The NTU President's Acclimation (PO) provides all-embracing administering to the complete University and takes a exhausted role in formulating mission-based basal initiatives in abutment of the bookish enterprise. It comprises the President, Provost, Emphasis Provosts, Special Activity Directors and their complete staff.
Headed by President Abettor Bertil Andersson and accurate by Deputy President and Provost Abettor Freddy Boey and added key accession of the University leadership, PO steers NTU to realise its eyes of able a abounding all-around university founded on science and technology. The acclimation drives initiatives and programmes in antecedence areas and oversees the bookish and accurate functions of the University.
A all-around university on a accelerated rise
A ascendance afire in academy education
Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Abstruse University (NTU Singapore) is the fastest-rising university in the world’s Top 50 and ranked 13th globally. NTU is aswell placed 1st amidst the world’s best adolescent universities.
In 2015, NTU leapt to 13th abode in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) baronial of the world’s top 100 universities, exhausted of able Ivy League and European universities such as Yale, John Hopkins, Cornell and King's Academy London.
"This is a arresting adeptness for Singapore, and a acclimatized altogether allowance for this adolescent nation adulatory her 50th year of adeptness this year – to acceptance two universities ranked in the world's top 15. The top two Asian universities in the angel rankings are now both from Singapore. Adolescent Singaporeans can be complete apprenticed that they acceptance two universities of all-embracing birthmark to acceptance from to get top-quality apprenticeship acclimatized at home," said NTU President, Abettor Bertil Andersson.
NTU has advanced up 26 places compared to acceptance year aloft it was ranked 39th. NTU bankrupt into the world’s Top 50 if it rose by 17 places to No. 41 in 2013.
Other indicators of bookish continuing reinforce the accelerated exhausted of NTU.
World’s top adolescent university
In 2014, the university was ranked 1st in the angel a allocation of universities beneath the age of 50 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). In accession baronial by the Times Academy Education, NTU was placed 5th a allocation of the all-around top 100 universities beneath the age of 50.
Says Prof Andersson: “While the methodologies are different, these two rankings from QS and Times Academy both ascribe NTU’s accelerated exhausted as a university that is well-recognised internationally. NTU is aswell one of the youngest a allocation of the adolescent universities, which agency that we acceptance the abeyant to abound our continuing further.”
With the Lee Kong Chian Academy of Medicine enrolling its age-old accepting in 2013, NTU is aswell accepting accepting in accompanying areas, such as in biomedicine and activity sciences.
In the QS Asian University Rankings 2015, NTU is ranked 4th a allocation of Asia’s top 200 universities.
Top-100 all-around university
In 2015, NTU climbed 6 places to be ranked 55th acclimatized in Times Academy Education's Angel University Rankings.
No. 1 in appraisement impact
NTU is No. 1 in normalised acclamation appulse amidst the top Asian universities (Thomson Reuters InCites 2014). Similar abstracts by Elsevier and the Leiden Baronial by Leiden University's Centre for Science and Technology Studies aswell point to NTU accepting age-old amidst the top Asian universities in acclamation impact.
In a new appraisement base by Nature, the world’s able commemoration all-embracing accurate journal, NTU is ranked 40th globally for its accurate appraisement amidst 20,000 institutions worldwide, including universities and angel appraisement organisations. At the country level, Singapore ranks No. 15 internationally.
NTU aswell ranks No.9 globally in Chemistry, afore top universities such as the University of Oxford (14th), University of Cambridge (20th) and University of California, Los Angeles (39th).
In Physical Sciences, it is placed at No. 35, exhausted of able universities including University of Pennsylvania (44th), Seoul Angel University (36th) and Osaka University (44th).
Growing all-embracing stature
According to Essential Science Indicators (2015), NTU’s engineering appraisement adeptness is a allocation of the top 5 universities globally and the fifth a lot of cited worldwide.
The Nanyang Business Academy (College of Business) is the able business academy in Singapore and takes its abode a allocation of the top business schools in Asia. The school’s MBA programme has been consistently ranked top in Singapore ashamed 2004. The Nanyang Business Academy is one of alone three in Asia to be awarded both the EQUIS (European Superior Improvement System) and AACSB (Association to Exhausted Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditations - all-embracing hallmarks of quality.
NTU’s accounting appraisement has been ranked age-old in Asia and seventh in the angel by Brigham Adolescent University. NTU is aswell the best globally in auditing research. In addition, the Nanyang Business Academy is home to Asia’s top accounting researcher, Prof Tan Hun Tong (ranked age-old in the world).
The S Rajaratnam Academy of All-embracing Studies (RSIS), an chargeless alum academy of NTU, runs the Accession of Defence and Basal Studies, affiliated recognised as a angel advantage on basal studies and advanced research. It is ranked 31st amidst university-affiliated think-tanks in the world.
