Faculty of Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering MESSAGE FROM CEE HEAD 10 Jul 2019 Dear CEE Colleagues, students, alumni and partners, On behalf of CEE Department, may I convey my heartiest congratulations to our 2019 graduands. The NUS Commencement ceremony will be taking place on 16 Jul 2019 at 10 am at the NUS University Cultural Centre (UCC). We are honoured to have our Civil Engineering Alumni Er. Chua Tong Seng, President of the Association of Consulting Engineers Singapore and Managing Director of Kiso-Jiban Singapore Pte Ltd, a consultancy firm specialized in Geotechnical Engineering works as our Commencement Guest Speaker. A total of 461 CEE students will be conferred degrees in 2019, comprising 184 undergraduates, 243 Masters and 34 PhD graduands. Since the last message, a number of important events have taken place. We are happy to share that our department has overtaken the University of Cambridge and the University of California at Berkeley to clinch second spot in a global subject ranking of varsity departments (highest rank achieved by a local university) in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject in the field of Civil and Structural Engineering, released on 27 Feb 2019 by higher education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took the top spot. NUS has retained its QS ranking of 10 th position in Environmental Sciences. All these would not have been possible without your contributions and we would like to record our sincere appreciation. NUS invited a team of three top academics from renowned universities to conduct an independent review of CEE Department from 19 – 21 Mar 2019 with regards to our research and education. The team is chaired by Prof George Deodatis from Columbia University. Other members are Prof Chelsea White from Georgia Institute of Technology and Prof Benito J. Marinas from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Prof Chow Gan Moog from NUS Department of Materials Science and Engineering served as our resource person. The Visiting Committee generously wrote a commendable report with some advice on our future direction. We would like to thank our alumni, industry partners, students and staff for their valuable support and feedback during the visit. A new team of 13 industry partners kindly accepted our invitation to be member of the Department Consultative Committee for the new term spanning 1 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2020. Chaired by Mr Chin Chi Leong, Deputy CEO and Building Commissioner, BCA, the primary purpose is to gather valuable feedback and suggestions for the department on collaborations with industry, curricula and degree programmes, industrial training, research matters and insights into the state and needs of the industry. The department is also honoured by the visit of Ms Ho Ching, CEO of Temasek and delegates from Temasek Foundation International to our department on 20 Nov 2018. The department shared the latest developments of our educational programmes, including those related to digitalization and skills-future in line with our nation’s effort. Our students presented Operation Orion, a student-initiated community service project which started in 2000 to sharpen students’ knowledge and skills in designing and building infrastructure in rural villages around Asia. The team also visited the Centre for Advanced Materials and Structure (CAMS) to view selected research projects that focused on driving sustainability via innovation in lightweight and ultra-high performance concrete, use of waste (excavation-waste, bio-waste, incineration- waste) as cement replacement, and self-healing concrete. Prof Quek Ser Tong, Head of CEE, Prof Chua Kee Chaing, Dean of Engineering with Ms Ho Ching, CEO of Temasek during the visit
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Faculty of Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
MESSAGE FROM CEE HEAD 10 Jul 2019 Dear CEE Colleagues, students, alumni and partners, On behalf of CEE Department, may I convey my heartiest congratulations to our 2019 graduands. The NUS Commencement ceremony will be taking place on 16 Jul 2019 at 10 am at the NUS University Cultural Centre (UCC). We are honoured to have our Civil Engineering Alumni Er. Chua Tong Seng, President of the Association of Consulting Engineers Singapore and Managing Director of Kiso-Jiban Singapore Pte Ltd, a consultancy firm specialized in Geotechnical Engineering works as our Commencement Guest Speaker. A total of 461 CEE students will be conferred degrees in 2019, comprising 184 undergraduates, 243 Masters and 34 PhD graduands. Since the last message, a number of important events have taken place. We are happy to share that our department has overtaken the University of Cambridge and the University of California at Berkeley to clinch second spot in a global subject ranking of varsity departments (highest rank achieved by a local university) in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject in the field of Civil and Structural Engineering, released on 27 Feb 2019 by higher education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took the top spot. NUS has retained its QS ranking of 10th position in Environmental Sciences. All these would not have been possible without your contributions and we would like to record our sincere appreciation. NUS invited a team of three top academics from renowned universities to conduct an independent review of CEE Department from 19 – 21 Mar 2019 with regards to our research and education. The team is chaired by Prof George Deodatis from Columbia University. Other members are Prof Chelsea White from Georgia Institute of Technology and Prof Benito J. Marinas from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof Chow Gan Moog from NUS Department of Materials Science and Engineering served as our resource person. The Visiting Committee generously wrote a commendable report with some advice on our future direction. We would like to thank our alumni, industry partners, students and staff for their valuable support and feedback during the visit. A new team of 13 industry partners kindly accepted our invitation to be member of the Department Consultative Committee for the new term spanning 1 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2020. Chaired by Mr Chin Chi Leong, Deputy CEO and Building Commissioner, BCA, the primary purpose is to gather valuable feedback and suggestions for the department on collaborations with industry, curricula and degree programmes, industrial training, research matters and insights into the state and needs of the industry. The department is also honoured by the visit of Ms Ho Ching, CEO of Temasek and delegates from Temasek Foundation International to our department on 20 Nov 2018. The department shared the latest developments of our educational programmes, including those related to digitalization and skills-future in line with our nation’s effort. Our students presented Operation Orion, a student-initiated community service project which started in 2000 to sharpen students’ knowledge and skills in designing and building infrastructure in rural villages around Asia. The team also visited the Centre for Advanced Materials and Structure (CAMS) to view selected research projects that focused on driving sustainability via innovation in lightweight and ultra-high performance concrete, use of waste (excavation-waste, bio-waste, incineration-waste) as cement replacement, and self-healing concrete.
