Nanyang Technological University

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
Nanyang Technological University
Established 1981
Type Autonomous
Endowment S$914 million[1]
Chancellor President S R Nathan
President Dr Su Guaning
Faculty 1,100
Staff 3,739
Students 28,949
Undergraduates 20,206
Postgraduates 8,743
Location Nanyang Avenue, Singapore
1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E / 1.34472°N 103.68139°E / 1.34472; 103.68139Coordinates: 1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E / 1.34472°N 103.68139°E / 1.34472; 103.68139
Campus 2 km²
Colors      University Red
     School Blue
Affiliations ASAIHL, AUN, Global Alliance of Technological Universities
Website www.ntu.edu.sg
Nanyang Technological University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 南洋理工大學
Simplified Chinese 南洋理工大学
Malay name
Malay Universiti Teknologi Nanyang
Tamil name
Tamil நன்யாங் தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம்

Nanyang Technological University (Abbreviation: NTU) is a research university in Singapore. The university's main 200-hectare garden campus, known as the Yunnan Garden campus, is in the south-western part of the island. It houses Singapore's largest on-campus residence infrastructure including 16 halls of residence for undergraduates and a graduate hall. NTU will be the Olympic Village for the first-ever Youth Olympic Games in 2010. It is a founding member of Global Alliance of Technological Universities[2].

Contents

[edit] History

NTU has a lineage with roots that date back to 1955, when Nanyang University (Nantah), the first Chinese-language university outside China, was set up with donations from people of all walks of life from Singapore and the region. The idea of establishing such a university was first mooted by Mr Tan Lark Sye and he himself donated $5 million towards its establishment. The lush university grounds - the Yunnan Garden campus - was donated by the Hokkien Association.

In 1980, Nanyang University merged with the University of Singapore to form the National University of Singapore. Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) was established on the same campus in 1981 with government funding to educate practice-oriented engineers for the burgeoning Singapore economy. Three schools of Engineering were formed and NTI was named "one of the best engineering institutions in the world" by the Commonwealth Engineering council in 1985[citation needed]. NTI admitted its first batch of 582 engineering students in July 1982. As the Institute developed, courses other than engineering were offered over the years—Accounting (1987), Business, Computer Engineering (1989), Material Engineering, Arts with Diploma in Education and Science with Diploma in Education (1991).

In 1991, NTI was reconstituted and became Nanyang Technological University with the absorption of the National Institute of Education, the only tertiary institute for teachers in Singapore. The alumni rolls of the former Nanyang University were transferred to NTU in 1996.

In 2005, NTU celebrated her golden jubilee. The 50th Anniversary celebrations marked the unification of the three chapters of NTU's history - Nanyang University, Nanyang Technological Institute and the National Institute of Education.

NTU opened three new schools in 2005. They were:

  • The School of Art, Design and Media - Singapore's first professional art school offering degree courses in art, design and interactive digital media
  • The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, offering programmes in Chinese, Economics, English, Psychology and Sociology
  • The School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), with the Divisions of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), Physics and Applied Physics (PAP), and Chemistry and Biological Chemistry (CBC), offering direct Honours programs and graduate degrees leading to the PhD in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

In April 2006, NTU became an autonomous university.

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, named in memory of one of the founding fathers of Singapore, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, was inaugurated in January 2007. An important component of this autonomous school is the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, recognised as a world authority on terrorism.

In April 2007, Professor Bertil Andersson assumed office as NTU's Provost. Since January 2004, Professor Andersson has been the Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation (ESF). In early 2005, he was elected Vice-President of European Research Advisory Board (EURAB). Professor Andersson is now a Trustee of the Nobel Foundation.

NTU's second campus in Singapore, NTU@one-north and the NTU Alumni Clubhouse was officially opened by the President S.R Nathan in May 2007. The presence of NTU in the heart of the Biopolis and Fusionopolis R&D hubs was strategic - it enabled the university to establish itself as a member of the one-north research community. The one-north city campus serves as a home for all of NTU's alumni, and facilitates continuing education through programmes offered by the Centre for Continuing Education and Confucius Institute. At the opening, NTU President Dr Su Guaning announced that a graduate school is being planned at one-north. The graduate school will home in on bio-engineering research and boost NTU's collaboration with the area's research institutions.

[edit] Campus

Lee Wee Nam Library
Administrative Building
Chinese Heritage Centre, formerly the administrative building of Nanyang University

The Yunnan Garden Campus, with its lush landscape and undulating terrain, is located in the south-western part of Singapore, some 25 km from the city-centre. The original part of the campus was built in 1986 and the campus buildings are laid out on a master plan drawn up by architect Kenzo Tange.

Members of the university community study and work in the laboratories, lecture theaters and tutorial rooms. The School of Art, Design and Media has grassy-sloped roofs mimicing the rolling hills of the garden campus.

The campus has an e-learning infrastructure on top of a wired and wireless network setup. Seminars and lectures are supported by facilities that allow multi-media presentations, video-conferencing and communication between lecture theatres and venues.

Staff and students can choose to live in quarters and residential halls within the NTU Campus, and have access to leisure and recreational facilities. Students are able to choose from single or double-sharing rooms, though there have been proposals of triple room sharing.

In late 2000, NTU's National Institute of Education shifted into its new $400 million campus at the NTU grounds.

