Singapore

This introductory course explores what a living thing is, the basics of life, and the science behind it. Topics include how traits are inherited, biotechnology, diversity of life, concept of life functions from cells to tissues and from organs to systems, how organisms maintain their internal constancy, and the organization of major organ systems.

This is a course in single-variable calculus. It introduces precise definitions of limit, continuity, derivative, and the Riemann integral. It covers computational techniques and applications of differentiation and integration. This course concludes with an introduction to first order differential equations. Major topics include functions; limit and continuity; derivative; Intermediate Value Theorem; chain rule; implicit differentiation; higher derivatives; Mean Value Theorem; Riemann integral; Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; elementary transcendental functions and their inverses; techniques of integration; computation of area, volume and arc length using definite integrals; and first order differential equations.

This course provides basic principles to the engineering of biology with emphasis on the design and construction of synthetic gene circuits in living cells. The course also discusses current and emerging applications driven by synthetic biology, and the socio-ethical responsibilities that are required of synthetic biologists. 

This course introduces classical Southeast Asian dance and drama with a particular emphasis on masked dance traditions. Drawing on an analysis of scholarly texts, videos and hands-on sessions the course takes an exciting theatrical journey through Southeast Asia. The course teaches an appreciation of classical dance traditions in the region from a variety of angles, such as dramaturgical principles, music, aesthetics, ritual significance, nationalism, tourism and change. The course also teaches how to perform and create compositions in a Southeast Asian dance form. 

The latest industrial revolution is named as Industry 4.0, which is defined as the combination of smart manufacturing systems and developed information technologies. The success model of Industry 4.0 is enabled by a group of tools such as cloud computing, machine learning, big data, internet of things, and cyber physical systems. This course provides a study of Industry 4.0 and its revolutionary implications to smart manufacturing, smart products/services, and smart cities. The implementation, opportunities and challenges of Industry 4.0 are also discussed. The powerful change in production techniques will require the extensive use of digital intelligence in the entire production process. As one of the important manufacturing methods of Industry 4.0, additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing is introduced in the second part of course. 3D printing offers numerous benefits to a smart factory, such as high production efficiency, time and material saving, rapid prototyping, and decentralized production methods. This course provides a comprehensive study on the liquid, solid and powder-based 3D printing methods. It also offers insights on the applications and future trend of 3D printing.

Building upon the basis of Japanese 2, this course develops ability to communicate and expands the repertoire of daily topics and situations. Complex structures such as noun modification, transitive/intransitive verb sentences and conditional forms are introduced. Approximately 140 kanji are introduced. With this knowledge of characters, students will be able to understand and write simple and short essays.

This course covers the chemistry of major food components such as water, lipid, carbohydrate, and protein including food enzymes. The basic functions of these components are also be introduced. Some chemical reactions involving these molecules with relation to food processing and storage are discussed. In addition, methods of chemical modification to change the chemical and physical properties of the food components are also presented. Basic laboratory techniques used in food chemistry laboratory will also be introduced.

Automatic methods of Information Retrieval (IR) have gained greater significance in recent years due to the dramatic increase in the amount of data available on the Web. The data is often present in multiple forms (such as text, image, video) and hence it is necessary that the IR techniques being deployed on the web are able to perform various operations such as search and retrieval across all these different data formats. In this course, the study of IR is focused on the methodologies of indexing, processing, and querying of primary textual data and extended to video and image data in the latter part of the course.