Prof Quek Ser Tong, Head of CEE, Prof Chua Kee Chaing, Dean of Engineering with Ms Ho Ching, CEO
of Temasek during the visit
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The future of CEE Department’s research continues to look healthy and bright, having received new grants from funding agencies of over 22 projects totaling SGD 10.25 million awarded from January to June 2019. The new 2,000 tonne test rig in our structures laboratory is now operational, thanks to the support of Yongnam, NUS Provost Office, Dean’s Office and Sembcorp-NUS Corporate Laboratory. For the coming first year engineering undergraduates joining us in August 2019, the Faculty of Engineering will prepare them to be future-adaptable by requiring them to take common modules related to computing, machine learning, system thinking, design and make, materials engineering, communciations, and engineering principles and practice. In addition, CEE Department has mounted a new Specialization on Digitalization in Urban Infrastructure under both the B. Eng. (Civil) and B. Eng. (Envirionmental Engineering) programmes. A new joint Master’s degree programme with IFP School, France, in Petroleum Projects and Offshore Technology will open its door to the first batch of students in August 2019. It is an intensive programme to produce professionals capable of fast adaptation to answer the needs of the petroleum industry. It has attracted applicants from Asia, Europe, and Africa. On staff movement, congratulations to Dr Poh Leong Hien on his promotion to Associate Professorship from 1 July 2018. Prof Koh Chan Ghee has been appointed as Director of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (LRFI) with effect from 1 May 2019. A/Prof Qian Xudong succeeded him as the new Group Head for Structural and Offshore Engineering. Prof Ng How Yong has been appointed Provost’s Chair with effect from 1 Jan 2019. He also holds the positions of Director, Sembcorp-NUS Corporate Laboratory and Director, NUS Environmental Research Institute. Dr. Liu Yang is jointly appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Systems Engineering and Management Department and the CEE Department effective 1 Jan 2019. Previously, Dr. Liu worked as a consultant at Cambridge Systematics and provided modeling expertise to public agencies such as Chicago Department of Transportation. Dr. Okky Ahmad Purwana joined the Department on 6 May 2019 as an Associate Professor (Practice Track) after accumulating 13-years of industrial experience focussing mainly on jack-up rig engineering & operations. He obtained his PhD degree on mobile offshore platform foundations from the National University of Singapore in 2007. He started his career at Keppel Offshore & Marine in 2006 as a geotechnical engineer at the company’s engineering and R&D arms and held a managerial position from 2011. CEE Department is proud to announce that NUS has accorded Emeritus Professorship to Dr Fwa Tien Fang and Dr Somsak Swaddiwudhipong as well as Honorary Fellowship to Dr Tam Chat Tim. Well done and congratulations. The department wishes to acknowledge the dedicated services rendered by our colleagues. Prof Zhang Min-Hong has resigned in June 2019, Laboratory Technologists Mr. Chandrasegaran s/o S Govindaraju (Environmental Lab) and Mr Koh Yian Kheng (Structural Lab) retired on 31 Jan 2019 and 31 Mar 2019 respectively. We thank them for their many years of dedicated service to the faculty and department and wish them all the best in their new undertakings. As always, do feel free to send us your feedback, suggestions, as well as information on internship and career opportunities. You can find our updates on the department website and events calendar at http://cee.nus.edu.sg. In closing, I wish our friends, alumni, staff and students a wonderful second half of 2019. With sincere and warm regards. Professor Quek Ser Tong Head & Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS Block E1A, #07-03, 1 Engineering Drive 2, Singapore 117576 Tel: (65) 6516 4512 Fax : (65) 6779 1635 Website: www.eng.nus.edu.sg/cee Company Registration No: 200604346E
Department matters
