Achievements
In our School of Engineering, we continually achieve!
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The School has been conferred the inaugural Tan Kah Kee School Award for its active participation and contribution of innovative ideas in the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor’s Award competition over the years – testifying to the strong technical competency and innovative spirit of our students.
We have also been bestowed the Engineering School Award by the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand, for our long-standing collaboration in the field of student immersion and internships – it is an endorsement of our efforts in enriching our students with practical industry-relevant skill-sets through rigorous internships, while cultivating a global perspective.
The string of competitive victories achieved by our students, year after year, underscores not just our students’ knowledge and competency, but also the quality of the training that we provide them here in our School of Engineering — You can be one of them, too!
The WorldSkills Singapore (WSS) is a national skills competition held biennially to discover the best in talents among the youth in Singapore. Similar to a Skills Olympics, the WSS represents the pinnacle of skills excellence and outstanding performers progress to represent Singapore in the prestigious international-level WorldSkills Competition.
Our TP Engineering students have performed remarkably well in the WSS over the years, and some have gone on to win international acclaim -- a testimony to the high skills competency of our students, moulded, no doubt, by our lecturers’ expert coaching, rigorous training curriculum, state-of-the-art facilities, and our strong learning ecosystem.
To view our WSS results, click here.
Gold Award
This is a fuel efficiency competition in which contestants design, build, and race their own eco-friendly car on a track, to see which car uses the least fuel to complete a given 10km course. TP's School of Engineering has won the competition (hydrogen category) 3 times, in 2018, 2019, and 2022 (there was no physical race in 2020 and 2021) with their TP Eco Car that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell, called “Falcon-1000”. This patented fuel cell is the world’s highest density fuel cell, and was designed by TP staff and students in collaboration with an industry partner.
In July 2023, the TP Eco Flash team participated in the Asia-Pacific cum Middle East Regional Eco Marathon Race held in Indonesia, and emerged champion, beating formidable teams from around the world. The TP team will now represent Singapore and the region in the Eco Marathon World Championship to be held in India in Oct 2023.
1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze, 1 Best Prototype award
Our Engineering students clinched a Gold, a Silver, and a Bronze award, as well as the Best Prototype Award at the Assistive & Rehabilitation Technologies Student Innovation Challenge (ARTSIC) Competition 2020. The “Smart Glove”, designed to test the finger motor skills of a patient, won the Gold; while “A Smart Trip Down Memory Lane”, a game to test and improve the memory of dementia patients, took the Silver as well as the Best Project Prototype Award. A third project, called the “Smart Insole”, to predict the risk of foot ulcers in diabetic patients, clinched the Bronze.
1 Gold, 1 Bronze, 1 Merit, Best Presentation award, Best Poster award
They did equally well the following year (2021), with the “Home Based Sleep Apnea System” winning Gold, the “Reading Assistive Educator” clinching Bronze, and the “Anti Snoring Device” taking a Merit award.
Merit award
Our Aerospace students won the Merit award in the Space Challenge 2020, a prestigious competition organised by the Singapore Space and Technology Association. After intensive study and research, they proposed the concept of a space-craft to reduce the amount of space debris such as decommissioned satellites, defunct rockets and exploded mechanical parts that are currently floating in space. The proposed space-craft would be able to capture and retrieve orbiting debris, which would then disintegrate as the space craft re-enters the earth’s atmosphere.
Over the years, our Engineering students have excelled in this competition, testifying to not just their technical excellence, but also their creativity and strong environmental awareness.
1 Silver, 1 Bronze, 1 Commendation, 1 Encouragement award (2021)
A project by Biomedical Engineering students to convert used cooking oil into eco-friendly soap won the Silver award, while the “Smart Water-Saving Shower” took the Bronze. The “Robotic Water Trash Collector” received a Commendation, while an “Urban Farming” idea clinched an Encouragement award.
1 Gold award (2022)
A solar-powered carbon-capturing device that uses algae and calcium carbonate to remove up to 20% of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, won our students the Gold award and Team award.
Five students from the Diploma in Aerospace Engineering invented a system to test the air-conditioning of a bus using wireless temperature probes hung at various points inside the cabin. The readings are automatically sent, via WIFI, to a base station that analyses the data, reducing maintenance time by up to 70% compared to the current method of manual temperature collection. Their invention clinched the Bronze award in the Singapore BusTech Grand Challenge, a competition jointly organised by the Singapore Bus Academy and the Employment & Employability Institute (e2i), held on 26 Nov 2022.
