View All | Close All

• Year 2013
  • We congratulate Assoc Prof Yang Kun-Lin for receiving the Annual Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of his high level of commitment and achievement in education
  • Department congratulates Assoc. Professor Liu Bin for receiving the Young Investigator Award which is in recognition of her special achievements in research
  • ABB awards US$80000 to an NUS Chemical Engineering Project to be headed by Assoc. Prof. Raj Srinivasan and Prof. I. A. Karimi. It was one of the 40 projects selected globally, Congratulations!
  • ChBE faculty members and staff swept three awards at the NRF POC 8th Grant Call.
  • ChBE applauds our fine professors, A/Profs Yang Kun-Lin, Lakshminarayanan Samavedham, Chiu Min-Sen and Dr Eldin Lim, for winning the Teaching Award AY 2011/2012.
• Year 2012
  • Congratulations to Dr Sun Shipeng on his recent "Singapore Young Chemical Engineering Award" given by IChemE Singapore 2012.
  • Associate Professor Rajagopalan Srinivasan is recognized as amongst the 25 most prolific authors in the Journal "Computers & Chemical Engineering
  • ChBE recent PhD graduates, Dr Panu Sukitpaneenit and Dr Zhang Wei, won the World Future Foundation PhD Prize in Environmental and Sustainability Research 2012
  • Congratulations to Prof Lee Jim Yang on his reappointment as the Head of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
  • Congratulations to ChBE's Associate Professor Lakshminarayanan Samavedham who will be appointed as Director, Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning (CDTL) with effect from 1 September 2012.
  • NUS ChBE retains Asia's top ranking chemical engineering school position and moves up to top 7th in the world from 10th position in 2011 - according to QS World University Rankings 2012
  • ChBE professors have done us proud. Asst Prof Saif Khan wins an Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for his excellent teaching. Assoc Prof Loh Kai-Chee is inducted into the prestigious Honor Roll after winning 3 ATEA.
  • PhD Student Wang Peng wins the Best Student Oral Presentation Award in the ‘Desalination for The Environment and Clean Water and Energy’ International Conference 2012.
  • ChBE PhD student wins the Chairperson's award for best poster presentation at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science HOPE meeting 2012.
• Year 2011
  • Congratulations to Assoc Prof Liu Bin for winning the 3rd L’Oréal Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowships 2011.
  • Dr Ravichandar Babarao wins the World Future Foundation Prize in Environmental and Sustainability Research 2011.
  • Congratulations to Prof Neal Chung and Prof Zeng Hua Chun for being awarded the "Engineering Research Leadership Award 2010" and the "Faculty Research Award 2010" respectively in July 2011.
  • Congratulations to Prof Neal Chung, Assoc Prof Li Zhi and Assoc Prof Reginald Tan for their recent proposal award in the GSK-Singapore Partnership for Green and Sustainable Manufacturing 2011 grant call.
  • Congratulations to Assoc Prof Rajagopalan Srinivasan and colleagues for winning the Best Poster Award in the GSK-Singapore Partnership for Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Symposium.
  • Congratulations to our faculty members on their recent grant awards.
  • PhD Student Wang Huan Won the Student Poster Award in the 2011 North American Membrane Society Annual Meeting
  • Prof. Neal Chung receives Chair Professorship Appointment, A/P Loh wins the Engineering Educator Award for Teaching Awards 2009/2010
• Year 2010
  • Prof. Neal Chung wins the Hyflux-SNIC award in environmental Chemistry
  • A/P. Li Zhi wins NRF's Proof-of-Concept Grant
  • PhD Student Kanchi L. Kiran wins 3rd prize in International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering’s Student Poster Competition held in Singapore recently
  • Prof. E.T. Kang receives the SMF-NUS Research Horizons Awards
• Year 2009
  • Prof. Zeng's work on Nanotube Synthesis highlighted in Nature Asia Materials
  • S$4.5 Million Grant Awarded by Environment & Water Industry Development Council to research team led by Prof. Neal Chung for a project to explore the use of Biomimetic Membranes for Desalination and Water Reuse
  • Prof. Neal Chung TS and team win support from A*STAR (S$895K grant) to develop Hybrid Desalination Processes using cold energy from LNG re-gasification
  • Professors Farooq and Karimi win S$1.77 million grant from A*STAR to develop and demonstrate an Adsorption-based System for Post-combustion Carbon Capture
  • A*STAR supports Associate Professors Kawi and Hidajat with a S$1.1 million grant to develop an Integrated Catalytic Hollow Fiber Membrane Reactor
  • Department Alumni Low Fong Loo profiled in Straits Times - Leading Changes in the Chemical Industry
  • Prof. Neal Chung receives S$831K funds to pursue research on Polymeric Membrane Development for CO2 Capture from Fuel Gas
  • Dr. Lanry Yung’s Research Team wins S$900K Research Grant from MOE
• Year 2008
  • A/P. Zhao’s Research Team receives over S$2.5 Million Funds for Materials Research
  • Two in a Row: Best Paper Awards for Dr. Rudi Gunawan.