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Staff Appointments Keppel Chair Prof Quek Ser Tong, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering has been re-appointed as Head of CEE from 1 Jul 2019. Prof Ng How Yong has appointed Provost’s Chair with effect from 1 Jan 2019. Dr Poh Leong Hien has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure from 1 Jul 2018. Prof Koh Chan Ghee has been appointed as Director of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (LRFI) with effect from 1 May 2019. A/Prof Qian Xudong succeeded him as the new Group Head for Structural and Offshore Engineering with effect from 1 May 2019. Prof Zhang Min-Hong has resigned from NUS and her last day at CEE was on 14 Jun 2019. The department thank Prof Zhang for over twenty years of dedicated years of service of teaching and serves as Director of Centre for Protective Technology in the Engineering Faculty since 2010. Dr Ooi Seng Keat will join us on 1 August 2019 as Senior Lecturer. He will hold a joint appointment with TMSI where he is currently working.
Dr. Liu Yang is jointly appointed as an Assistant professor in the Industrial Systems Engineering and Management Department and the CEE Department (effective 1 Jan 2019). Previously, Dr. Liu worked as a consultant at Cambridge Systematics and provided modeling expertise to public agencies such as Chicago Department of Transportation. Dr. Liu's research covers various topics in the areas of travel demand and congestion management, ridesharing and carsharing systems operations and design, resilient supply chains, and information provision in risky networks. Her work has been published in the major journals in the field
such as Transportation Research Part A: Policy, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, and Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. She currently serves as a member on the editorial advisory board of Transportation Research Part B. She has served as Area Editor for 2017 COTA International Conference for Transportation Professionals and a member of IEEE ITS Education Committee. She has worked on the research projects funded by US and Singapore public agencies, including US Federal Highway Administration, National Science Foundation, and Singapore Ministry of Education.
Dr. Okky Ahmad Purwana joined the Department on 6 May 2019 as an Associate Professor (Practice Track) after accumulating 13-years of industrial experience focussing mainly on jack-up rig engineering & operations. He obtained his PhD degree on mobile offshore platform foundations from the National University of Singapore in 2007. He started his career at Keppel Offshore & Marine in 2006 as a geotechnical engineer at the company’s engineering and R&D arms and held a managerial position from 2011. In 2014, he joined DNV GL Noble Denton marine services to set up and manage a jack-up and geotechnical engineering team
supporting marine operations of jack-up rig transportations, installations and geohazards mitigations in the region of South East Asia and Australia. He received the Best Civil Engineering Paper Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2012 for his contribution to the development of the new international standard on “Site-specific Assessment of Mobile Jack-up Units (ISO 19905-1)”. He was involved in approximately 200 jack-up rig moves during his service in DNV GL Noble Denton and was awarded “Focused Recognition” by Petronas in 2017 for the success of managing jack-up installation at a very challenging offshore drilling well in Malaysia. He currently serves as a core member of ISO TC67/SC7/WG7/Panel 4 (Foundation) and holds a total of nine international patents related to offshore foundations.
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Ms. Parameswari D/O Ramesh, Management Assistant Officer joined the department under Special Projects Team from 22 Apr 2019. Mrs Yap Chong Wei Leng has been transferred to join the Academic Team. Mr Wang Qi, Laboratory Technologist (Structural Lab) joined the department on 1 Jul 2019. We extend our warm welcome our new colleagues to our CEE family. The department showed our appreciation to our retiring staff by presenting them a plaque. Mr. Chandrasegaran s/o S Govindaraju, Laboratory Technologist, retired from service on 31 Jan 2019 while Mr Koh Yian Kheng (Structural Lab) retired on 31 Mar 2019.
Mr Koh Yian Kheng receiving an appreciation plaque from Prof Quek ST on 12 Mar 2019
In alignment with the updates on NUS Vision and Mission, the Engineering faculty and the CEE Department have modified the Vision and Mission accordingly and incorporated our CEE values.
The Engineering Accreditation Board visit on 27 – 28 Mar 2018 successfully re-accredited two undergraduate programmes; B. Eng (Civil) and B. Eng (Environmental). The certificates are appended below.