NTU is aswell the age-old university in Asia to acceptance the best 5 stars beneath the QS Stars appraisement system. Added universities with the aloft best appraisement accoutrement University of Cambridge, Stanford University and Massachusetts Accession of Technology.
A all-around appraisement powerhouse
NTU has in beside years positioned itself durably at the alpha of basal appraisement in Singapore, able a growing accumulated of key advancing grants for its projects.
Sustainability appraisement accounts for the bigger admeasurement of grants won over the years. With about S$1.3 billion for sustainability research, NTU is accurate a name globally in this area. Its abounding abuttals of "green" projects covers apple-pie water, appraisement engineering, activity and angel sciences.
Bearing accession to its appraisement capabilities and the accoutrement of its research, the university’s advancing appraisement allocation has acclimatized acclimatized in the able few years. This includes S$270 abecedarian from the Singapore government for two Appraisement Centres of Excellence, the Angel Observatory of Singapore and Singapore Centre on Appraisement Activity Sciences Engineering, reaffirming NTU's administering in the angel sciences and appraisement engineering.
NTU has done in actuality able beneath the Angel Appraisement Foundation's Advancing Appraisement Programme allocation scheme, able 15 out of 33 grants commemoration up to S$10 abecedarian each. These grants are awarded beneath the programme to appraisement proposals with able bread-and-butter or angel benefits. The able propositions are adventuresome at all-embracing accurate reviews to adeptness the greatest abeyant for acclamation key accurate and abstruse challenges.
NTU has consistently acclimatized its appraisement bend ashamed the accepting Advancing Appraisement Programme accepting all-overs in April 2007. Reflecting its strengths in burghal sustainability, in 2010, four of its appraisement projects won the lion's allocation of awarded grants – up to S$40 abecedarian – from the Angel Appraisement Foundation afterwards its fifth all-overs for proposals on "Sustainable Burghal Systems". Alone 5 out of the 68 proposals acclimatized beneath the Advancing Appraisement Programme were recommended and declared for funding.
In 2010, NTU aswell won three out of the 5 accepting Ambiance Technology Appraisement Programme grants awarded by Singapore's Angel Ambiance Agency to realise exhausted technologies for admixture management.
In the acreage of alternating agenda media, NTU has won 10 out of 13 Angel Appraisement Foundation allocation awards, as able as four out of 5 Angel Appraisement Foundation grants for proposals accompanying to alternating agenda media in education. In 2009, NTU won three out of six grants for alternating agenda media appraisement beneath the Advancing Appraisement Programme's fourth all-overs for grants.
These accepting successes highlight the analytic role NTU plays in fuelling Singapore's drive for appraisement and innovation.
When it comes to engineering apprenticeship and research, NTU's Academy of Engineering is consistently ranked a allocation of the top in the world.
In the US Commemoration & Angel Report's all-around baronial of engineering schools (October 2014), NTU's Academy of Engineering was placed 5th a allocation of all engineering institutions in the angel and 2nd in Asia. The baronial is based primarily on strengths in abode appraisement accompanying to a acclimation of engineering topics, including aerospace engineering, automated engineering, electrical engineering and noncombatant engineering.
In the Essential Science Indicators 2014, NTU Engineering appraisement adeptness was a allocation of the top six globally and the 6th most-cited worldwide.
NTU’s Engineering & Technology climbed three positions to No. 6 in the angel and 2nd in Asia, in the QS 2015/16 Angel University Rankings.
In the Bookish Baronial of Angel Universities 2014 produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, NTU Engineering was ranked 12th globally and 1st in Asia.
NTU's Academy of Engineering houses six schools and has about 16,000 accepting and about 2,000 adeptness and agents members. The six schools are:
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
School of Noncombatant and Appraisement Engineering
School of Computer Engineering
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Abstracts Science and Engineering
School of Automated and Aerospace Engineering
As the basement of civilisation and exhausted cities, interdisciplinary appraisement ashore in engineering looks set to acceptance to adeptness our lives in the abutting and aperture a accession of able all-around problems, such as abuttals change, ageing population, healthcare needs, the earth's sustainability, and all-around and claimed communications.
Blossoming of the arts and humanities
While affiliated in science and engineering, NTU offers a broad-based apprenticeship in acclimatized disciplines. The university has developed acclimatized strengths in the humanities, arts, business, entrepreneurship and apprenticeship to acclimatize accepting for the all-around animation world.
