NUS CEE - Civil & Environmental Engineering

Selamat Hari Raya from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering! 😊

Wishing our Muslim community a blessed Hari Raya Aidilfitri! May this celebration be filled with joy and cherished moments with family and friends.

Our sincere thanks to Soilbuild Pte Ltd for hosting our students at their Integrated Construction Prefabrication Hub.

As part of the B.Eng. Design Project and MSc Capstone Project, students from the NUS Civil Engineering programme - across the Infrastructure Digitalization & Management (IDM) and Structural Engineering (STR) specialisations - had the opportunity to see the production of 2D precast units up close and gain a better understanding of how design and manufacturing come together in modern construction.

Guided by Dr Paul Ong and Dr Kong Kian Hau, the visit helped connect classroom learning with real-world practice, giving students a deeper appreciation of precast concrete design and digitalised construction processes.

We are grateful to the Soilbuild team for their warm hospitality and for making the visit a meaningful learning experience for our students

Join us at the upcoming CEE Seminar, organised by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (NUS) and the Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS), where Professor Elita Li will share on the topic “Listening to Cities: A Noisy, Fun and Informative Data Mining Experience.”

📆 Date : 11 March 2026
🕒 Time : 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm
📍 Venue : EA-06-05, NUS CDE
🔗 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/bdezzr9c

Seats are limited to 50 participants and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Another batch of MSc (Civil Engineering) and MSc (Environmental Engineering) students successfully completed their industrial attachments at our partner companies, gaining hands-on experience in Singapore’s infrastructure sector and developing new skills that enriched their learning journey at NUS. 🌟

From Sirui, who gained experience in digital engineering, to Afeez, whose internship strengthened his ambition to drive positive change in the energy and environmental sectors, and Jiayi, who secured employment after graduation, our students had meaningful and transformative experiences.

We are grateful to our industry partners for their mentorship and look forward to future partnerships.

Join us for the Woh Hup Distinguished Lecture by Professor John Dolbow, Duke University, organised by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor Dolbow will present a talk on “On the Interplay Between Strength and Energetics in the Fracture of Solids.”

📅 Date: 6 March 2026
🕓 Time: 4.00 pm – 5.00 pm
📍 Venue: SDE LT426, NUS CDE

All are welcome. Registration is compulsory:
https://nus.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8feb0bb4WO6Ry8C

From all of us at NUS Civil and Environmental Engineering:

Happy Lunar New Year! May all your wishes be fulfilled this year of the horse 🍊🐴🧧🎊🏮

Join us for a Research Seminar organised by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS. Professor Chen Shuyan from Southeast University (SEU), China, will be presenting on the topic “Vehicle Emission Prediction and High-Emission Identification Using Deep Learning Models.”

📆 13 February 2026 | 10:30 am – 11:30 am
📍 EA-06-05, NUS CDE

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how AI is transforming sustainable transport research.

Join us for a CEE Research Seminar featuring Prof. Greg M. McFarquhar from the University of Oklahoma, USA, who will be sharing his views on “The Use of Airborne Measurements of Clouds to Inform Weather and Climate: Uncertainties, Impacts, and the Future.” This seminar is jointly organised by the Climate and Weather Research Alliance Singapore and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS.

📅 Date: 24 February 2026
⏰ Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
📍 Venue: E1-06-08, NUS CDE

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from an expert in climate and weather research!

A student team from NUS CEE - Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) received recognition at the Global Sustainability Challenge (GSC) organised by the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. The team comprises Hiew Wing Yian, a PhD student from NUS CEE, and Lai Jun Tung, a Master’s student from USTC.

Competing in the Climate Adaptation category, the team was selected among the top 250 out of 845 teams worldwide to advance to Phase 2 of the competition. At the Asia-Pacific Regional Final held at Zhejiang University, their two projects achieved outstanding results - First Prize for Waste Mining and Second Prize for Zen Ascend.

Project Highlights:
🔹 Waste Mining (First Prize): A digital, microbe-powered system that converts food waste into clean energy and low-carbon materials, reducing emissions from both waste management and cement production.
🔹 Zen Ascend (Second Prize): A modular, sensor-enabled solution that detects early structural tilting in flood-prone housing, enabling proactive intervention and strengthening community resilience.

The Global Sustainability Challenge is an annual initiative that empowers university students to develop actionable solutions to environmental and social challenges through a three-phase process—Ignite, Build, and Shine—supported by expert mentorship.

The competition offers valuable exposure, allowing students to translate research ideas into real-world applications, gain international experience, and grow through interdisciplinary collaboration.

Our warmest congratulations to Wing Yian on her outstanding achievements and for representing NUS with excellence.

The NUS Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering extends our warmest congratulations to Dr Wang Le and Dr Zhang Jingjing on their outstanding achievements.

🏅Dr Wang Le – Winner of the 2025 Yongnam Medal and Prize
(PhD Thesis Advisor: Dean’s Chair and Associate Professor Qian Xudong)

“For his pioneering advances in welding residual stress characterisation and fatigue assessment, integrating AI-enhanced simulations with rigorous experiments, and producing high-impact publications that significantly strengthen structural integrity evaluation and inform engineering practice.”

🏅Dr Zhang Jingjing – Winner of the 2025 Lee Seng Lip Medal and Prize
(PhD Thesis Advisor: Provost Chair Professor Balasubramanian Rajasekhar)

“For her pioneering work in designing and engineering novel single-atom catalysts that have transformed sustainable environmental remediation technologies, with particular impact on next-generation water purification systems.”

We are immensely proud of their achievements and wish them continued success in their academic and professional journeys.

👏 Congratulations once again!

Join us for a seminar organised by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, featuring Professor Ho Kyong Shon from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, who will present on Nutrient Recovery and Resource Circularity.

📆 10 February 2026
🕑 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm
📍 E4-04-03, NUS College of Design and Engineering