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The CEE Visiting Committee (VC) which comprised a team of three top academics from renowned universities visited the department to conduct an independent review of the Department, primarily on the quality of its teaching and research took place on 19 – 21 Mar 2019.
The VC members are: Prof George Deodatis (Chair)(Columbia University), Prof Chelsea White (Georgia Institute of Technology). Prof Benito J. Marinas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Prof Chow Gan Moog (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUS). The Department would like to thank our alumni, industry partners, students and staff for their valuable support and feedback during the visit.
Our Visiting Committee members and CEE Management CEE Visit: 19 - 21 Mar 2019
Seated from Left: Prof Benito J. Marinas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Prof George Deodatis (Chair), Columbia University, Prof Chelsea White, Georgia Tech and
Prof Chow Gan Moog, Dept of Materials Science & Engineering, NUS
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Dinner with Visiting Committee, Alumni, Department Consultative Committee, Industrial Partners and Faculty on 19 Mar 2019
Achievements and Recognition Appointments (chronological order) Prof Choo Yoo Sang Invited as Member of the Engineering Advisory Committee by the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Council for the term 1 Nov 2018 to 31 Oct 2021. Appointed as a member of the International Scientific Committee for the 9th International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures (ICSAS19) to be held in Bradford, UK from 3 - 5 Jul 2019. The ICSAS19 conference is organised by the School of Engineering, University of Bradford, UK. Prof Rajasekhar Balasubramanian was appointed as the judging panel for UON Singapore (a wholly-owned entity of the University of Newcastle, Australia) Young Sustainability Innovators Challenge Competition to be held at the NUS Cultural Centre on 1 Dec 2018. Faculty and Research Staff - Awards Teaching Awards Academic Year 2017/2018 Faculty level – Awardees received awards on 15 Mar 2019
Engineering Educator Award Honours List
Dr Lefebvre Olivier Patrick Dr Kuang Sze Chiang, Kevin
Dr Chian Siau Chen Darren A/Prof Poh Leong Hien
Innovative Teaching Award Commendation List
Dr Lefebvre Olivier Patrick (Silver) Dr Yeoh Ker-Wei Justin (Bronze)
A/Prof Pang Sze Dai Prof Richard Liew Jat Yuen Prof Lee Fook Hou Prof Koh Chang Ghee Dr Alex Lee King Yin
A/Prof Harry Tan Siew Ann received the Outstanding Geotechnical Award at the Annual General Meeting 2018 of Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS) held on 6 Dec 2018 at Mandarin Orchard Hotel, in recognition of his contribution to the profession and education of Geotechnical Engineers.
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Faculty and Research Staff - Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures A/Prof Karing Gin was invited to participate in Expert advisory meeting to WHO on Antibiotic Use and Wastewater Residues in Hamburg, Germany from 8 - 9 May 2019.
Faculty and Research Staff – Research Grant Congratulations to our colleagues on winning the following major grant awards (total project value >$1M).
Principal Investigator, Co PI
Funding Programme (Source of Funding)
Dept. Project Title Project month
Prof Chua Kim Huat, David
NRF Central Gap Fund – 2018 (NRF)
CEE Drone Inspection System for Building Facade
Feb 2019
Dr. Chew Soon Hoe; Dr. Li Yunyue
Cities of Tomorrow R&D Programme: Artificial Intelligence for Soil Recognition – 2018 (MND)
CEE Artificial Intelligence for Soil Recognition
Jun 2019
Competitions Operation Orion 2017, CE Club won Distinction for while OceaNUS, ESESC won the Merit for Student Life 2019 in the category: COMMUNITY SERVICE. This is the first win for OceaNUS.
Operation Orion 2017 won Distinction (left photo) while OCEANUS, ESESC student club (right
photo) won Merit for Student Life 2019 in the COMMUNITY SERVICE category
Teo Ying Shen (PhD candidate) Supervisor: Prof Hu Jiangyong and Prof Ong Say Leong Ding Han (PhD candidate) Supervisor: Prof Hu Jiangyong Teo Ying Shen won KKNN oral presentation award (3rd place) while Ding Han KKNN won the oral presentation award (honours mention) in the 28th KKNN Symposium held in Taipei, 4 - 6 Jul 2019.
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Past Events The 3rd NUS Upstream Petroleum Research Initiative (NUPRI) meeting was held on campus on 16 -17 May 2019. It was attended by about 100 students, academics and industry representatives. This two-day workshop highlights the ongoing research at the Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences Programme at NUS as well as partner organizations.