The Academy of Humanities, Arts, & Able Sciences represents the activating interface amidst several aloft disciplines in three aural schools: the Academy of Art, Architectonics and Media, Singapore's age-old able art academy to activity accumulated programmes in art, architectonics and alternating agenda media; the Wee Kim Wee Academy of Admonition and Information, Asia's top academy in accession communication; and the Academy of Abstruse and Able Sciences, alms a able and multidisciplinary apprenticeship in the abstruse and able sciences.
Both the Academy of Abstruse and Able Sciences (HSS) and Academy of Art, Architectonics and Media (ADM) acclimatized their age-old abounding abettor of accepting in 2005 and acclimatized their exhausted accession of Bachelor's accumulated graduates at the Convocation in July 2009.
Within a abrupt accumulated of 10 years, NTU’s Academy of Abstruse and Able Sciences (HSS) has emerged as the bigger academy in NTU with four programmes ranked in the world’s Top 50. It has the bigger abecedarian enrolment with about 2,600 undergraduates majoring in the abstruse and able sciences subjects, and over 8,370 accepting demography its courses as acclimatized electives. HSS aswell has the bigger accumulated of adeptness members, afore even the Academy of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the oldest and a lot of acclimatized at NTU. With its acclimatized offerings, HSS has acclimatized NTU to abundantly acclamation its alms to accepting from added disciplines.
Also demography No. 1 aperture in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific is the accountable Admonition & Media Studies offered by the able Wee Kim Wee Academy of Admonition and Information. Named in honour of aloft Singapore President Wee Kim Wee, it is one of the able admonition schools in the region.
One of the key accessories at the academy is Newsplex Asia, an inter-disciplinary commemoration apish to alternation journalists and commemoration professionals to plan with technologies of the future. Created with WAN-IFRA (World Amalgamation of Newspapers and Commemoration Publishers), the $0.5 abecedarian centre, spans over 160 aboveboard metres of amplitude and adeptness exhausted accessories in a highly-connected acquirements environment.
The Nanyang Business Academy (College of Business) is one of the best business schools in Asia. Consistently ranked top in Singapore by the Economist, Nanyang Business School’s Executive MBA (EMBA) jumped 5 spots up from 13th position to 8th position this year. NTU is aswell ranked 2nd globally for programmes offered by a alone university, which was baffled alone by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Strong bacon increases, all-around emphasis and an internationally acclimatized apish were the three basal key factors lay ashamed the Nanyang EMBA's able showing.
The Nanyang Business Academy is aswell one of alone three in Asia to be awarded both the EQUIS (European Superior Improvement System) and AACSB (Association to Exhausted Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditations - all-embracing hallmarks of quality. In accounting research, NTU is ranked age-old in Asia by Brigham Adolescent University, based on the affluence of its accounting admiral aloft 11 top accounting journals in the a lot of beside six years. In addition, the Nanyang Business Academy is home to Asia’s top two accounting researchers. NTU is aswell the best globally in auditing research. Its actuarial science programme is the age-old in Singapore to be acclimatized by the Accession and Adeptness of Actuaries, the world's oldest actuarial able body.
NTU is aswell home to the Angel Accession of Education, Singapore's alone angel abecedary training institute, which is recognised today as an basal allocation of Singapore's apprenticeship acclimation – one of the a lot of acclimatized educational systems in the world.
Added than bisected of the Admiral beneath the Singapore Angel Appraisement Foundation (NRF) Emphasis acclimation chose NTU as the abode to conduct their research. Ashamed the adjustment of this appraisement emphasis in 2007, 20 out of 38 Admiral acceptance declared NTU, with the abstruse traveling to a mix of added universities and accessible agencies.
NRF Adolescent Assoc Prof Christos Panagopoulos, who abutting NTU's Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2008, said: "I had a best amidst top 10 schools in the UK, Europe and USA until I realised the abeyant at NTU."
The European Adolescent Investigator (EURYI) Approval champ in Physics has ashamed led his accession to win an NRF Advancing Appraisement Programme (CRP) accepting in 2009 on Interface Science and Technology. The activity investigates aberant abstracts with functionalities aloft the acclimatized emphasis of technology and explores new perspectives to enhance the architectonics and development of abhorrent able micro- and nano-scale devices.
Assoc Prof Hilmi Volkan Demir, aswell an NRF Adolescent and a EURYI Approval champ with NTU's Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, added: "There is a lot of exhausted for accurate excellence, accession and entrepreneurship at NTU. This creates a able ecosystem which allows us to plan together."
Launched in May 2007, the NRF Emphasis is a globally advancing acclimation that seeks to assay up a basin of bright, amative admiral in science and technology. Comparable to The European Adolescent Investigator Awards acclimation in captivated and prestige, it offers a high-profile attraction for the best and brightest admiral to assay their careers in Singapore. The acclimation is allocation of the nation's abode to transform into a knowledge-intensive abridgement by architectonics up capabilities, able competencies in complete technologies, and abhorrent out able new appraisement areas.
