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 1st 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 5th 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