The 3rd NUS Upstream Petroleum Research Initiative (NUPRI) meeting participants
NUS Open Day 2019 was held on 9 Mar 2019 Sat at Sports Hall 1, Stephen Riady Centre, University Town while NUS CEE Engineering Open House 2019 took place on 18 May 2019 Sat at EA (Civil Engineering) and LT7 (Environmental Engineering). The event is for students who have been offered a place in NUS B. Eng. (Civil) or B. Eng. (Environmental).
NUS Open Day 2019 on 9 Mar 2019 at UTown at STEPHEN RIADY CENTRE Sports Hall 1
Engineering Open House on 18 May 2019 (left photo:Civil Engineering @Engineering
Department Meetings, Briefings and Activities Mr Chin Chi Leong, BCA chaired the first Department Consultative Committee (DCC) Meeting on 14 Mar 2019. The list of external DCC members is appended below.
S/N Name Designation 1. Mr Tan Yoong Heng
Principal Singapore Office Leader Civil & Transport Leader (S’pore) , Arup
2. Mr Chin Chi Leong (Chairman)
Deputy Chief Executive Officer(Building Control)/Commissioner of Buildings, BCA
3. Er Chung Choon San
Project Director (Construction), Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd
4. Er. Dr. Johnny Wong Liang Heng
Group Director, Building & Research Institute (BRI), HDB
CEO and Global Lead, Aviation, Surbana Jurong Private Limited
12. Mr Tai Xu Hong Director & Co-founder, WOW Kampung Pte Ltd
13. Dr Aziz Amirali Hasham Merchant Adjunct Professor
Executive Director, Deepwater Technology Group Pte Ltd & Marine Technology Development Pte Ltd
A CEE Department Meeting took place on 15 Feb 2019 to provide updates on department and Visiting Committee visit from 19 - 21 Mar 2019. CEE staff also gathered for a buffet lunch to celebrate the Chinese New Year after the meeting. Prior to it, the department held a department dinner on 25 Feb 2019 for all CEE staff. The department held a CEE Retreat on 19 Nov 2018 at NUS Suntec Guildhouse. The key objectives of this department retreat were to (i) discuss the future directions of CEE and (ii) review the existing CEE educational programmes and propose changes in the curriculum to be consistent with global trends in civil engineering and environmental engineering education.
Prof Quek Ser Tong, Head, CEE introduced Dr Liu Yang during the retreat (Left photo)
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Student Activities and Events Environmental Engineering Graduation Night for class of 2019 organised by ESESC student club was held on Changi Garden Chalet on 17 May 2019. CEE Day on 13 Feb 2019 was an annual event for students and staff organised by CE Club and ESESC to have a closer bonding time together.
Alumni sharing sessions with Civil Engineering Alumni Er Lim Kim Cheong, Partner at Lim Kim Cheong Consultants and Er Lee Yoon Moi, CEO, Low Keng Huat (Singapore) Ltd with our undergraduate and postgraduate students were held on 9 May 2019 and 13 May 2019 respectively. We appreciate very much the support from our alumni who took their precious time away from work to meet with our students during office hours.
Er Lim Kim Cheong (left photo) and Er Lee Yoon Moi (right photo) at the sharing sessions
Internship - 119 students (82 CVE and 37 EVE) had their 24 weeks of Industrial Attachment (IA) from Jany - Jun 2019 while 27 Students (20 CVE and 7 EVE) had their Vacation Internship Programme (VIP) (12 weeks) in May 2018. Dr Chew SH held several sharing sessions before the students started their internship attachment to equip our students with the desirable working attitude, behavior and deliverables to complete their internship successfully. At the end of their internship, the department will invite students to complete an e-survey to solicit feedback from them. The feedback will help us further improve the work processes and internship experience for our students and industrial partners. Civil Engineering Students FYP Poster Presentation day was held on 15 May 2019 in LT6. Among the 113 students who took B.Eng.(Civil) Dissertation, 63 students participated in the poster presentation. The poster judges were made up invited industrial partners and CEE academic staff. The industrial partners present were: Er David Ng Chew Chiat, ONE SMART Engineering Pte. Ltd, Er Lauw Su Wee, LSW Consulting Engineers Pte. Ltd., Er Lee Chee Weye, Surbana Jurong Consultants Pte. Ltd., Ms Liu Lihui,Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC). Dr Ng Tiong Guan, GeoEng Consultant Pte. Ltd., Er Robin Liao, Surbana Jurong Private Limited, Dr Sarma Anand, Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), Dr Tan Jun Yew, Samwoh Corporation Pte Ltd and Dr Xie Litian,Land Transport Authority (LTA). NUS Environmental Engineering & FYP Symposium was jointly organized by The Centre for Water Research (CWR) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), and NUS Environmental Research Institute (NERI), NUS on Friday 12 Apr 2019. The event sponsors were EUWA and NERI support. The invited speakers were Mr. Kwok Wai Choong, Deputy Director (Cluster Development), NEA on “The Environmental Services Industry: Opportunities and Challenges” and Dr. Shan Junhong, Senior Engineer, PUB on “R&D to Future-proof Singapore’s Water System”. The final B. Eng. (Environmental) students showcased 54 posters in 8 categories. The event was attended by 48 external guests.
