ENGINEERING IN TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE, A DESIGN-CENTRIC PROGRAM APPROACH FOR ENGINEERS

One of the main tasks of tertiary engineering education is to educate and prepare future engineers on the being able to tackle the challenges ahead in their career path. There are many different approaches to achieve the above mentioned objective. Infusing the flavor of design and innovation in the curriculum could be one of the possible ways to prepare and motivate the would-be engineers for their future challenges. On this note, the Faculty of Engineering has embarked on the Engineering in Translational Medicine (ETM) Track in the Design-Centric Program (DCP) under the faculty at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The students from the various engineering disciplines come together to form multi-disciplinary teams to develop engineering solutions for clinical applications, under the supervision of a panel of multi-disciplinary supervisors with medical, engineering and industrial expertise. This paper highlights the design framework of this program for engineering education and some preliminaries on the case study on this.