government agencies and regulating authorities in TM-related matters.
- Food Product Development Facility
This facility enables the formulation of products like drinks, spreads, baked products, desserts and sauces. It supports the School’s frozen dessert capabilities by developing prototypes for our training factory. It also has a food pilot plant that scales up recipes for mass production. To complete the product development process, the School has a state-of-the-art sensory laboratory which has booths equipped with coloured lights, sinks and computer terminals.
- Glycemic Index Research Unit (GIRU)
Temasek Polytechnic set up the Glycemic Index Research Unit (GIRU), a first in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region. This unit is well-equipped to conduct GI testing of foods and meals. It also works with a multi-disciplinary team under TP’s School of Applied Science and taps into their expertise in food science, baking & culinary science, biomedical science, analytical chemistry, and veterinary science studies. Our GI Research Unit has received the accreditation for testing from the Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC).
- KoolWerkz Training Factory
An off-campus training factory for ice cream production, KoolWerkz provides a hands-on training approach for entrepreneurship development. Together with TP’s Entrepreneurship Centre, it offers learning opportunities to all TP students in technical or business-related fields. Here, students learn about ice cream processing, inventory management, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), quality control and assurance, logistics and marketing functions as in real business scenarios.
- Membrane Technology Facility
This facility, housed in the Chemical Pilot Plant in the School, is well equipped to train students in membrane technology and embark on consultancy projects for our industrial partners. Major membrane equipment includes the NEWater pilot system and the nanofiltration/Reverse Osmosis (nF/RO) membrane skid. The facility is also equipped with other conventional water and liquid waste treatment equipment such as jar test units, ion-exchange systems, filter press, activated carbon bed, etc.
- Nanotechnology Research Facility
This facility is equipped with the basic equipment for the fabrication of inorganic nanoparticles and their surface modification for a variety of applications. It provides staff and students with the opportunity to be directly involved in the emerging field of nanotechnology, ie, R&D at the atomic, molecular or macromolecular levels. It involves creating and using structures, devices and systems that have novel properties and functions due to their small sizes.
- Nutrition Assessment Facility
This facility comprises a counselling and observation room equipped with sophisticated facilities for focus group discussions and nutrition counselling sessions. It allows for anthropometric assessments like skinfold measurement and bioelectrical impedance analysis and dietary assessments to be conducted. This facility serves to provide a realistic training ground for students and has the capacity to undertake nutrition research projects.
- Plant Tissue Culture Training Facility
This facility serves as a platform for students to acquire knowledge of operation for the mass propagation of tissue culture plantlets in an actual production environment. Here, students are not only trained in specific tissue culture laboratory skills, they are also exposed to the process and workflow in a real-life production environment. In this way, they can better appreciate the industrial applications of different laboratory techniques taught in class.
- Proteomics Research Facility
This facility positions the School as a centre for proteomics R&D and training. It is equipped with instruments for protein prefractionation, two-dimensional gel analysis, two-dimensional high performance liquid chromatography, gel spot cutting/ processing and protein identification (via MALDI) so as to provide the capability to perform the main steps of a proteomics workflow. The facility also has the capabilities for molecular and biochemical analysis of the identified proteins.
- Temasek Animal Facility
Comprising two workstations, namely the Laboratory Animal Workstation and the Aquaculture Workstation, this facility provides a conducive training environment for students to learn essential skills related to both aquaculture and laboratory animal science and technology.
- Temasek Applied Science Research Centre
This is a 1,400 square metre centralised location for major research activities in chemical and life sciences within the School. Its state-of-the-art facilities promote inter-disciplinary research among staff and collaborative work with the industry and institutions of higher learning. The centre comprises various laboratory facilities such as a Certified Class 10,000 lab, Bio-Safety Labs, Analytical Testing & Services Labs, Nutrition Counselling Room and various specialised research labs for Traditional Chinese Medicine, proteomics, fermentation and plant biotechnology.
- TP Herb Gardens
With a collection of more than 120 species of medicinal plants, the gardens are part of the School’s comprehensive technical competency development in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It comprises an open concept garden and a specially designed nursery. It is a useful teaching tool for the identification and classification of plants commonly used in TCM.
- TP Hydroponic Greenhouse
The greenhouse is equipped with several units of hydroponic orchid growth system, hydroponic growth system with chilled medium (both developed by the School), nutrient Film Technique growth system, Deep Flow Water Culture growth system and one unit of aeroponics. It also houses a workroom which permits artificial light experiments, ion analysis and post harvest experimental work to be conducted. There is also a nutrient preparation room and a harvesting area.
- 1st Avenue
An on-campus retail training store managed by students, 1st Avenue helps to develop students’ entrepreneurial acumen through hands-on retailing store management. The facility will be used by students to develop skills and expertise in managing all aspects of retail operations.