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Final Year Environmental Engineering Students at Final Year Project Symposium 2019
BCA- NUS Networking Session 2019 involving 32 companies took place successfully on 25 Jan 2019 outside LT6 with 346 registered students from Engineering and SDE. Seven talks by industry partners (BCA, HDB, NTUC Young Leader, Andes Consultants Pte Ltd, Teambuild Construction Group, Aecom Singapore Pte Ltd and Schindler Lifts (S) Pte Ltd.) took place at LT6.
Site Visits: With the support of industry partners, academic staff and student clubs, the students visited the following companies and the work sites to gain some practical knowledge:
Company/ Site Date Faculty
CE4103 DESIGN PROJECT (Project C: Geometric Design of temporary roadway and
temporary support) Hanson Precast (S) Pte Ltd, Tanah Merah Coast Road Upgrading, Kaki Bukit Ave 4 – AAS: Bartley Road
East Viaduct and Braddell & Mc Ritchie Viaducts
17 Jan 2019
A/Prof Goh Siang Huat, Dr Kong Kian Hau and
Er Tan See Chee (Adjunct Associate
Professor)
ESE1102 PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Singapore Botanic Gardens
29 & 30 Jan 2019
Dr Lefebvre Olivier Patrick and Dr Alex Lee
TechnipFMC Asiaflex Products Pasir Gudang, Tanjung Langsat, Johor
1 Mar 2019
Dr Paul Ong
Marina Barrage 25 Mar 2019
A/Prof Vladan and A/Prof Karina Gin
ESE3001 WATER QUALITY ENGINEERING Site visit at Lorong Halus Wetland to learn about solid and
hazardous waste management
16 Apr 2019
A/Prof He Jianzhong
ESE3301. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
Project SEPI was a 5D4N trip to Bintan, Indonesia, to build a sustainable wastewater treatment plant system in one of the
villages to improve their sanitation.
20-24 May 2019
Dr Bae Sung Woo
CE3102 SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY SUSTAINABLE
This year’s field trip to two villages in Yunnan, China was to propose an updated master plan for each village.
Jun 2019 A/Prof Chew Sooh Hoe
A/Prof Chin Hoong Chor
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ESE3301 Project SEPI at Bintan, Indonesia in May 2019
CE3102 field trip to Yunan, China in June 2019
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CESE) Camp 2019 organised by the two students clubs; CE Club and ESESC took place from 9 to 12 Jul 2019. To see the photos, please follow Instagram: @cesecamp2019 and Facebook: @NUSCESEcamp2019
Coming Events
Event Date
Annual Alumni Gathering 2019 (CVE and EVE)
12 Jul 2019 NUS Staff Club
Mentor Mentee sharing Session by Mr Tai Xu Hong (EVE graduate and DCC member)
Aug 2019
Sharing Session on “Environmental Management Systems“ by former CEE Part time lecturer Mr Marvin Lee, Director, EHS-APAC and EVE Alumni: Ms Patryce Ng, Assistant Manager and Safety Officer,Changi General Hospital and Mr Jasper Ng, Assistant Manager (Occupational Safety & Health), ESH Department, Omron Asia
Pacific Pte Ltd
Aug 2019
Annual Students and Alumni Dialogue Sessions Aug/Sep 2019
Graduate Certificate Presentation Ceremony for 47 graduands for various Graduate Certificate Programmes offered by the
department, including one in Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Design Technology, nd Technology for Environmental Sustainability. The ceremony will mark the third year of
successful graduation event for the programmes.
30 Jul 2019
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Significant Seminars/Talks hosted by the department Woh Hup Distinguished Lectures Prof Hitoshi Furuta, Department of Informatics, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, Woh Hup Visiting Professor, delivered a lecture on “Bridge Maintenance and New Technologies in Japan” on 18 Feb, 2019.
