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TDSIans
Greetings and welcome to the
fifth
issue of TDSIans. We hope you enjoy reading it. Thank you.
The
Graduate Diploma Programme in Defence Technology and Systems (GDDTS)
Change of Acronym
To better reflect the Graduate Diploma Programme in Defence
Technology and Systems as a graduate diploma programme, the acronym
of the Programme is changed to GDDTS with immediate effect.
GDDTS 2005
Thirty eight GDDTS 2005 students completed their
GDDTS Programme and were
conferred the Graduate Diploma in Defence Technology and Systems in
February 2006. These students will receive their Diploma
scrolls at the 37th Command and Staff Course Graduation Ceremony scheduled for September 2006 at the Istana. We congratulate all graduands for this achievement. Tjhin Poh
Chung is the recipient of the Book Prize for being the
top student of the programme.
GDDTS 2005 Class Leader, Liang Tian Soon, presenting Momento to Prof Yeo Tat
Soon at end of the programme.
GDDTS 2006
The 7th GDDTS Programme, GDDTS 2006,
will commence on 3 July 2006. The Programme is expecting
about 55 students in this cohort. They are 50 MINDEF officers, 4 Singapore
Technologies Engineering Ltd engineers
and 1 Australian officer.
The
Masters Programme In Defence Technology and Systems (MDTS)
MDTS 2004
Twenty six MDTS 2004 students
were conferred the M.Sc. (DTS) degree from NUS. Two
students who had specialized in Land Systems were additionally conferred the M.Sc. (Mech Eng) degree. These
graduates will participate in the NUS Commencement
2006 on 12 July 2006.
MDTS 2005
In December 2005, the MDTS 2005 students successfully completed
the common curriculum phase in NUS. They are now in NPS for the
specialization phase.
MDTS 2005 students (Boon Chong and Kay Chuan), presenting Momento to Mr
Siak Weng Wah at end of NUS phase.
MDTS 2006
Application for the MDTS 5th Intake started on 1 October 2005.
35 candidates have been offered admission to the programme.
4 of these are international students.
Research
Four
collaborative projects with NPS on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,
Automatic Target Detection Thermal Imager and Infra Red Band Data Fusion
continued on schedule. Two projects on Antenna Design led by Prof
David Jenn were completed.
Research collaboration with Defence Science and Technology Agency,
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd, DSO National Laboratories and
NUS continue in areas of Cooperative Weapons Systems, Super Cavitation
Flow, and Design of Wideband and Multibeam Antenna Array and Antenna
Array with Integrated Multi-layer Periodic Radome.
Current Affair in
TDSI
Visit
to RMCS, SNDC and
French Institutions
A TDSI delegation visited France, Sweden and the United
Kingdom from 3 to 11 September 2005. In France, the delegation
visited the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Ingenieurs des Etudes et
Techniques d'Armement (ENSIETA) and the Ecole Navale (both located in
Brest, W France) and the Delegation General de l'Armement (DGA)
headquarters in Paris. The delegation then visited the Swedish
National Defence College (SNDC) in Stockholm, Sweden and Cranfield University Defence College of Management and Technology (DCMT)
in Shrivenham, UK.
The visit created greater
awareness of TDSI and its educational programmes in these institutions. All these institutions expressed interest in greater
collaboration and interaction with TDSI. This ranges from sending suitable
lecturers to teach in the MDTS & GDDTS programmes and short courses,
joint organization of international seminars & workshops to working on
framework agreements between the institutions to sustain collaboration
and exchanges in defence education.
At DGA, Paris.
Jean-Pierre Buleon, Director "Asia-Pacific", Directorate for
International Development (4th from right),
Gertrud Humily, Executive Director, International Education (Centre).
With Dr Flenick
Landerholm, President, Swedish National Defence College.
At Ecole Navale with Prof Christophe Claramunt, Director, Naval Academy
Research Institute.
With Prof Geoff Mays, Deputy Principal, DCMT.
With Dr Philippe Le Glas, Director, ENSIETA.
Visit by Prof James Kays
Prof James Kays, Dean of Graduate School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, US Naval Postgraduate School visit TDSI from 7 to 11 November
2005. Besides meeting TDSI management, he toured the NUS Compact
Range, CRISP and met Head and staff of ISE Dept. He also called on
Provost of NUS, DS(TT) at MINDEF, and CE DSTA, among others.
Visit by Prof Patrick Senac
Prof Patrick Senac of ENSICA from France visited TDSI on 8 December 2005.
He briefed TDSI on ENSICA's educational and research programmes.
Maritime Domain Protection Symposium
2005
Held from 12 to 14 December 2005, this joint symposium by TDSI and NPS
attracted 41 participants from NUS, NPS, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratories, the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), University of California Santa Barbara,
Australia's Defence Science and Technology Office, Defence Science and
Technology Agency (DSTA) and USA's Office of Secretary of Defence.
Two keynotes speakers, RADM (RET) Thomas Fargo and Mr Tan Peng Yam
addressed the delegates. It was followed by 25 presentations.
Visit by BG Jimmy Tan
BG Jimmy Tan, who assumed
command of SAFTI MI in August 2005 visited TDSI on 17 April 2006 to
better understand TDSI and NUS capabilities.
Visit to Systems Engineering and
Evaluation Centres
TDSI visited Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre (SEEC) at
University of South Australia from 20 to 22 March 2006. This visit
concluded with an agreement to co-host the Asia-Pacific Systems Engineering
Conference 2007 in Singapore.
Upcoming Events
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Visit by Prof Geoff Mays,
Deputy Principal, Defence College of Management and Technology,
Cranfield University from 29 May to 2 June 2006.
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Workshop on "Response
and Design of Structures Subject to Blast Loading" on 30 May to 1
June 2006.
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Visit by
Prof Leonard Ferrari, Assoc Provost and Dean of Research, NPS from 10 to
14 July 2006.
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TDSI 9th Management Board
Meeting on 28 July 2006.
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