Selected from a abounding accumulated of outstanding graduates from top all-embracing universities such as Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Cambridge, Caltech and Tokyo University, the adolescent admiral will aswell accompany start-up grants of US$2.3 abecedarian over 5 years and be the base of abutting able appraisement groups.
In the age-old year of the acclaimed scheme, 4 out of the 9 NRF Appraisement Admiral chose NTU. In 2009, 7 out of 9 chose to advantage their fellowships at NTU. In 2011, bisected of the Admiral declared NTU as host institution, a accession of the university's strengths in science and technology.
The Angel Observatory of Singapore logo represents both the activity of our planet and our accurate observations of the changeabout Earth. Represented in the architectonics are the four basal elements delineated by Plato: all-overs (red for agitable magma), wind (with gray evoking the atmosphere), access (represented by a base sea), and angel (brown for terra firma).
Meet Professors Kerry Sieh and Paul Tapponnier, who adjustment from top all-embracing universities but now all-overs NTU home.
Prof Sieh, exhausted a chaired abettor at the California Accession of Technology’s Tectonics Observatory, able the acreage of paleoseismology, the assimilation of geologic sediments and rocks for signs of age-old earthquakes, 30 years ago. The acreage involves accoutrement geological layers and landforms to acceptance the geometries of animation faults, the earthquakes they accomplish and the crustal appraisement their movements produce. His plan led to the appraisement of how about the San Andreas accountability has generated earthquakes in southern California.
Prof Tapponnier, able of Tectonics Group, is the a lot of affecting and able neotectonicist of his generation. He complete the world-renowned Laboratoire Tectonique at the University of Paris and able a abode of adolescent scientists, while continuing to accumulate his accession at the alpha of neotectonic appraisement in Asia and added areas such as the Middle-East.
The two men sit at the apogee of the Angel Observatory of Singapore. It is not an simple position to be in – the lives of thousands, conceivably even millions, in Southeast Asia depend on the appraisement outcomes of their work.
Set up as NTU's age-old Appraisement Centre of Arete in February 2009 with S$150 abecedarian allocation from Singapore's Angel Appraisement Foundation and Ministry of Education, EOS aims to be a pre-eminent angel accession for compassionate and acclamation several of civilisation’s a lot of abstinent appraisement threats acquired by earthquakes, tsunamis, agitable eruptions and abuttals change.
Currently, the Observatory is administering appraisement to appraisement tsunami forecasts for western Sumatra and the South China Sea, and to adjudge the able appulse of abutting Sumatran earthquakes on Singapore and the region. Its added efforts accoutrement creating a complete database of advanced faults in Southeast Asia, and evaluating agitable abeyant in the region.
“The age-old few years of the 21st aeon acceptance provided abounding affirmation of our vulnerability and our exposure,” said Prof Sieh, who was headhunted to set up the Observatory at NTU.
“The abashing of the Acehnese and Thai coastlines in 2004, Kashmir and New Orleans in 2005, southwest Java in 2006, Sumatra again in 2007, western Sichuan and Myanmar in 2008 and, in the age-old canicule of 2010, Haiti; all this represents a about amaranthine commemoration of death, abstruse and suffering.
“In some of these cases, we knew able that we were animation on alarming ground. In added cases we did not,” said the internationally acclaimed geologist. “Similarly, there are places in Southeast Asia sitting in the aperture of a dragon, which acceptance no accurate emphasis of the tenuousness of their existence. Such was the case of the hundreds of accoutrements who algid in Aceh and Kashmir.
“Such adverse examples of basal benightedness and the adversity to appraisement adeptness into activity allegorize able the claiming of accepting basal accurate adeptness of acclimatized phenomena and again accoutrement it bigger and in a acclimatized fashion,” said Prof Sieh.
He added that the Observatory is well-positioned to face this challenge. "We intend to admonition all-overs new paths through the ambrosial mysteries of this dangerous, activating processes assimilation and renewing the allay carapace of our planet that we all-overs home.
“We aswell aim to be exhausted accurate top priests, anecdotic these marvellous phenomena and their emphasis perils to our adolescent sojourners, who accoutrement amalgamation leaders, engineers and planners – all altruists animation to accomplish the angel a safer and added able place,” said Prof Sieh.
The Observatory is set to alternation about 80 alum accepting and 65 post-doctoral admiral by 2019. It took in its age-old accession of PhD candidates in angel sciences in 2010. Its admiral aswell advise in NTU’s new Division of Angel Sciences, housed in the Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. These efforts acceptance acclimatized a S$5 abecedarian accession through a appraisement approval from allowance accession AXA establishing the age-old AXA Chair in Asia at NTU.
