Address
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT@NYP), 172 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8, Singapore 567739
Contact person
Dr Muhamed Fauzi Bin Abbas
Singapore Institute of Technology has become a relative newcomer at TRON Symposium after a faculty member moved there from Nanyang Technological University, which has been regular for nearly 15 years.
TRON Forum would like to introduce SIT on their behalf because it appreciates the past and ongoing collaboration. Unfortunately, it cannot participate in the symposium this year due to the school event schedule. Please send the inquiry to the address listed in the URL on the left or to the TRON Forum secretariat in Japan.
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is the fifth autonomous university in Singapore and Singapore’s first applied learning university. Established in 2009, SIT and nine overseas university partners have grown to over 7,000 students across forty undergraduate programmes. SIT offers applied degree programmes targeted at economic growth sectors with a unique pedagogy integrating work and study. SIT’s undergraduate programmes feature an eight to twelve months Integrated Work Study Programme (IWSP), which exemplifies the best of university-industry collaboration. These undergraduate programmes are grouped into five clusters – Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Food Technology, Information Communication Technology, Health and Social Sciences, and Design and Specialized Businesses.
SIT’s vision is to be a leader in innovative learning by integrating learning, industry and community. Its mission is to nurture and develop individuals who build on their interests and talents to impact society in meaningful ways. SIT also aims to cultivate in its students four distinctive traits, or the SIT-DNA, which will prepare them to be ‘thinking tinkerers’, who are ‘able to learn, unlearn and relearn’, be ‘catalysts for transformation’ and finally, become grounded in the community’.
Embedded systems and IoT related modules are taught within the Information Communication Technology (ICT) cluster. These modules teaching pedagogy focuses on applied learning, where the students identify a real-world problem and propose and implement an IoT or embedded system solution.
At the booth, Dr. Muhamed Fauzi Bin Abbas will display and discuss his past research on embedded systems. His research has been presented in paper sessions at past TRON Symposiums and other conferences. In addition, a student paper written under his supervision will be presented in the paper session of the 2022 TRON Symposium.
Currently, the research direction of Dr Muhamed Fauzi Bin Abbas and his colleagues at SIT is as follows.
The evolution of urban farming has occurred at a blistering pace and AIoT has played a significant part in improving the efficiencies of the process flow from seed to harvested crop. The next stage of urban farming would be to optimise the crop potential, and this requires the integration of knowledge and technologies across various domains with the goals of maximising crop yield and achieving preferential crop phenotypes using the same seed. Therefore, as part of the projects, the goal is to work closely with the crop scientist to build a multi-disciplinary team involving the skillsets of usability research, design, and strong technical development. Finally, relying on the industry and research community relationships that were built, to further improve collaboration, and with other affiliated industries, e.g. aquaculture.