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Our Students’ Performance in
from Annual Report - 2019
by NUS-CDE
Laudable Performance of NUS Engineering Students at International Competitions
NUS iGEM Team Bags Gold and More at the 2019 iGEM Giant Jamboree
NUS iGEM team’s outstanding performance at the world’s largest annual synthetic biology student competition – iGEM – saw them edging out over 340 participating teams as top 5 undergraduate team and claim the Gold Medal at the annual iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston, USA held from 31 October to 4 November 2019. Besides clinching the Gold Medal for the project, the team also went on to win two special awards – the Best Foundational Advance Project and Best Part Collection Awards. The team was also nominated for the Best Poster, Presentation, Wiki, Basic Part, Composite Part and Finalist awards. This was Singapore’s and NUS’ best ever showing at the competition.
The NUS 2019 iGEM team in Boston. From left: Joanne Lim, Suhasini Iyer, Cheng Kai Lim, Sheena Chan, Low Xi Zhi, Song Chun Yang, Zhao Hao, Prof Jimmy Peng and Prof Poh Chueh Loo.
NUS FSAE Team Keeps Up the Momentum at International Formula SAE Competition
Staying on track to its performance in 2018, the NUS FSAE team once again came in 13 out of 120 teams in the annual Formula SAE International Challenge. In addition to maintaining its position in the overall ranking, the team also ranked highly in various events and sub-competitions – bagging fourth in Engineering Design competition, seventh in Acceleration event, eighth in Skidpad event and among Top 10 in Engineering Design Drawing.
The NUS FSAE team with their R-19 race car.
BumbleBee AUV Team Wins Best Static Judging at RoboSub 2019
NUS Engineering’s BumbleBee team pitted themselves against 53 other teams from 13 participating countries in RoboSub 2019 – an international competition designed to advance the development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). While BumbleBee AUV team was able to build an AUV that can autonomously navigate through a series of tasks during practice runs, the uncertainties during the actual run hampered them from a better showing. Nonetheless, BumbleBee AUV team managed to clinch the Best Static Judging award.
The BumbleBee team with their AUV at San Diego, California.
