Events

Design for Living in Extreme Environments

Speaker| Architect Guillermo Trotti, President of Trotti & Associates, Inc. Date| 19 July 2016, Tuesday Time| 1000 – 1100 Venue| Think Tank 20, Building 2, Level 3 (2.305)

From Gutenberg Bible to 4D printing

Speaker| Prof. Shlomo Magdassi, Professor of Chemistry, Casali Center for Applied Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 91904. Date| 18 July 2016, Monday Time| 1100 – 1200 Venue| Think Tank 20, Building 2, Level 3 (2.305)

#SpaceHack! Design Competition for Space Habitats

What| Design Competition for Space Habitats Who| Everyone! (all education levels, backgrounds, and skill levels are welcome to participate) Limited to 20 people ONLY! Where| SUTD Cohort Classroom 13, 2.506 When| 18th – 20th July 2016, 1pm – 5pm Why| Amazing Prizes *Team Prizes: 1st Prize:  SGD 1200; 2nd Prize: SGD 800; 3rd Prize: SGD 500 A Space-focused design competition with leading professionals from the Space Industry! […]

DManD CodeKitchen: Series 3

Mixing together new ideas, design concepts, and tools, drawn from computer and materials science, engineering, architecture, the humanities, arts, and social sciences, DManD CodeKitchen is organizing it’s first series of “kitchens” as part of the SUTD Digital Manufacturing and Design and (DManD) Centre’s mission to create the future frontiers of digital design and manufacturing. Taught by Dr. Paul Mignone | 5-7 PM, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 | […]

Synthesis of High-Quality Two-Dimensional Materials for New Functional Devices

Title| Synthesis of High-Quality Two-Dimensional Materials for New Functional Devices Speaker| Dr Hao Yufeng, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia Nano Initiative and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, United States. ABSTRACT Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), topological insulators (TIs), and the more recent silicene and germanene, etc., have stable crystalline structures and unique electronic properties, […]

Mechanics of Soft Materials and Structures

Title| Mechanics of Soft Materials and Structures Speaker| Professor Shaoxing Qu, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China 310027. ABSTRACT Dielectric elastomer (DE) as one kind of electroactive polymers, has attracted extensive studies in the field of smart materials and structures, due to its superior properties, such as voltage-induced large deformation, fast response, quiet operation, high energy density, light weight and low cost. […]

4D Printing: Concept, Implementation, and Challenges

Speaker| Associate Professor H. Jerry Qi, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Date|14th December 2015, Monday Time| 1100 – 1200 Venue| Think Tank 20, Building 2, Level 3 (2.305)  

Augment that: About designing futurist augmented systems and user experiences based on objects, culture, artefacts of the past

Speaker| Anirudh Sharma (MIT Media Lab)      Date|5th November 2015, Thursday Time| 11am – 12pm Venue| Think Tank 22, Building 2, Level 3 (2.311)