SMA Annual Symposium 2007 - " Emerging Technologies and Markets "

What market opportunities are there from emerging technologies? How does the globalisation level the playing field for companies operating in the "new world" economy ? These and other topics were the focus of SMA's seventh SMA Symposium, an occasion that was graced by Singapore's Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Mr S Iswaran, and attended by top managers, academics and students from both sides of the Pacific.

SMA Alumnus Awarded Presitigious Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship

For his leading-edge work on ultra-thin 3-D chips, SMA Alumnus Dr Tan Chuan Seng was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship. Find out why Dr Tan calls his research a potential "destructive technology", and how he overcame tough personal challenges to win rare recognition.

Industry Visit and Sharing By Alumni Prepare Students for Work World

SMA students have been busy preparing their theses. But there was still time for industry visits to top firms like Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. These gave them a sneak peek into the the organisation's career opportunities and research fields. Meanwhile, the SMA Singapore office threw a welcome-back party for returning MIT residents and also organised a career talk for  the graduates to prepare them for the work world.

Glassy Metals - Super Materials of the Future

SMA PhD candidate, Ms Fu Xiaoling, has been consolidating her findings on BMGMCs and how the ultra-strong, super-plastic materials' strength varied with the types of reinforcements added. Find out why she says her roadmap challenged conventional assumption. Another SMA graduate and Research Assistant, Nguyen Vinh Tan, is also putting the finishing touches on his work, but in a differerent field- developing a numerical model to capture the phenomenom of shock, which can yield many applications across industries.

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