  • Dr. Tong Yen Wah wins a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • A/P. S.S. Feng's work on Cancer Treatment featured in the first ever Snapshots Section in Top Journal Biomaterials.
  • Assistant Professor Liu Bin's research on polymer chemistry and the application of polymers in biosensors and solar cells wins highest recognition in the form of a National Science and Technology Award (Young Scientist Award 2008)
  • Prof. Neal Chung and co-workers advance membrane technology for energy, water and health applications
  • Prof. Neal Chung appointed to Adjunct Chair Professorship by Taiwan's Chung Yuan Christian University
  • Best Methodology/Theory Paper Award (2005-2008) from the Journal of Process Control for Dr. Rudi Gunawan
  • Undergraduate student Ms Niti Sinha’s paper titled “Enhancing the functionality of Novel Regulatory Controller Stimulation Optimization wins the IES Publication Awards Committee cash prize of $300. This work was the outcome of her Final Year Project supervised by Dr. Laksh
  • PhD student Yeong Sai Hooi (supervised by A/P. M.P. Srinivasan) has won the best student paper award at the 17th International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology (IIT-2008) at Monterey, California, held between 8-13 June, 2008
  • ChBE winners at the 2008 Engineering Colours Awards
  • Departments' FYP Award Winners 2008
• Year 2007
  • Chemical Engineering Science Most Cited Paper 2003-2006 Award(Prof. Wang H.C.)
  • Chemical Engineering Science Most Cited Paper 2003-2006 Award(Prof.Feng S.S.)
  • Department's undergraduate students showcase their research prowess at the ChBE Final Year Project Poster Presentation cum Annual Alumni Lecture 2007
  • ChBE Students (Lin Mingui and Alfred Zheng Minghan) excel at the Shell Gourami Business Challenge
• Year 2006
  • Dr. Liu Bin wins an NUS Young Investigator Award
  • PhD student Rao Raghuraj (Supervisor: Dr. Lakshminarayanan Samavedham) wins the Best Poster Award at the Joint 3rd AOHUPO and 4th Structural Biology and Functional Genomics Conference, Singapore, 2006
  • Dr. Lakshminarayanan and co-workers win the Best Paper Award in the category: Advances in Process Control at CHEMCON 2005, New Delhi, India.
  • Prof. Miranda Yap to head A*STAR Graduate Academy
  • Prof. Raj Srinivasan and co-workers win Best paper Award at IEEE's INDIN Conference
  • Asst Prof Lakshminarayanan Samavedham: a winner of the Outstanding Educator Award 2006
  • Our team of PROBERS won SITP Silver Award (Mdm Tay Yak Keng, Mdm Teo Ai Peng, Mr Boey Kok Hong and Mdm Sandy Khoh)
  • Winner of the 2006 AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical, and Bioengineering Division Graduate Student Award - Ms Woo Xing Yi
  • Top Honor: Prof. Miranda Yap named to the US National Academy of Engineering
• Year 2005
  • PhD Student Jiang Lanying wins the 2005 North American Membrane Society Student Award
  • Winner of the 2005 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Award - Ms Woo Xing Yi