Prof Philip Liu received an Honorary Professorship at

Tsinghua University in China.

Assoc Prof Ernest Chua (fourth left) and his team
received the award from Mr Heng Chee How (third
right), Senior Minister of State for Defence.
(photo credit: IES)

Prof Chow Yean Khow and Adj Prof Aziz Merchant

(Keppel) and the Keppel-NUS Corporate Laboratory
team received the award from Mr Heng Chee How.
(photo credit: IES)

Asst Prof Tan Swee Ching (second left) and PhD

student Sai Kishore Ravi (second right) received the
award from Mr Heng Chee How. (photo credit: IES)
A team of NUS Mechanical Engineering researchers found a way to turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight PET
aerogels that are suitable for various applications, including heat insulation and carbon dioxide absorption. From left:
Research Engineer Khac Duyen Le, final-year undergraduate student Ryan Leung Hoe Inn, Prof Nhan Phan-Thien,
Assoc Prof Hai Minh Duong, and Dr Xiwen Zhang, SIMTech, A*STAR.