“It all started in my childhood with Lego blocks. I’ve always liked to build things,” recalls Dr Clayton Miller, as he muses on the beginnings of his fascination with building science. Dr Miller, who is Assistant Professor at the NUS School of Design and Environment, Department of Building, has since rapidly moved from building blocks to buildings.
A Class Of Their Own: Building the future with data March 27, 2023
A Class Of Their Own: Education and the ecosystem March 27, 2023
Mr N. Sivasothi, or “Otterman”, the moniker he adopted early on in his career to relate and educate, is an educator whose teaching is inextricable from his environmental advocacy. The two, in his own words, exist in an “ecosystem” in which every element “feeds into another”. For Mr Sivasothi, academia does not end in theory, and education is unconstrained by classroom time.
A Class Of Their Own: Engineering the self March 27, 2023
“Doing my best for my students—it’s natural. It’s what we should do as ordinary human beings, that’s one thing. And secondly, teaching is a higher calling; this is what any teacher should do.”
With these words, Associate Professor Lakshminarayanan Samavedham of NUS Engineering modestly waves away any semblance of praise for his pedagogical achievements.
A Class Of Their Own:
Inspiring the next
generation of dentists March 27, 2023
NUS Dentistry’s Associate Professor Kelvin Foong led an MOE- funded Programmatic Tertiary Education Research Fund project that utilised eye tracking technology to discern the areas where students tended to focus on when reading X-rays. Real-time feedback was provided and trainee dentists were thus able to more accurately spot problems in the X-rays.
A Class Of Their Own: Passing on the legacy of thinking March 27, 2023
“All teachers are the sum of all other teachers who have ever taught them. And when you’re being taught, you’re not just being taught by me, you’re being taught by all the teachers who ever taught me”
A Class of Their Own: The accidental professor March 27, 2023
For this “accidental professor”, as Professor Jochen Wirtz wryly describes himself, teaching was never part of the plan.
Prof Wirtz, who is Vice Dean for MBA Programmes and Professor of Marketing at NUS Business School, initially began his career as a services marketing consultant in London.
A Class Of Their Own: The lecture as performance art March 27, 2023
What makes a lecture special?
“There’s nothing like a live performance,” says NUS Engineering’s Professor Seah Kar Heng. “My classes are so entertaining they don’t sleep.” And so for one and a half hours, he holds the full attention of
his students, imparting engineering wisdom that many of them remember for years after.