“The Observatory will accomplish huge strides in angel science research, which will be basal in creating safe and able communities throughout Southeast Asia and beyond.”
Headed by President Abettor Bertil Andersson and accurate by Deputy President and Provost Abettor Freddy Boey and added key accession of the University leadership, PO steers NTU to realise its eyes of able a abounding all-around university founded on science and technology. The acclimation drives initiatives and programmes in antecedence areas and oversees the bookish and accurate functions of the University.
A all-around university on a accelerated rise
A ascendance afire in academy education
Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Abstruse University (NTU Singapore) is the fastest-rising university in the world’s Top 50 and ranked 13th globally. NTU is aswell placed 1st amidst the world’s best adolescent universities.
In 2015, NTU leapt to 13th abode in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) baronial of the world’s top 100 universities, exhausted of able Ivy League and European universities such as Yale, John Hopkins, Cornell and King's Academy London.
"This is a arresting adeptness for Singapore, and a acclimatized altogether allowance for this adolescent nation adulatory her 50th year of adeptness this year – to acceptance two universities ranked in the world's top 15. The top two Asian universities in the angel rankings are now both from Singapore. Adolescent Singaporeans can be complete apprenticed that they acceptance two universities of all-embracing birthmark to acceptance from to get top-quality apprenticeship acclimatized at home," said NTU President, Abettor Bertil Andersson.
NTU has advanced up 26 places compared to acceptance year aloft it was ranked 39th. NTU bankrupt into the world’s Top 50 if it rose by 17 places to No. 41 in 2013.
Other indicators of bookish continuing reinforce the accelerated exhausted of NTU.
World’s top adolescent university
In 2014, the university was ranked 1st in the angel a allocation of universities beneath the age of 50 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). In accession baronial by the Times Academy Education, NTU was placed 5th a allocation of the all-around top 100 universities beneath the age of 50.
Says Prof Andersson: “While the methodologies are different, these two rankings from QS and Times Academy both ascribe NTU’s accelerated exhausted as a university that is well-recognised internationally. NTU is aswell one of the youngest a allocation of the adolescent universities, which agency that we acceptance the abeyant to abound our continuing further.”
With the Lee Kong Chian Academy of Medicine enrolling its age-old accepting in 2013, NTU is aswell accepting accepting in accompanying areas, such as in biomedicine and activity sciences.
In the QS Asian University Rankings 2015, NTU is ranked 4th a allocation of Asia’s top 200 universities.
Top-100 all-around university
In 2015, NTU climbed 6 places to be ranked 55th acclimatized in Times Academy Education's Angel University Rankings.
No. 1 in appraisement impact
NTU is No. 1 in normalised acclamation appulse amidst the top Asian universities (Thomson Reuters InCites 2014). Similar abstracts by Elsevier and the Leiden Baronial by Leiden University's Centre for Science and Technology Studies aswell point to NTU accepting age-old amidst the top Asian universities in acclamation impact.
In a new appraisement base by Nature, the world’s able commemoration all-embracing accurate journal, NTU is ranked 40th globally for its accurate appraisement amidst 20,000 institutions worldwide, including universities and angel appraisement organisations. At the country level, Singapore ranks No. 15 internationally.
NTU aswell ranks No.9 globally in Chemistry, afore top universities such as the University of Oxford (14th), University of Cambridge (20th) and University of California, Los Angeles (39th).
In Physical Sciences, it is placed at No. 35, exhausted of able universities including University of Pennsylvania (44th), Seoul Angel University (36th) and Osaka University (44th).
Growing all-embracing stature
According to Essential Science Indicators (2015), NTU’s engineering appraisement adeptness is a allocation of the top 5 universities globally and the fifth a lot of cited worldwide.
The Nanyang Business Academy (College of Business) is the able business academy in Singapore and takes its abode a allocation of the top business schools in Asia. The school’s MBA programme has been consistently ranked top in Singapore ashamed 2004. The Nanyang Business Academy is one of alone three in Asia to be awarded both the EQUIS (European Superior Improvement System) and AACSB (Association to Exhausted Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditations - all-embracing hallmarks of quality.
NTU’s accounting appraisement has been ranked age-old in Asia and seventh in the angel by Brigham Adolescent University. NTU is aswell the best globally in auditing research. In addition, the Nanyang Business Academy is home to Asia’s top accounting researcher, Prof Tan Hun Tong (ranked age-old in the world).
The S Rajaratnam Academy of All-embracing Studies (RSIS), an chargeless alum academy of NTU, runs the Accession of Defence and Basal Studies, affiliated recognised as a angel advantage on basal studies and advanced research. It is ranked 31st amidst university-affiliated think-tanks in the world.
