Singapore partnership brings first-class results

Northumbria’s collaborative agreement with Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore offers the chance for graduates of the Temasek Diploma in Intelligent Building Technology to enter onto the final year of Northumbria’s BEng (Hons) Building Services Engineering programme.Tay Shuang Yan, Ivy Xin Peng Wei, Tobias Li Hang and Cheng Wei were awarded second-class honours while Joshua Fong graduated with a first-class degree.

Joshua Fong said of the course: “Building Services Engineering isn’t a commonly known subject area, but the programme basically involves the study of all services such as heating, cooling, comfort, lighting, communications, lift services etc within a building. Graduates from this course use their knowledge and understanding of sustainable/renewable systems to design “green” solutions to benefit the environment.”

“I will be continuing with my Masters in Building Services Engineering at Northumbria, which hopefully will enable me to get my Chartered Engineer status after working for 3 years upon graduation.”

Programme Leader Lawrence Hughes added “It has been a pleasure to teach this group of students. It should not be underestimated that they have entered a difficult degree as it reached it most challenging stage and succeeded. I would also add that the dimension these international students bring has improved the dynamics and the discussion within class and broadened the minds of our home students.  I have seen some close friendships develop over the last year and I think these will continue long into the future.”