DAA students clinched 2 Golds and 2 Silvers at the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition 2011

4 teams of SEG-DAA students participated in the recently concluded Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition 2011 (held from 10 to 18 Mar).

Despite intense competition from a field of 36 teams (comprising teams from NUS, NTU, SIM, NIE and the 5 Polys), our students impressed the judges with their ingenious flying craft designs, sound application of aerodynamic principles and sublime flying skills. In the process, our students managed to stand out from the rest in the presentation and flying phases of the competition, and clinched the following 4 awards:

Gold and Silver – Best Theory of Flight

Gold and Silver – Best Aesthetic

One of our students’ design was inspired by the Hunter Killer Drone in the movie Terminator 3 - which drew special commendation from the judges.

Our winning students:

Teams SCYTH and Maestros: Yongli, Ezekiel, Khee Teng, Nicholas and Li Ling

(not present Marcus and Yuanzhong)

Gold and Silver: Best Aesthetic Award

Gold: Best Theory of Flight Award

Team Fly High: Nicholas Thomas, Pradeep, Yuqi (not present Jun Ming)

Silver – Best Theory of Flight

Our Flying Craft Designs:

Our Flyboys and Flying crafts in action during the competition:

Polytechnic Student Research Program (PSRP) Awards Ceremony 2011

The Polytechnic Student Research Program (PSRP) Awards Ceremony was held at Singapore Polytechnic on 17 March 2011 (Thur)

Republic Polytechnic School of Engineering had emerged as one of the Winning teams for the PSRP 2011.

Congratulation to our FYP Project winning team (Project title: Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Platform and Applications in Mobile device) led by Dr. Jiang Lijun. Their project was showcased in a booth setup at the PSRP award ceremony.

The winning FYP Team

Students with RP Directors and SEG Staffs



With our Principal

SEG students won GOLD award in IES design competition

5 students from the Diploma of Biomedical Electronics (DBME), School of Engineering won the Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) Design 2011 GOLD award based on their FYP project - “iPhone based Brain-Controlled power wheel chair”.  This is the 1^st time ever for RP to win the Gold award in the prestigious yearly competition.  As the gold winner, the team will receive $1000 prize and will be sponsored by IES to represent Singapore to attend the 5^th i-Create convention to be held in Bangkok in July 2011.

Let’s  give our heartiest congratulations to the team members! They are ONG GIA PHU, FREDDY,  TEN JING MAO, KENNETH LIM JUN HAO, LIANG WEIKANG.

Below is the final medal tally of the IES Design competition 2011:  

Gold (1 winner): Republic Polytechnic

Silver Award (1 winner):  Nanyang Polytechnic

Bronze (2 winners) :  Ngee Ann Polytechnic,   Singapore Polytechnic