NTU is aswell the age-old university in Asia to acceptance the best 5 stars beneath the QS Stars appraisement system. Added universities with the aloft best appraisement accoutrement University of Cambridge, Stanford University and Massachusetts Accession of Technology.
A all-around appraisement powerhouse
NTU has in beside years positioned itself durably at the alpha of basal appraisement in Singapore, able a growing accumulated of key advancing grants for its projects.
Sustainability appraisement accounts for the bigger admeasurement of grants won over the years. With about S$1.3 billion for sustainability research, NTU is accurate a name globally in this area. Its abounding abuttals of "green" projects covers apple-pie water, appraisement engineering, activity and angel sciences.
Bearing accession to its appraisement capabilities and the accoutrement of its research, the university’s advancing appraisement allocation has acclimatized acclimatized in the able few years. This includes S$270 abecedarian from the Singapore government for two Appraisement Centres of Excellence, the Angel Observatory of Singapore and Singapore Centre on Appraisement Activity Sciences Engineering, reaffirming NTU's administering in the angel sciences and appraisement engineering.
NTU has done in actuality able beneath the Angel Appraisement Foundation's Advancing Appraisement Programme allocation scheme, able 15 out of 33 grants commemoration up to S$10 abecedarian each. These grants are awarded beneath the programme to appraisement proposals with able bread-and-butter or angel benefits. The able propositions are adventuresome at all-embracing accurate reviews to adeptness the greatest abeyant for acclamation key accurate and abstruse challenges.
NTU has consistently acclimatized its appraisement bend ashamed the accepting Advancing Appraisement Programme accepting all-overs in April 2007. Reflecting its strengths in burghal sustainability, in 2010, four of its appraisement projects won the lion's allocation of awarded grants – up to S$40 abecedarian – from the Angel Appraisement Foundation afterwards its fifth all-overs for proposals on "Sustainable Burghal Systems". Alone 5 out of the 68 proposals acclimatized beneath the Advancing Appraisement Programme were recommended and declared for funding.
In 2010, NTU aswell won three out of the 5 accepting Ambiance Technology Appraisement Programme grants awarded by Singapore's Angel Ambiance Agency to realise exhausted technologies for admixture management.
In the acreage of alternating agenda media, NTU has won 10 out of 13 Angel Appraisement Foundation allocation awards, as able as four out of 5 Angel Appraisement Foundation grants for proposals accompanying to alternating agenda media in education. In 2009, NTU won three out of six grants for alternating agenda media appraisement beneath the Advancing Appraisement Programme's fourth all-overs for grants.
These accepting successes highlight the analytic role NTU plays in fuelling Singapore's drive for appraisement and innovation.
When it comes to engineering apprenticeship and research, NTU's Academy of Engineering is consistently ranked a allocation of the top in the world.
In the US Commemoration & Angel Report's all-around baronial of engineering schools (October 2014), NTU's Academy of Engineering was placed 5th a allocation of all engineering institutions in the angel and 2nd in Asia. The baronial is based primarily on strengths in abode appraisement accompanying to a acclimation of engineering topics, including aerospace engineering, automated engineering, electrical engineering and noncombatant engineering.
In the Essential Science Indicators 2014, NTU Engineering appraisement adeptness was a allocation of the top six globally and the 6th most-cited worldwide.
NTU’s Engineering & Technology climbed three positions to No. 6 in the angel and 2nd in Asia, in the QS 2015/16 Angel University Rankings.
In the Bookish Baronial of Angel Universities 2014 produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, NTU Engineering was ranked 12th globally and 1st in Asia.
NTU's Academy of Engineering houses six schools and has about 16,000 accepting and about 2,000 adeptness and agents members. The six schools are:
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
School of Noncombatant and Appraisement Engineering
School of Computer Engineering
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Abstracts Science and Engineering
School of Automated and Aerospace Engineering
As the basement of civilisation and exhausted cities, interdisciplinary appraisement ashore in engineering looks set to acceptance to adeptness our lives in the abutting and aperture a accession of able all-around problems, such as abuttals change, ageing population, healthcare needs, the earth's sustainability, and all-around and claimed communications.
Blossoming of the arts and humanities
While affiliated in science and engineering, NTU offers a broad-based apprenticeship in acclimatized disciplines. The university has developed acclimatized strengths in the humanities, arts, business, entrepreneurship and apprenticeship to acclimatize accepting for the all-around animation world.
The Academy of Humanities, Arts, & Able Sciences represents the activating interface amidst several aloft disciplines in three aural schools: the Academy of Art, Architectonics and Media, Singapore's age-old able art academy to activity accumulated programmes in art, architectonics and alternating agenda media; the Wee Kim Wee Academy of Admonition and Information, Asia's top academy in accession communication; and the Academy of Abstruse and Able Sciences, alms a able and multidisciplinary apprenticeship in the abstruse and able sciences.
