TEACHING ACTIVITIES


Professor Joshua Le-Wei Li was awarded the University Excellent Teacher Award (Year 2003/2004) by the Provost & Deputy President of NUS.

 

 

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES - TEACHING


Courses developed and taught

§       EE6004 Selected Advanced Topics in EM Modeling (Advanced postgraduate module lectures co-taught with Prof. Grant Ellis in years 2000-2001 and others subsequently)

§       SMA5222 Engineering Science: Models and Computations (Graduate advanced level course lectures in Phase-I SMA-HPCES for SM, MEng, & PhD graduates, co-taught with other SMA-Fellows)

§       EE5308 Antenna Engineering (Postgraduate module lectures co-taught with Prof. MS Leong)

§       EE5302 Microwave Theory & Techniques (Postgraduate module lectures co-taught with Prof. TS Yeo or other faculty)

§       SMA5201 Immersion Course - Numerical Linear Algebra (Graduate entry level course lectures in Phase-I SMA-HPCES for SM, MEng, & PhD graduates, co-taught with other SMA-Fellows)

§       DST5312 Advanced Sensors: SR06-Introduction to Radar Cross Sections (Graduate diploma module lectures co-taught with Prof. Jacob C. Coetzee) 

§       EE4002 Engineering Mathematics V (Undergraduate B.Eng. final-year module lectures co-taught with Prof. A. Khursheed)

§       EE3002 Engineering Mathematics IV (Undergraduate B.Eng. module tutorials)

§       EE2011 Engineering Electromagnetics (Undergraduate B.Eng. degree module lectures and tutorials co-taught with Dr Hui Hon Tat)

§       EE2002 Engineering Mathematics III (Undergraduate B.Eng. module tutorials)

§       CG2112 Communications I (Undergraduate B.Eng. module tutorials)

§       TE3801 Robust Design of Electronic Circuits  (B.Tech students tutorials)

§       TE2401 Engineering Mathematics (B.Tech students tutorials)

§       EE2011E Engineering Electromagnetics (B.Tech students tutorials)

§       TE2002 Engineering Mathematics I (B.Tech students tutorials)

 

AWARDS AND HONOURS OF STUDENTS 


 The following former students under (co-)supervision received awards and/or honours: 

§        Ms Minzhan Gao, 1993, awarded "Young Scientist Travel Grant" to attend IGARSS'93 in Tokyo, Japan

§        Mr. Kian-Hwa Tan, 1997, awarded "Hewlett-Packard Prize", for the best B.Eng. degree thesis among over 400 theses in the year

§        Mr. Seh-Ngi Lim, 1998, awarded "IEE Prize" for his outstanding academic performance in undergraduate studies

§        Mr. Hock-Guan Wee, 1999, awarded "Hewlett-Packard Prize", for the best B.Eng. degree thesis among over 400 theses in the year

§        Mr. Seh-Ngi Lim, 1999, awarded "IEEE Regional 10 Student Contest Prize", the second place in Undergraduate Category, for his excellent research work (in B.Eng. degree final year project) 

§        Mr. Nam-Hoe Lim, 2000, awarded "Hewlett-Packard Prize", for the best B.Eng. degree thesis among over 400 theses in the year

§        Mr. Mui-Seng Yeo, 2000, awarded "Young Scientist Travel Grant" to attend ISAP'00 in Fukuoka, Japan 

§        Mr. Xiao-Kang Kang, 2000, awarded "IEEE Regional 10 Student Contest Prize", the third place in Postgraduate Category, for his excellent research work (in Ph.D. degree research project)

§        Ms. Puay-Eng Peh, 2001, awarded NSTB Gold Medal, for the best B.Tech degree Final-Year Project in electronics

§        Mr. Yi Jiang, 2001, awarded the IBM-IHPC Book Prize for the best S.M. degree industrial project in High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems (HPCES) Programme of Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

§        Mr. Zhen-Zhen Ye, 2003, awarded the IBM-IHPC Book Prize for the best S.M. degree industrial project in High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems (HPCES) Programme of Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

§        Mr. Hai-Bo Liu, 2004, awarded the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Undergraduate Scholarship for 2003-4 for undergraduate project (FYP project)

§        Mr. Xin Liu, 2004, awarded the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Undergraduate Scholarship for 2003-4 for undergraduate project (FYP project)

§        Mr Wei Bin Ewe, 2004, awarded the ISAP'04 Young Scientist Travel Grant (YSTG) for presenting his paper in Sendai, Japan on August 17-21, 2004, after selected by the ISAP'04 Technical Program Committee.