Prof Hitoshi Furuta receiving a plaque from Prof Quek Ser Tong
Prof Zdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor, WP Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University delivered a lecture on “Recent Advances in Creep, Hygrothermal Deformations and Size Effects in Concrete and Their Impact on Design” on 4 Apr 2019.
Prof Zdeněk P. Bažant receiving a plaque from Prof Quek Ser Tong
Prof Torgeir Moan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Former Keppel Chair Professor, NUS delivered a lecture on “Design and Analysis of Very Large Floating Bridges and Submerged Tunnels” on 18 Apr 2019.
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Prof Torgeir Moan receiving a plaque from Prof Quek Ser Tong
List of Seminars
Seminar Topic Speaker/s Date
CE3166/CE5509 Special Lecture on Design and Construction of
Iconic Structures Prof Richard Liew 14 Nov 2018
PLAXIS + tij Model A/Prof Harry Tan (NUS), Prof T. Nakai
(GRI), Prof H.M. Shahin (Islamic
University of Technology) and Mr H.
Takahashi (JIP)
21 Nov 2018
Resilience of Our Transportation Systems in an Intelligent and
Connected World Prof Elise Miller‐Hooks, Prof & Hazel
Chair in Infrastructure Engineering,
George Mason University
23 Nov 2018
Innovative Reuse of All Tyre Components in Concrete Prof Kypros Pilakoutas, University of
Sheffield, United Kingdom 26 Nov 2018
On the Degree of Nonlinearity Dr Norden E. Huang, Innovation Center
FIO, Center for Nonlinear Sciences,
QNLMST, Qingdao, China
6 Dec 2018
Geotechnical Centrifuge Modelling: Capturing Complexities to
Enable Analytical Solutions
Prof Michael Davies, University of Sussex, UK
12 Dec 2018
Waste management seminar / career talks on waste
management industries
Mr Dalson Chung, Director (Industry Development and Promotion) and Managing Director (CleanEnviro Summit Singapore), Mr Rio Goh,Co‐founder and Managing Director of Ministry Holdings Pte Ltd and Mr Thomas Wong,Co‐founder of Impetus Conceptus Pte Ltd.
29 Jan 2019
Bridge Maintenance and New Technologies in Japan Woh Hup Distiguished Lecture by Prof Hitoshi Furuta, Department of Informatics, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
18 Feb 2019
Structural Damage Assessment Using Artificial intelligence Woh Hup Visiting Prof by Prof Hitoshi Furuta, Department of Informatics, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
20 Feb 2019
Water Infrastructure and Virus Evolution A/Prof Daisuke Sano, Environmental Water Quality Engineering, Tohoku University
25 Feb2019
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Design rules for High Strength Steels and Special Shapes 4 Speakers:
Dr Ing Stefan Herion (CCTH in Karlsruhe)
Daniel Strotgen (Vallourec Deutschland GmbH)
Stephan Scherf (Vallourec Deutschland GmbH)
Dr Qian Xudong (NUS)
28 Feb 2019
Transforming the Construction Industry 9 Speakers from CEE:
ProfRichard Liew
Prof Lee Fook Hou
Prof David Chua Kim Huat
Prof Pang Sze Dai
Prof Yu Liya
Dr. Kong Kian Hau
Dr. Raymond Ong
Dr. Justin Yeoh
Dr. Chua Yie Sue
1 Mar 2019,
Managing Drone Swarms for Urban and Emergency Response
Operations
Prof Amelia Regan, Donald Bren School
of Information & Computer Sciences,
University of California at Irvine, USA
1 Mar 2019
Study on the small strain shear stiffness of granular material by discrete element modelling
Prof Xiaoqiang GU, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University
8 Mar 2019
Western Harbour Crossing – Hong Kong John Kenneth Mundy, Managing director of J. M. Project Management Services Pte Ltd
4 Apr 2019
Recent Advances in Creep, Hygrothermal Deformations and Size
Effects in Concrete and Their Impact on Design
Woh Hup Distiguished Lecture by McCormick Institute Professor, WP Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.