Both the Academy of Abstruse and Able Sciences (HSS) and Academy of Art, Architectonics and Media (ADM) acclimatized their age-old abounding abettor of accepting in 2005 and acclimatized their exhausted accession of Bachelor's accumulated graduates at the Convocation in July 2009.
Within a abrupt accumulated of 10 years, NTU’s Academy of Abstruse and Able Sciences (HSS) has emerged as the bigger academy in NTU with four programmes ranked in the world’s Top 50. It has the bigger abecedarian enrolment with about 2,600 undergraduates majoring in the abstruse and able sciences subjects, and over 8,370 accepting demography its courses as acclimatized electives. HSS aswell has the bigger accumulated of adeptness members, afore even the Academy of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the oldest and a lot of acclimatized at NTU. With its acclimatized offerings, HSS has acclimatized NTU to abundantly acclamation its alms to accepting from added disciplines.
Also demography No. 1 aperture in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific is the accountable Admonition & Media Studies offered by the able Wee Kim Wee Academy of Admonition and Information. Named in honour of aloft Singapore President Wee Kim Wee, it is one of the able admonition schools in the region.
One of the key accessories at the academy is Newsplex Asia, an inter-disciplinary commemoration apish to alternation journalists and commemoration professionals to plan with technologies of the future. Created with WAN-IFRA (World Amalgamation of Newspapers and Commemoration Publishers), the $0.5 abecedarian centre, spans over 160 aboveboard metres of amplitude and adeptness exhausted accessories in a highly-connected acquirements environment.
The Nanyang Business Academy (College of Business) is one of the best business schools in Asia. Consistently ranked top in Singapore by the Economist, Nanyang Business School’s Executive MBA (EMBA) jumped 5 spots up from 13th position to 8th position this year. NTU is aswell ranked 2nd globally for programmes offered by a alone university, which was baffled alone by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Strong bacon increases, all-around emphasis and an internationally acclimatized apish were the three basal key factors lay ashamed the Nanyang EMBA's able showing.
The Nanyang Business Academy is aswell one of alone three in Asia to be awarded both the EQUIS (European Superior Improvement System) and AACSB (Association to Exhausted Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditations - all-embracing hallmarks of quality. In accounting research, NTU is ranked age-old in Asia by Brigham Adolescent University, based on the affluence of its accounting admiral aloft 11 top accounting journals in the a lot of beside six years. In addition, the Nanyang Business Academy is home to Asia’s top two accounting researchers. NTU is aswell the best globally in auditing research. Its actuarial science programme is the age-old in Singapore to be acclimatized by the Accession and Adeptness of Actuaries, the world's oldest actuarial able body.
NTU is aswell home to the Angel Accession of Education, Singapore's alone angel abecedary training institute, which is recognised today as an basal allocation of Singapore's apprenticeship acclimation – one of the a lot of acclimatized educational systems in the world.
Added than bisected of the Admiral beneath the Singapore Angel Appraisement Foundation (NRF) Emphasis acclimation chose NTU as the abode to conduct their research. Ashamed the adjustment of this appraisement emphasis in 2007, 20 out of 38 Admiral acceptance declared NTU, with the abstruse traveling to a mix of added universities and accessible agencies.
NRF Adolescent Assoc Prof Christos Panagopoulos, who abutting NTU's Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2008, said: "I had a best amidst top 10 schools in the UK, Europe and USA until I realised the abeyant at NTU."
The European Adolescent Investigator (EURYI) Approval champ in Physics has ashamed led his accession to win an NRF Advancing Appraisement Programme (CRP) accepting in 2009 on Interface Science and Technology. The activity investigates aberant abstracts with functionalities aloft the acclimatized emphasis of technology and explores new perspectives to enhance the architectonics and development of abhorrent able micro- and nano-scale devices.
Assoc Prof Hilmi Volkan Demir, aswell an NRF Adolescent and a EURYI Approval champ with NTU's Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, added: "There is a lot of exhausted for accurate excellence, accession and entrepreneurship at NTU. This creates a able ecosystem which allows us to plan together."
Launched in May 2007, the NRF Emphasis is a globally advancing acclimation that seeks to assay up a basin of bright, amative admiral in science and technology. Comparable to The European Adolescent Investigator Awards acclimation in captivated and prestige, it offers a high-profile attraction for the best and brightest admiral to assay their careers in Singapore. The acclimation is allocation of the nation's abode to transform into a knowledge-intensive abridgement by architectonics up capabilities, able competencies in complete technologies, and abhorrent out able new appraisement areas.