§        Mr. Cheng-Wei Qiu, 2005, Finalist of Best Student Paper Awards, 2005 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, Suzhou, China, December 4-7, 2005

§        Mr. Cheng-Wei Qiu, 2006, SUMMA Graduate Fellowship Award in Advanced Electromagnetics (US$15,000) by SUMMA Foundation, January 2006

§        Mr. Cheng-Wei Qiu, 2006, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Graduate Fellowship Award (US$2,500) by IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, New Jersey, USA, July 2006

§        Mr. Kai Kang, 2007, the Second Prize in IEEE Singapore Section Student Paper Contest - Postgraduate Category by IEEE Singapore Section, March 2007

§        Mr Cheng-Wei Qiu, 2007, awarded the ISAP'07 Young Scientist Travel Grant (YSTG) for presenting his paper in Niigata, Japan on August 20-24, 2007, after selected by the ISAP'07 Technical Program Committee.

§        Mr Cheng-Wei Qiu, 2007, won the merit-based travel grant for participating at the Metamaterials'07 in Rome, Italy on October 22-26, 2007, after selected by the Metamaterials'07 Technical Program Committee.     

§        Mr. Hao-Yuan She, 2008, the Third Place Prize - Postgraduate Category in IEEE Regional 10 Student Paper Contest by IEEE Regional 10 (Asia-Pacific), July 2008

§        Miss Yu-Ming Wu, 2009, the Second Place Prize - Postgraduate Category in IEEE Regional 10 Student Paper Contest by IEEE Regional 10 (Asia-Pacific), September 2009

§        Mr. Li Hu, 2009, the Third Place Prize - Postgraduate Category in IEEE Regional 10 Student Paper Contest by IEEE Regional 10 (Asia-Pacific), September 2009

 

STUDENTS' TEACHING FEEDBACKS


Prof. Le-Wei Li has dedicated to excellence of teaching for the last over 10 years. Since the start of his teaching career, he has been ranked continuously over 10 years on the top of the 4 grades, namely, (a) Very Good, (b) Good, (c) Shown Improvement, and (d) Need Improvement.

 

The electronic students' feedback system started to avail to staff from 2002 after its many years' paper-form feedbacks: 

§        Year 2002/2003: EE5308 Antenna Engineering, EE6004-Advanced Topics on EM Modeling, EE2011-Engineering Electromagnetics Semester-1, and EE2011-Engineering Electromagnetics Semester-2 (Presented on 31 January 2004, "Faculty of Engineering Teaching Commendation List - Graduate" for academic year 2002/2003 in recognition for his dedication and commitment to the education of engineering students)

§        Year 2003/2004: EE5308-Antenna Engineering, EE6004-Advanced Topics on EM Modeling, and EE2011-Engineering Electromagnetics, (Presented on 10 September 2004, "Faculty of Engineering Teaching Honours List" for academic year 2003/2004 in recognition for his dedication and commitment to the education of engineering students)

§        Year 2004/2005: EE5308-Antenna Engineering, EE6004-Advanced Topics on EM Modeling, EE2011-Engineering Electromagnetics, and TE2002-Engineering Mathematics (Presented on 09 November 2004, "University Excellent Teacher Award" for academic year 2004/2005 in recognition for his dedication and commitment to the education of engineering students)

§        Year 2005/2006: EE5308-Antenna Engineering, EE2011E-Engineering Electromagnetics, and TE2002-Engineering Mathematics

§        Year 2006/2007: EE5308-Antenna Engineering, EE2011E-Engineering Electromagnetics, and TE2002-Engineering Mathematics

§        Year 2007/2008: EE2011-Engineering Electromagnetics (taking sabbatical leave at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland as an Invited Visiting Professor)