- Accounting & Finance Reuters Lab
Students can explore the exciting financial markets and a real trading environment with online share prices, interest rates, bond, currency and derivative prices worldwide using Reuters. Information and news from diverse sources can be gleaned from Factiva, a state-of-the-art research tool widely used in the finance industry. A computerised accounting software, ACCPAC for windows, is also on hand for the accounts enthusiasts.
- Business Technology Labs
The Labs are designed to support the teaching of the latest information technologies to students. They allow staff and students to explore application software, programming languages, and emerging technologies in a structured manner. These labs are used for student research, projects and presentations.
- Centre for Logistics & Operations Management
This centre houses laboratories that simulate the entire logistics chain. It includes a warehouse management system, operations management subsystem and transport and distribution subsystem. It is also equipped with logistics simulation games that teach the concepts used in logistics and operations management.
- E-Business Centre
The Centre offers a training platform for students to learn the complexity of using state-of-the-art technology in electronic business development. It aims to provide a real-life project development environment for students and staff to work on electronic business projects. It can also be used as a launch pad for ecommerce projects or as proof-of-concept for industry partners.
- Focus Group Room
This is a multi-purpose marketing research training room. Fully-equipped as with a real commercial focus group room, it allows observation of group discussions and sales presentations.
- iLaw Chambers
The ILaw Chambers is a simulated law office training facility set up with the intention of exposing final-year students to the full workflow involved in running a legal matter. It is used to train students in the day to day running of a typical law firm, from the moment a client brings in a new matter to the time the case is closed and the client billed.
- Kelly Services Career Centre
The centre operates as a branch of one of Singapore’s leading staffing agencies, Kelly Services (a Fortune 500 company and listed on NASDAQ). It gives students hands-on training in international recruiting and staffing practices.
- LegaLab
The Lab offers students training and practice in a wide range of software as well as electronic filing and information retrieval systems used in the courts and the legal profession.
- Newsroom & Publishing Room
These facilities replicate the real print-journalism environment. The newsroom represents the frontend of the news production process involving reporters and editors, while the Publishing Room involves the back-end subediting process where page layout is done. Journalism students use the facilities to produce a regular student newspaper and gain valuable hands-on experience working in a newsroom set-up.
- Simultaneous Interpretation for Meetings (SIM) Lab
The SIM Lab is used for training in simultaneous interpretation. Equipped with four simultaneous interpretation booths and other supporting facilities, this classroom simulates international conferences that require simultaneous interpretation services.
- Silicon Studios
The twin Silicon Studios are equipped with state-of-the-art multimedia facilities to enable students to do project research, make presentations and engage in collaborative learning. Besides workstations and an intelligent classroom management system, there are network points for students to access the network and other IT facilities using notebooks. Wireless access to the network is also possible in the Silicon Studios.
- Temasek Culinary Academy
The training complex houses our new and modern kitchens as well as two attractive and contemporary dining outlets. The kitchens comprise the skills kitchen, asian and western kitchens, and a garde manger (cold kitchen). These training facilities will allow students to hone their skills in food preparation and serve as a platform to train them in the art of providing excellent service.
- Television Studio
This 200-square-metre Studio comes fully-equipped with the latest in broadcast technology equipment that allows students to learn how to produce their own television programmes and news bulletins. This studio is also equipped with state-of-the-art post-production facilities for online and off-line editing.
- The Brand Hub
Understanding the world of branding is a key competitive advantage for our marketing graduates. The Brand Hub was set up with this in mind. Subjects such as Brand Management and Integrated Marketing Communications are conducted in this state-of-the-art facility. It also provides the perfect setting for students to meet their real-life clients and develop and produce marketing strategies to build their clients’ brand image.
- The Communication Hub
The Communication Hub is specially designed to support communication learning. It is well equipped with facilities to help students experience various aspects of corporate communication work, especially in the areas of corporate journalism and publications, media relations and news dissemination. Facilities include digital cameras and desktop publishing equipment. The layout of the Hub is also specially designed for Problem-based Learning discussions.
- Travel Planners at Temasek Polytechnic
Travel Planners is a collaborative venture between TP and Safe2Travel Pte Ltd that provides a real-life travel agency within the campus. This agency exposes students to the diverse and critical roles they will play in the travel business, and equips them with the required operational and managerial skills that will enhance the development of a customercentric working attitude.
- Animation Rooms
Here, students create 2D and 3D animation forms using line test machines, stop-motion cameras and high-end computer workstations.
- Centre for Design Innovation
As the design and consulting centre of the school, CDI seeks to be the design think-tank and resource for new thinking and design direction. It is dedicated to creating high impact, result-oriented design solutions, and offers fresh-thinking and future-focused consultancy and design services to a wide range of clients. CDI responds to needs in research and consulting in the broad areas of apparel design, new product concepts and design, branding and visual communication, new media design, and interior space and architectural design.
- Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing Laboratories
Equipped with the latest hardware, CAID and 3D modelling software, the CAM facilities enable students to add professionalism to their apparel and textile designs, mood boards and merchandising projects. The CAM facilities enable them to relate to the production aspect of the apparel industry. Students can add professional lustre to their apparel and textile design projects here.
- Corporate Training Room
Specially catering to design professionals, this is where the School offers part-time and specialist courses for working practitioners who are keen to upgrade themselves and keep up with the latest in various fields of design. By providing training resources for the design community, the School contributes towards advancing new learning technologies in education; providing training for on-line publishing; and supporting capability development for the growing interactive and digital media industry.
- Digital Photography Studio
Equipped with the latest in technology and innovation, the digital photo studio caters to the emergence and convergence of electronic manipulation, traditional media and analogue imaging.
- Heavy Model Making Workshop
This is a comprehensive workshop for wood, metal, plastic and ceramics work. Here, students will explore 3D ideas and concepts and learn the basics of product semantics through making maquettes, highly finished models and aesthetic prototypes.
- Hereafter Post-Production Lab
This is the first post-production laboratory in the region using Apple’s High Definition (HD) technology and 2K workflow. This new high-end facility features the latest, state-of-the-art HD post-production editing suites used in industry today. Using the latest equipment and editing software, the suites represent a complete workflow from filming to editing in HD format. The new technology allows students to film and edit on the go, cutting post-production time significantly.
- Human-Centred Design Laboratory
The habits and manners which people interact with the world are extremely important to designers in their effort to design meaningful products, services, messages or systems. This laboratory is a controlled environment in which human behaviour is observed and studied.
- Light & Sound Studio
The studio enables students to experience, experiment, measure and assess the effects of lighting and sound quality in an interior environment.
- Model Photo & Simulation Room
This room is used primarily for taking interior photographs of models to support studio-based projects and self-directed learning. It is equipped with a sophisticated modelscope, digital camera, computer, and basic photographic accessories complete with lighting, product table and backdrops. A library offers Interior Architecture & Design students the opportunity to access material samples and supplier catalogues to enable students to learn how to work professionally.
- Post-Production Rooms
Post-production of video works is done in this suite. It includes industry-standard editing facilities, and a sound effects library.
- TV Studio
A scene from a sit-com? A news segment? A talk show? Here’s where ideas come to life on the TV screen. This TV studio includes a complete three camera set-up with a control room, lighting and sound consoles with Beta recording and playback equipment.
Following the successful implementation of Competency Units (CUs) within the School of Engineering (ENG) several years ago, the School has expanded on the scope and functions of these CUs. This revision has enabled our CUs to assume a higher level of responsibility and commitment to our strategic partners.
Since then, progress and growth have brought ENG to another juncture of rationalisation – that of clustering relevant competency units to form 7 centres. These centres aim to enable ENG to contribute to, and play more significant roles in, technology areas that are in line with national initiatives and emphases.
- Biomedical Engineering Research Centre
This interdisciplinary research centre provides the platform to promote the interaction of clinicians, chemists, bio-chemists, electrical & electronic engineers, mechanical engineers and industrial designers to invent, innovate and provide cost effective solutions in the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The centre also aims to provide the technology to the industry for commercialisation as well as the expertise in biomedical regulatory compliance.
- Clean Energy Centre
This centre deals with clean energy technology and applications such as fuel cell technology and applications, solid-state power electronics and energy efficiency and management. It has modern research facilities with state-of-the-art equipment for conducting applied and industry-relevant research & development in clean energy technology such as fuel cell technology, LED lighting, solar-hydrogen technology & applications and analogue switching power circuits.
- Infocomm Solutions Centre
The centre focuses on core technologies involving enterprise web services & solutions, network technologies, mobile applications and game development. The objective is to proliferate and develop these technologies for research & development, training and industry collaborations. The centre has identified hospitality & tourism, healthcare, education and digital entertainment as strategic areas/sectors in which to develop strong domain knowledge. It seeks to continually renew and align itself with IDA’s iN2015 initiatives. Thus far, the centre has successfully partnered consortiums led by industry champions in various Calls for Collaborations (CFC), namely, Connecting the Community CFC (2002), Healthcare CFC (2004) and FutureSchools@SG CFC (2008). Some of the key collaboration partners include Philips Electronics (S) Pte Ltd, Microsoft Singapore, ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) Pte Ltd, Sun Microsystems, National Institute of Education, Information Technology Standards Committee (ITSC), and Motorola Electronics (S) Pte Ltd.
