Awards and Honors

• Assistant Professor Liu Bin's research on polymer chemistry and the application of polymers in biosensors and solar cells wins highest recognition in the form of a National Science and Technology Award (Young Scientist Award 2008)

• Prof. Neal Chung appointed to Adjunct Chair Professorship by Taiwan's Chung Yuan Christian University

• Best Methodology/Theory Paper Award (2005-2008) from the Journal of Process Control for Dr. Rudi Gunawan

• Undergraduate student Ms Niti Sinha’s paper titled “Enhancing the functionality of Novel Regulatory Controller Stimulation & Optimization” wins the IES Publication Awards Committee cash prize of $300. This work was the outcome of her Final Year Project supervised by Dr. Laksh

• PhD student Yeong Sai Hooi (supervised by A/P. M.P. Srinivasan) has won the best student paper award at the 17^th International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology (IIT-2008) at Monterey, California, held between 8-13 June, 2008

• Chemical Engineering Science Most Cited Paper 2003-2006 Award (Prof. Wang H.C.)

  Chemical Engineering Science Most Cited Paper 2003-2006 Award (Prof.Feng S.S.)

• Department's undergraduate students showcase their research prowess at the ChBE Final Year Project Poster Presentation cum Annual Alumni Lecture 2007

• ChBE Students (Lin Mingui and Alfred Zheng Minghan) excel at the Shell Gourami Business Challenge

• Dr. Liu Bin wins an NUS Young Investigator Award

• PhD Student Jiang Lanying wins the 2005 North American Membrane Society Student Award

• PhD student Rao Raghuraj (Supervisor: Dr. Lakshminarayanan Samavedham) wins the Best Poster Award at the Joint 3rd AOHUPO and 4th Structural Biology and Functional Genomics Conference, Singapore, 2006

• Dr. Lakshminarayanan and co-workers win the Best Paper Award in the category: Advances in Process Control at CHEMCON 2005, New Delhi, India.

• Prof. Miranda Yap to head A*STAR Graduate Academy

• Prof. Raj Srinivasan and co-workers win Best paper Award at IEEE's INDIN Conference

• Asst Prof Lakshminarayanan Samavedham: a winner of the Outstanding Educator Award 2006

• Our team of PROBERS won SITP Silver Award (Mdm Tay Yak Keng, Mdm Teo Ai Peng, Mr Boey Kok Hong and Mdm Sandy Khoh)

• Top Honor: Prof. Miranda Yap named to the US National Academy of Engineering

• Winner of the 2005 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Award - Ms Woo Xing Yi

• Winner of the 2006 AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical, and Bioengineering Division Graduate Student Award - Ms Woo Xing Yi

Research Highlights

• A/P Feng Si Shen: Fighting cancer in the "nano" way

• A/P Ting Yen Peng: Treating wastes the green way

• A/P Kawi: High performance nano catalysts for producing clean fuel

• Dr Yang Kun-Lin: Sniffing out dangerous chemical agents

• A/P Feng Si-Shen: Fighting cancer at its earliest stage

• Prof. Zeng Hua Chun's recent research highlighted by the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Announcements

Research Collaborations

• ChBE-Eurochem Technologies Sign Research Collaboration

• NUS-Hyflux Ltd Research Collaboration

Joint Degree Programmes

• NUS-UIUC Joint PhD Programme In Chemical Engineering

• SMA-2 (CPE)

New Educational Programmes

• New Nanotechnology Programme Launched

General News

• NEW ChBE FACULTY MEMBERS

• Mr Edwin Khew, ChBE DCC Member, Appointed as a Nominated Member of Parliament

• Department's undergraduate students showcase their research prowess at the ChBE Final Year Project Poster Presentation cum Annual Alumni Lecture 2007