4 Apr 2019
Design and Analysis of Very Large Floating Bridges and Submerged Tunnels
Woh Hup Distiguished Lecture by Prof Torgeir Moan Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Former Keppel Chair Professor, NUS
18 Apr 2019
Structural Steel & Concrete Composite Research Group Annual Seminar
10 Speakers: Prof. Richard Liew Dr. Akshay Venkateshwaran Mr. Lai Binglin Dr Kai Wu Mr. Li Shan Mr. Yuichi Nishida Dr. Du Yong Dr. Padmaja Krishnan Mr. Dai Ziquan Mr. Gilbert Sebastiano
10 May 2019
STEAM – Platform of Transformation, Dynamically & Globally Evolving
Dr Lerwen LIU, Founding Director of STEAM, Senior Advisor, KMUTT, Bangkok
38 Speakers: 21 – NUS, 3 – A*STAR, 7‐ Industry & 7 – Other Universities
16 & 17 May 2019
Statistical Inference of Travel Demand: Integrating Sensor Data with Soft Information
Prof Yueyue Fan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis, USA
17 May 2019
Seminar on Challenges & Solutions of Large Marine Projects – (3 speakers) 1) “Challenges & Solutions of Hong Kong ‐ Zhuhai‐Macao
Mr Heng Liang, China Harbour Engineering Co., Ltd., A/Prof Ang Kok Keng, CEE Dept, NUS & Dr. Chen
23 May 2019
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Bridge (HZMB)” 2) “Design and Potential Applications of Floating Structures in Singapore” 3) “Ecological Protection Measurements for Dredging and Land Reclamation”
Songgui, Tianjin Research Institute for Water Transport Engineering, Ministry of Transport, China
Pavement Engineering Research Seminar – (2 speakers) 1) Design of Porous Asphalt Concrete: Issues and Lessons Learned 2) Evaluation of Pavement Temperature Profile in conjunction with a Real‐Time and Multi‐Layered Temperature Monitoring Station
Distinguished Prof Chen Jian‐Shiuh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan & Dr Su Yu‐Min, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
23 May 2019
Contaminants of emerging concern in mine water: treatment challenges in cold climate – (2 speakers)
By Carmen M. Neculita, Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME) & Lucie Coudert, University of Quebec in Abitibi‐Temiscamingue (UQAT)
11 Jun 2019
First seismic design code for Malaysia: Experience and lesson learnt
Dr Daniel Looi, Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak campus), Malaysia
25 June 2019
On the Very‐High Cycle Fatigue in Metallic Materials Prof Youshi Hong, LNM, Institute of Mechanics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
26 June 2019
Multiphase Flow in Granular Media: Considering Wettability and Disordered Microstructure
Dr Yixiang Gan, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia
27 June 2019
Ballistic performance of nacre‐like aluminium composite plates
Dr Luming Shen, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
9 Jul 2019
Taking a closer look at the importance of public transport ridership for commuters
Dr Subeh Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland
25 Jul 2019
An explicit time‐domain approach for random vibration of large complex structures
Prof Cheng Su, School of Civil Engineering and Transportation South China University of Technology
2 Aug 2019
Roles of Large‐Scale Structural Testing – As Lessons Learned from 1995 Kobe and 2011 Tohoku Earthquakes
Masayoshi Nakashima, Prof Emeritus at Kyoto University, Japan
7 Aug 2019
NUS‐LTA‐IES Closed Door Forum on Land Transport Masterplan 2040
3 Speakers: 1 – NUS, 1 – LTA & 1 ‐ IES
23 Sep 2019
Improving structural models of congestion Jonathan Hall, Assistant Prof, Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
6 Nov 2019
University Visits The visit by Yonsei University faculty and their post graduate students was held on 17 Jan 2019, hosted by Dr Ku TS and chaired by Prof Quek Ser Tong. Nankai University visited the department on 1 Jul 2019 comprising faculty and undergraduate students hosted by Prof Hu Jiangyong. Zhejiang University will be visiting the department on 17 july comprising a team of faculty, postgrardates and undergraduated, to be hosted by Prof Hu Jiangyong.
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University of Calgary International, Canada will be visiting the department on 14 Nov 2019, comprising a team of faculty and undergraduates, to be hosted by Dr Chew Soon Hoe. The University of Sydney (USyd)’s undergraduate students will be meeting with Prof Hu Jiangyong on 9 Dec 2019 to discuss on Water related issues. Outreach collaboration Ngee Ann Polytechnic colloborated with the department to share our programmes to their graduating students of Diploma in Environmental & Water Technology. On 26 June, Prof Valdan Babovic and Dr Bae Sung Woo delievered the talk at Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
Information sources A new Specialization in Digitalization of Urban Infrastructure will be offered to our undergraduate students in B Eng (Civil) and B Eng (Envirionmental Engineering) from Aug 2019 onwards. The flyer is appended below for your reference,
The department has launched a new look for our website at https://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/cee/ on 15 May 2019. You will also find our updates on events and news about our department at our instgram, youtube and facebook. So do follow us on our social media.
