Young Engineers Day 2013
Opened by a Welcome Address by the President of IES, Prof Chou Siaw Kiang, the Young Engineers Day
2013 was launched with the theme “Trust Us, We are Engineers”. The students from various Secondary
Schools and tertiary institutions then took part in a dialogue session that was moderated by Mr. Joe
Eades, Managing Director of Ispahan Group, Part Time Lecturer at National University of Singapore and Vice
Chairman of IChemE in Singapore at IChemE.
The speakers at the dialogue session were Dr Freda LIM Chiang Huay, Scientist at the Institute of High Performance
Computing, A*Star; Eng. Zainab S. Lari, Chair of WFEO Young Engineers / Future Leaders Committee, Vice
President of WFEO and Board Member of Kuwait Society of Engineers; Dr Freda Lim Chiang Huay,
Scientist, IHPC A*STAR; Mr Peter Goh Teck Ting, Managing Director of Chloros-Solutions; and Ms Fam
Meiling, Chairman of IES Young Engineers Committee.
The students then broke up into their respective teams to present projects to address the issue of
climate change.
The Chief Judge of the judging panel, Mr Yuen Sai Kuan, Director of 3P Network Division of the National
Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) in the Prime Minister’s Office, handed out the awards to the winning
teams at the end of the night.
Judge for National Team:
1. Assoc Prof Edmond Lo Yat Man, Deputy Director of Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management
(ICRM)
2. Assoc Prof Philip Cheang, Dean School of Science & Technology, UniSim
3. Calvin Chung Weng Yew, Assistant Director, JTC Corporation
4. Ho Chi Bao, Director, SPRING
Judges for International Team:
1. Ho Chi Bao, Director, SPRING
2. Er. Teo Kong Poon, Senior Director, Facilities, Seagate Technology International
3. Yuen Sai Kuan, Director, 3P Network Division of the National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS)
4. Calvin Chung Weng Yew, Assistant Director, JTC Corporation
Award Winners:
International Category:
1st prize: Tianjin Group 2, project name: “Intelligent Aerator for water acceleration”
2nd prize: Singapore University of Technology and Design, project name: “Bio-Medical Active Energy
System”
3rd prize: Nankai university, project name: “Zero Carbon Emission and self – sustainable wastewater
treatment system”
National Category:
1st prize: Singapore Polytechnic Group 1, project name “From Sugarcane Bagasse to Evergreen Board”
2nd prize: Dunman High, project name: “Energy Savvy - InSOUL”
3rd prize: Temasek Polytechnic, project name “Larvae Eating Robotic Fish”