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WorldSkills Singapore 2025

Biomedical Engineering students clinched a hard-earned Gold and a Silver award in the Autonomous Mobile Robotics category of the WorldSkills Singapore competition 2025.

The prestigious WSS competition represents the pinnacle of vocational skills, where the best in Singapore compete in their respective trade categories.

Students:
Esben Mong Junrui, Warren Khaw Bin Lei

Engineering Innovation Challenge

Demonstrating their innovative spirit and ability to apply what they have learnt, Biomedical Engineering students won a Silver award (and $100 seed funding) in the national Engineering Innovation Challenge 2004.

Their project, “Enhancing Natural Anti-microbial Properties of Food Packaging”, uses Nisin, an FDA-approved natural peptide to coat the interior of food packagings via a unique process, replacing the need for harmful chemical preservatives.

Students:
Fedora Lim Li Xuan, Lam Xuan Qing Amber

The Doctor is in!

Joshua Teo Han Wei who graduated from the Diploma in Biomedical Engineering (Merit) in 2012, achieved a first when he was admitted to the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS in 2014.   After a long journey, he finally fulfilled his childhood dream to be a medical doctor, obtaining his MBBS in 2019 -- becoming the first Engineering student from TP to do so. 

Now a General Practitioner in a private medical group, the energetic doctor recalled his days in TP: “I am grateful to my diploma for giving me the basic engineering skill sets and research techniques, that have helped me to achieve my dream,” he said.

ARTSIC

Three Biomedical Engineering students invented a unique Anti-Snoring Oral Device, achieving a Merit Award as well as Best Poster award in annual Assistive & Rehabilitation Technologies Student Innovation Challenge (ARTSIC) 2021.

The device is inserted into a patient’s mouth during sleep, so as to prevent the tongue from sliding backwards into the throat, thereby eliminating snoring.

Students:
Alvin Teo Xi Hao, Chin Fu Jie, Yang Quan Kang Sean