Service-Learning Ngee Ann Polytechnic

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Diploma in Engineering (All)

Module: Engineering & Society

The module aims to imbue students with a sense of purpose as they pursue an engineering education and provide them with a moral compass in their journey as engineering professionals. The sense of purpose is encapsulated by the development and application of professional skills, within the engineering context, that would allow students to make a contribution to society. The module will develop students’ cultural quotient (CQ) capabilities and mould their mental disposition to understand and collaborate across diverse cultures/ backgrounds.

Partners: Smart Nation & Digital Government Office, Yong-en Care Centre, BCARE Sengkang, NTUC SilverCOVE Marsiling, NTUC AAH Admiralty, NTUC AAH Jurong Central Plaza, NTUC SilverACE Taman Jurong, NTUC SilverACE Boon Lay, FaithActs, Fei Yue Teck Whye 165A, Lions Befrienders Ghim Moh, Lions Befrienders Mei Ling, Lions Befrienders Tampines 494E, REACH Bukit Gombak Vista

Project: Teaching seniors how to tap into government apps

The project, developed in partnership with Smart Nation & Digital Government Office and several senior activity centres, involved the entire cohort of 1,070 Year 1 engineering students. They were tasked to teach seniors how to use up to 8 government apps and enhance their digital literacy. This could in turn help narrow the digital divide between the tech savvy and non-tech savvy individuals.

Diploma in Electronic & Computer Engineering

Module: Electronic Design Prototyping 2

This module builds upon the skills learned in the module, Electronic Design Prototyping 1. The main objectives of this module are to introduce prototyping and testing techniques, fault simulation and fault finding used in electronic project design. Students will also use CAD tools to design PCB of more complex circuits.

Partner: The Salvation Army

Project: Repairing faulty electronic items

After observing how waste is treated at an NEA incineration plant, and visiting Salvation Army where they were briefed on the repair and reuse of donated items, students helped to sort through donated electronic items and repair some of the faulty ones that could be salvaged. The experience enabled them to appreciate the harmfulness that can be caused by e-wastes and also contribute towards recycling.

Diploma in Automation & Mechatronic Systems

Module: Engineering Design Thinking

This module aims to teach students the engineering design thinking process that designers adopt to define the problem, do relevant research to acquire information, analyse knowledge and provide creative solutions to the problem in the design and planning fields. With the thinking process, problems can be framed, the right questions can be asked, more ideas can be created and the best answers can be chosen.

Partners: All Saints Home (Yishun) & All Saints Home (Hougang)

Project: Developing interactive activities to engage the elderly

Students first visited and prepared activities to engage the elderly at All Saints Home. This experience helped them to gain an understanding of and empathy towards the various stakeholders. It also set the stage for them to tap into the design thinking process to develop suitable interactive activities to engage the clients of the home.

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering

Module: Engineering Design Thinking

Partners: All Saints Home (Jurong East) & All Saints Home (Tampines)

Project: Developing interactive activities to engage the elderly

Students first visited and prepared activities to engage the elderly residents at All Saints Home. This experience them to gain an understanding of and empathy towards the various stakeholders. It also set the stage for them to tap into the design thinking process to develop suitable interactive activities to engage the residents of the home.

Partner: Beyond Social Services

Project: Developing educational and interactive activities

Students conducted a physics workshop to engage and interact with the clients of Beyond Social Services (BSS). This enhanced their understanding of and empathy towards the various stakeholders at BSS. It also set the stage for them to tap into the design thinking process to develop suitable educational and interactive activities for BSS’ clients.

Advocacy

Diploma in Network Systems & Security

Module: Information Security

This module covers management and administration of Information Security. Concepts include security threats, security incidents, risk assessment and mitigation, information security policy, procedures, guidelines and standards, security administration, physical security and configurations and administrations of current OS systems. Relevant Singapore IT Law and governance issues will also be covered.

Partner: Infocomm Media Development Authority

Project: Raising awareness of information security among seniors

Under IMDA’s Silver Infocomm Initiative, students developed a customised training programme that infused content on information security. This aimed to promote greater infocomm awareness among senior citizens who may be less tech savvy. Students conducted interviews with seniors to assess their general understanding of cybersecurity, then developed and delivered the training content. They also conducted post programme interviews to assess seniors’ understanding of cybersecurity, and to enable content refinement.

Diploma in Aerospace Electronics

Module: Human Factors

This module introduces students to human factors and how they affect performance at work. Topics include social psychology, physical environment, types of tasks, communication and human errors, with special reference to the aerospace industry.

Partners: TRANS FOCUS Centre, Anglican Care Centre (Bukit Batok), Club Heal Centre (Bukit Batok), Hannah Seniors Activity Centre, Concern & Care Society, and THK Social Service Hub @ Bukit Batok East

Project: Conducting safety talks and drone operation

Students conducted a safety talk on rules and regulations of CAAS on drone operation, and demonstrated key features of an actual drone (without flying) before engaging the elderly from various eldercare centres in simulated drone flight circuits via projectors. This aimed to provide an understanding on drone rules, regulations and safety, for elderly with an interest in drone flying as a leisure activity. In addition, the drone operation activity also helped the elderly in improving hand-brain coordination.

Diploma in Electrical Engineering

Module: Sensors & Instrumentation

The module provides students with graphical programming skills using LabVIEW and the knowledge to develop virtual instrumentation systems. Students learn the concept of virtual instrumentation, sensor technologies, data acquisition devices, and computer interfaces such as RS232, GPIB and USB.

Partners: Villa Francis Home and Lions Befrienders (Ghim Moh)

Project: Ideating improvements to mobility devices

After doing background research on issues faced by the elderly and interacting with the elderly at various Seniors Activities Centers, students learnt more about mobility issues and the need for special personal mobility devices (PMDs) such as battery powered wheelchairs, special battery powered walkers etc. They then brainstormed and ideated improvements to the designs of such devices.

Diploma in Aerospace Technology; Diploma in Marine & Offshore Technology

Module: Engineering Design Thinking

Partner: Waterways Watch Society

Project: Ideating scaled-down prototypes for use against water pollution

Students did background research and attended a talk by Waterways Watch Society (WWS) to gain insights into water pollution and conservation in Singapore, along with the challenges of keeping the waterways and beaches clean. They then tapped into the design thinking process to propose ideas and develop scaled-down prototypes that may be used in the fight against water pollution.

Diploma in Clean Energy Management

Module: Clean Energy Mini Projects 1

The module aims to guide students to build an electrical or electronic application using clean energy at the end of the module. Students are guided in each lab to learn about various practical electronics and electrical circuits, batteries and their charging circuits, microcontroller and microcontroller interfacing with sensors, relays, switches and serial and network devices.

Partner: Ground-Up Initiative (GUI)

Project: Proposing solutions to address volunteers' pain points

Students explored the surrounding of GUI, its farm lands and carpentry area to discover volunteers’ pain points during farming and carpentry work. They then proposed solutions and built prototypes of these to alleviate the challenges faced by the volunteers.

Diploma in Engineering Science

Module: Data Structures & Algorithms

This module introduces the basics of data structures including linked-list, binary search tree and sorting algorithms. Various sorting algorithms will be discussed and compared.

Partner: Dialogue in the Dark Singapore

Project: Engineering design proposals to address challenges of the disabled and elderly

Students undergo empathy challenge activities to understand the issues of disabilities and ageing. They then came up with engineering design proposals to address some of the challenges of the disabled and elderly.

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