Executive Courses
Upskilling Your Workforce through TDSI’s Executive Courses
TDSI’s Executive Courses under its Continuing Education arm look at domain-specific disciplines in systems thinking and systems engineering, as well as any in-trend/ emerging technologies, to upskill the Singapore defence workforce in line with the nation’s advocacy for lifelong learning. Embracing the digital transformation landscape today, participants will benefit from these courses, learning from subject matter experts from the defence technology community and/or academic institutions, on valuable topical knowledge and skillsets to manage real-world applications. This allows course participants to strengthen their capabilities and value-add to their employing organisations.
TDSI’s Executive Course “Military Navigation Systems Workshop” for Singapore’s Defence Technology Sector
Given the critical importance of navigation in modern military systems and operations that leverages on smart technologies, access to reliable navigation data is imperative while denying them to adversaries during military operations. The executive course on “Military Navigation Systems Workshop” aims to highlight the vulnerabilities in military navigation systems under different deployment scenarios, and share potential corresponding counter-measures. Participants from the defence technology community were appreciative of the knowledge gained from the workshop and acknowledged that the learning was highly relevant and impactful to their current field jobs/ projects. This workshop is well-recognised by the Professional Engineers Board and qualified for 6 Professional Development Units.
TDSI’s Executive Course “Systems Engineering and Analysis of Emerging Advanced Technologies for Defence Applications”
It is important for the Singapore defence forces to be at the frontier and be knowledgeable about emerging technologies for defence applications. The executive course on “Systems Engineering and Analysis of Emerging Advanced Technologies for Defence Applications” aims to present concepts and methods for engineering and analysing emerging advanced technologies, that include artificial intelligence and directed energy weapons, for defence applications. Course participants from the defence technology community have learnt and gained insights from the course that introduced concepts in complexity theory, strategic thinking, technology assessment, systems engineering and systems analysis. Course participants were appreciative that the learning gained have value-added to their current work with their primary affiliated organisations in the defence eco-system.
TDSI’s Executive Course “Generative Artificial Intelligence”
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been widely adopted in operations and work processes/ systems at the national level and in various industries. Generative AI is the latest cutting-edge technology that has been launched to extreme popularity, with progressive adoption by enterprises and industries because of its capabilities that can boost productivity and value-add decision-making, alongside many other deployment opportunities. Recognising the increasing importance of Generative AI for the defence sector, TDSI organised the executive course on this in-trend technology for the Singapore defence technology community to equip them with the fundamental knowledge of key concepts and applications of Generative AI, included algorithms such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs). Course participants learnt how Generative AI could enhance military operations, from synthetic training data generation to scenario planning and decision support systems. This course is well-recognised by the Professional Engineers Board and qualified for 12 Professional Development Units.
Integration of Energy Security and Climate Change Defence in a National Level Large-Scale System
Overview
Singapore imports most of its energy, and its use is the principal cause of global warming and climate change. This in turn changes the way we use energy. Decisions on energy security affects climate change defence and vice versa. This talk examines the integration of the two as a large-scale system in Singapore.
Learning Outcome
Course Outline
Who Should Attend
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Speakers
Prof. Lui Pao Chuen
Temasek Defence Professor
Temasek Defence Systems Institute (TDSI)
National University of Singapore
Prof Lui is the Temasek Defence Professor of National University of Singapore.
He graduated from the University of Singapore in 1965 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics. In 1966 he enlisted on a Short Service Commission in the rank of Captain in the SAF and served in Ministry of Interior and Defence. In 1971, he was awarded the first Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) postgraduate fellowship. He elected to go to the United States Naval Postgraduate School, where he graduated with a master’s degree in Operations Research and Systems Analysis.
Prof Lui has served an Adjunct Professor at the NUS Faculty of Engineering since 1990 and has taught a module, Large Scale Systems Engineering, each year. In recognition of his contributions to NUS, Prof Lui received the Teaching Excellence Award by the NUS Faculty of Engineering (2002); the NUS Distinguished Science Alumni Award (2005); and the NUS Outstanding Service Award (2007).
Prof Lui retired in 2008 after serving 41 years in MINDEF in various appointments and as Chief Defence Scientist in his last 22 years’ service. He continues to contribute his expertise professionally as member of various committees in government agencies, universities and corporations. He is a member of the Senate of MDIS and a member of the management board of the Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI) and the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) in NUS. He is a member of the steering committee for the development of Tuas Port and a member of Executive Committee for Airport Development (ECAD) and the Technology and Systems Committee of Changi Airport Group. He is a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Aviation Transformation Programme Committee (ATPC). He chairs the advisory council of the Singapore Space Technology Ltd. He is adviser of LTA on technology and chairman of the Development Projects Advisory Panel, Ministry of Finance. He chairs the board of directors of Sembcorp Specialised Construction and the management board of Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Initiative (SNRSI). He is the chairman of the Maritime Innovation and Technology (MINT) Fund Steering Committee.
Details
- 06 Apr 2022, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 1 hour
- F2F at NUS LT7A and Online via Zoom
Status
This event is now closed.