[edit] Colleges, schools and institutes

NTU has four colleges, comprising 12 schools. The College of Engineering, with six schools focused on technology innovation, enjoys wide renown and ranks fourth in the world in engineering publications[citation needed]. The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences has Singapore's first professional art school, the Humanities and Social Science School, and the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. The school is named after the late Dr Wee Kim Wee, a former President of Singapore who was a journalist and diplomat.

[edit] College of Engineering

College of Engineering website

[edit] College of Science

[edit] Nanyang Business School

[edit] College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

[edit] Autonomous Entities

[edit] Institutes and Centres

  • Confucius Institute
  • Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management
  • Institute of Advanced Studies
  • Lien Chinese Enterprise Research Centre
  • Nanyang Technopreneurship Center

[edit] Research Institutes and Centres

NTU has multi-country programmes and initiatives with institutions worldwide. Some examples of key partners include MIT, Stanford University, Cornell University, Caltech, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University; world-class universities in Asia such as Beijing University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Waseda, IIT of India; and European universities like Cambridge University, Imperial College,Edinburgh University, Berlin School of Economics, University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil (Switzerland), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of St Gallen, University of Technology of Compiegne and University of Technology of Troyes.

[edit] Research Centres within Schools

[edit] Interdisciplinary Research Clusters

  • Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering Cluster (BPE Cluster)
    • Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (BMERC)
    • Centre for Biotechnology (CBT)
    • Centre for Chiral and Pharmaceutical Engineering (CCPE)
    • Computer-integrated Medical Intervention Laboratory (CIMIL)
    • Physiological Mechanics Laboratory (PML)
  • Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Cluster (NanoCluster)
    • Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMRC)
    • Facility for Analysis, Characterisation, Testing and Simulation (FACTS)
    • Microelectronics Centre (MEC)
    • MicroMachines Centre (MMC)
    • Photonics Research Centre (PhRC)
    • Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (PEN) Centre
  • Intelligent Devices and Systems Cluster
    • Centre for Computational Intelligence (C2i)
    • Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems (CHiPES)
    • Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (CHFE)
    • Centre for Integrated Circuits and Systems (CICS)
    • Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM)
    • Centre for Mechanics of Micro-Systems (CMMS)
    • Robotics Research Centre (RRC)
  • Advanced Computing and Media Cluster
    • Centre for Advanced Media Technology (CAMTech)
    • Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre (IERC)
    • BioInformatics Research Centre (BIRC)
  • InfoComm Cluster
    • Network Technology Research Centre (NTRC)
    • Positioning and Wireless Technology Centre (PWTC)
    • Centre for Multimedia and Network Technology (CeMNet)
    • Centre for Signal Processing (CSP)
    • Centre for Information Security (CIS)

[edit] Other Institutes and Centers

  • Centre for Research on Small Enterprise Development (CRSED)
  • Chinese Heritage Centre (CHC)
  • Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS)
  • Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS)
  • Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE)
  • Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC)

[edit] Joint Centres with External Organizations

  • Energetic Materials Research Centre (EMRC)
  • Intelligent Systems Centre (IntelliSys)
  • NTU-CIDB Centre for Advanced Construction Studies (CACS)
  • NTU-MINDEF Protective Technology Research Centre (PTRC)
  • NTU-MPA Maritime Research Centre
  • NTU-NEA Environmental Engineering Research Centre (EERC)
  • NTU-PWD Geotechnical Research Centre (GRC)
  • NTU-SGI Centre for Graphics and Imaging Technology (CGIT)
  • Satellite Engineering Centre (SEC)
  • Temasek Laboratories@NTU
  • Thales@NTU

[edit] Internet learning on Campus

The University is connected to the Internet. All the facilities and resources available over the Internet are accessible by anyone on the campus network. The campus network, which links together all computing systems on the campus, is managed by the University's Centre for IT Services (CITS).

To supplement the fixed-line campus network, NTU implemented a campus-wide wireless network in 2000. This high-speed wireless network, capable of a transfer rate of up to 11 megabits per second, enables NTU staff and students equipped with mobile devices such as notebooks, PCs and PDAs to access all networked services from practically anywhere on the campus without the need of a hardwired network connection.

NNTU provides e-learning services via edveNTUre. This is a system based on BlackBoard technology. Besides providing a repository of lecture recordings, lecture notes in PDF/powerpoint slides, it also facilitates learning activities for collaboration, discussion, assessment and project work. During term time, the usage typically by staff and students exceeds nine-million page views weekly (July 2007).

[edit] Extra-curricular activities

Question book-new.svg
 This section does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2009)

Since its inauguration 19 years ago, the Nanyang Technological University Cultural Activities Club (CAC)[3] has evolved into one of the largest student bodies on campus. The CAC is an umbrella organization for 21 member clubs and manages large-scale projects such as the NTU Talentime – Impresario and the annual Nanyang Arts Festival, NTU’s version of the Singapore Arts Festival. The clubs have approximately 2,000 students involved, either in performing or event management roles. Coupled with performing alumni of more than 500 members, the CAC boasts of membership strength of at least 2,500. Each student is made a member of the club upon matriculation.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Annual Report 2007". Nanyang Technological University. 15 August 2007. http://www.ntu.edu.sg/oas2/AnnualRep/2007/financial.htm. 
  2. ^ http://www.globaltechalliance.org/
  3. ^ http://www.ntucac.com

[edit] External links

Search Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Nanyang Technological University
v • d • e
Education in Singapore
Schools
Technical and
Vocational Institutes
Polytechnics
Public universities
Private universities
and colleges
Programmes
Examinations
Co-curriculas
Libraries
Ministry of Education
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanyang_Technological_University"