- Interactive Digital Centre Asia (IDC Asia)
IDC Asia is a strategic partnership founded by Temasek Polytechnic, IM Innovations Pte Ltd and EON Reality Inc., and is supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). The centre aims to provide leadership in user-inspired research, innovative application development and system integration to support 3D visualisation technologies. IDC Asia's role is to help the various industry sectors such as healthcare, education, transportation, aerospace, architecture, construction and engineering adopt innovative Interactive Digital Media (IDM) solutions in order to gain a competitive advantage in their business. IDC Asia is positioned as a leading virtual and physical hub for connectivity, innovation and collaboration amongst the Interactive Digital Media (IDM) community, especially in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region.
- Robotics & Automation Centre
This centre strives to foster, develop and promote technologies through innovation, applied research, capability development and application in robotics and automation relevant to industry needs. The core technological areas include wireless sensor network, embedded intelligent system, robotic navigation, path planning, obstacle navigation, motion control for research robots, programmable/motion control for automation, machine vision, process control and simulation. The areas of focus are:
- Micro-controller Application
- Embedded Intelligent System
- Edutainment Robotics
- Building / Construction Sector Robotics
- Research Robotics
- Factory Automation
- Process Simulation, Control and Automation
- Machine Vision
- Temasek Aviation & Aerospace Centre
This centre was created to meet the needs of the aviation/aerospace industry for quality training, consultancy and collaborative industry-focused applied research projects. The centre’s core competencies lie in the areas of:
- Aviation management, specialising in airport/airline operations, air traffic management & flight operation, and cabin hospitality & safety
- Aerospace electronics, specialising in avionics, flight instrumentation, and aircraft ground run simulation
- Aerospace engineering, specialising in developing training technology for aerospace systems and materials
Equipped with state of the art training and research facilities, the centre aims to collaborate with like-minded industry players and training institutions to further the industry’s human resources development, safety and economic goals.
- Temasek Microelectronics Centre
Microelectronics has emerged with more stringent, complex and competitive standards, as it moves towards the nano era. This centre upgrades and matches capabilities in these standards while focusing on the main area of Micro-Electro- Mechanical Systems (MEMS). 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.
- Computer & Network Security Laboratory - Centurion Centre
This centre provides a flexible and realistic IT and network security training environment. It is designed with a fully operational, stand-alone network infrastructure that provides a test-bed for the evaluation of hardware, software and security concepts. It allows you to experiment with security concepts in a realistic environment without the risks and restrictions normally associated with a “live” network. You will be able to set up and secure Internet servers, identification management servers, configure security policies, implement secured e-business transactions, set up an experimental Public Key Infrastructure and perform system confidentiality tests using encryption/ decryption tools.
- Human Computer Interaction Centre
This centre is equipped with real-world facilities for conducting usability testing. It provides an ideal environment for competency training in the usability engineering life cycle, with the aim of enhancing the user experience of interacting with software applications and information appliances. The Centre has collaborated with companies like Motorola and Honeywell on research projects in usability prototyping and evaluation.
- TP-Avaya IP Telephony Competency Unit
This unit, established in collaboration with Avaya, is equipped with the latest IP-Telephony equipment and software to facilitate engagement in industrial projects. It is used to train Temasek Polytechnic students in the design, development and implementation of IP-based business communication systems and Voice-Over-Internet Protocol (VOIP) applications.
- TP-Business Objects Business Intelligence Centre
This centre has been established in collaboration with Business Objects, an SAP company, aiming to facilitate engagement in industry projects. It hosts Business Objects Business Intelligence suite of software that enables students to learn the processes of data integration, query and reporting, online analytical processing, and statistical analysis to help companies make better decisions.
- TP-HP Software Quality Assurance Centre
This centre has been established in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Singapore Pte Ltd. It will be equipped with the latest HP Quality Assurance software for in-house and industry projects. The centre will also employ the latest methodologies and best practices to develop core competencies in software quality assurance.
- TP-IBM Centre for IT Security
This centre has been established on an IBM security framework and technology which provides training to students in the most current IT security industry and technology trends, providing our students with an environment that simulates a real life work environment. The centre will also promote industry collaboration by allowing students and staff to undertake relevant industry projects, research and development involving security technology.
- TP-Microsoft Digital Media Solutions Centre
TP and Microsoft are jointly setting up this special digital media centre to meet the needs of industry for manpower and solutions in Interactive Digital Media. This centre focuses on the areas of solutions exploration, development, testing, review and proof of concept. Students and staff will gain competency in the latest Microsoft technologies and be able to engage with industry on projects that relate to interactive media and game development.
- TP-Reuters Financial Risk Management Centre
This centre is equipped with state-of the-art Reuters information systems. With Reuters premium financial information terminals, and a fully integrated front-to-back solutions facility, Temasek Polytechnic students have the unique opportunity to learn in a live financial market environment that familiarizes them with investment banking and risk management operations.
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