Change is in the air for the Electrical Engineering (EE) programme. Starting from academic year 2010/11, a revised curriculum will be offered to all first year students admitted into the Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) programme. Hard work by our faculty members over the last year has enabled us to introduce the new curriculum this August.

Three ECE students had the opportunity to showcase some of their work on electronics to groups of enthusiastic upper secondary and pre-university students at the launch and briefing session of 'Electronics for the Community' on 31 March 2010. These innovators wowed the crowd with demonstrations of how their work could be applied to help the elderly.

In one to two years, heart patients will be able to monitor their heart condition on-the-go and send ECG (electrocardiogram) results to their doctors remotely via mobile phone. This improvement in healthcare services will be made possible by a revolutionary 450 nanowatts fully integrated programmable interface chip, ECG-on-Chip, developed by a team of researchers led by ECE's Assoc Prof Lian Yong.

A team of researchers led by ECE's Asst Prof Aaron Danner has been creating photorealistic images of metamaterials in action. The most intriguing of these are invisibility cloaks. Invisibility devices are hard to make. Real materials have an index of refraction of approximately 1 < n < 2.4. Some perfect cloaking device designs require materials with an index of refraction of approximately infinity!

In this inaugural issue, we are very honoured to be able to feature an email interview with one of our distinguished alumni, Mr Lee Kok Choy. Mr Lee is the President of TECH Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd. He holds a Master of Engineering Degree and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) Degree from the National University of Singapore.

With a dream to make a positive impact in the lives of those who had lost a lot to HIV, I embarked on my journey to work for Living Positive Kenya soon after finishing my final exams at NUS. LPK is a not-forprofit, non-political, non-religious organisation located in the slums of Ngong Division, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. This community-based organisation strives to make positive and sustainable changes in the lives of HIV positive women and their families.

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