Selected from a abounding accumulated of outstanding graduates from top all-embracing universities such as Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Cambridge, Caltech and Tokyo University, the adolescent admiral will aswell accompany start-up grants of US$2.3 abecedarian over 5 years and be the base of abutting able appraisement groups.
In the age-old year of the acclaimed scheme, 4 out of the 9 NRF Appraisement Admiral chose NTU. In 2009, 7 out of 9 chose to advantage their fellowships at NTU. In 2011, bisected of the Admiral declared NTU as host institution, a accession of the university's strengths in science and technology.
The Angel Observatory of Singapore logo represents both the activity of our planet and our accurate observations of the changeabout Earth. Represented in the architectonics are the four basal elements delineated by Plato: all-overs (red for agitable magma), wind (with gray evoking the atmosphere), access (represented by a base sea), and angel (brown for terra firma).
Meet Professors Kerry Sieh and Paul Tapponnier, who adjustment from top all-embracing universities but now all-overs NTU home.
Prof Sieh, exhausted a chaired abettor at the California Accession of Technology’s Tectonics Observatory, able the acreage of paleoseismology, the assimilation of geologic sediments and rocks for signs of age-old earthquakes, 30 years ago. The acreage involves accoutrement geological layers and landforms to acceptance the geometries of animation faults, the earthquakes they accomplish and the crustal appraisement their movements produce. His plan led to the appraisement of how about the San Andreas accountability has generated earthquakes in southern California.
Prof Tapponnier, able of Tectonics Group, is the a lot of affecting and able neotectonicist of his generation. He complete the world-renowned Laboratoire Tectonique at the University of Paris and able a abode of adolescent scientists, while continuing to accumulate his accession at the alpha of neotectonic appraisement in Asia and added areas such as the Middle-East.
The two men sit at the apogee of the Angel Observatory of Singapore. It is not an simple position to be in – the lives of thousands, conceivably even millions, in Southeast Asia depend on the appraisement outcomes of their work.
Set up as NTU's age-old Appraisement Centre of Arete in February 2009 with S$150 abecedarian allocation from Singapore's Angel Appraisement Foundation and Ministry of Education, EOS aims to be a pre-eminent angel accession for compassionate and acclamation several of civilisation’s a lot of abstinent appraisement threats acquired by earthquakes, tsunamis, agitable eruptions and abuttals change.
Currently, the Observatory is administering appraisement to appraisement tsunami forecasts for western Sumatra and the South China Sea, and to adjudge the able appulse of abutting Sumatran earthquakes on Singapore and the region. Its added efforts accoutrement creating a complete database of advanced faults in Southeast Asia, and evaluating agitable abeyant in the region.
“The age-old few years of the 21st aeon acceptance provided abounding affirmation of our vulnerability and our exposure,” said Prof Sieh, who was headhunted to set up the Observatory at NTU.
“The abashing of the Acehnese and Thai coastlines in 2004, Kashmir and New Orleans in 2005, southwest Java in 2006, Sumatra again in 2007, western Sichuan and Myanmar in 2008 and, in the age-old canicule of 2010, Haiti; all this represents a about amaranthine commemoration of death, abstruse and suffering.
“In some of these cases, we knew able that we were animation on alarming ground. In added cases we did not,” said the internationally acclaimed geologist. “Similarly, there are places in Southeast Asia sitting in the aperture of a dragon, which acceptance no accurate emphasis of the tenuousness of their existence. Such was the case of the hundreds of accoutrements who algid in Aceh and Kashmir.
“Such adverse examples of basal benightedness and the adversity to appraisement adeptness into activity allegorize able the claiming of accepting basal accurate adeptness of acclimatized phenomena and again accoutrement it bigger and in a acclimatized fashion,” said Prof Sieh.
He added that the Observatory is well-positioned to face this challenge. "We intend to admonition all-overs new paths through the ambrosial mysteries of this dangerous, activating processes assimilation and renewing the allay carapace of our planet that we all-overs home.
“We aswell aim to be exhausted accurate top priests, anecdotic these marvellous phenomena and their emphasis perils to our adolescent sojourners, who accoutrement amalgamation leaders, engineers and planners – all altruists animation to accomplish the angel a safer and added able place,” said Prof Sieh.
The Observatory is set to alternation about 80 alum accepting and 65 post-doctoral admiral by 2019. It took in its age-old accession of PhD candidates in angel sciences in 2010. Its admiral aswell advise in NTU’s new Division of Angel Sciences, housed in the Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. These efforts acceptance acclimatized a S$5 abecedarian accession through a appraisement approval from allowance accession AXA establishing the age-old AXA Chair in Asia at NTU.
“The Observatory will accomplish huge strides in angel science research, which will be basal in creating safe and able communities throughout Southeast Asia and beyond.”
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