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.
Nanomaterials: Past, Present, and Future
Overview
Functionality of novel nanomaterials – including two dimensional (2D) ultrathin films, one dimensional (1D) nanowires/nanotubes, and zero dimensional (0D) nanocrystals – and their impact on society will be ultimately dictated by our ability to precisely control their structural properties, size uniformity, and dopant distribution at the atomic level.
Prof. Gradečak-Garaj’s overall research strategy is to address these key material challenges through a bottom-up approach that builds upon synthesis of freestanding nanoscale objects and their assembly into functional devices for applications in nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, and in energy harvesting and conversion. This objective is often met by designing hierarchical assemblies at different length scales and by combining different classes of materials into hybrid structures. Her approach is to use a set of experimental techniques – each carefully selected or developed in my laboratory – to directly establish processing-structure-property correlation on the nanoscale and move toward truly deterministic nanoscience.
In this presentation, we will review the recent developments in the field of nanostructured materials with special emphasis on applications in electronics and photonics.
Learning Outcome
Course Outline
Who Should Attend
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Speakers
Prof. Silvija Gradečak-Garaj
Silvija Gradečak-Garaj obtained her M.S. and PhD in Physics from the University of Zagreb and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, respectively. In 2003, she was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Prospective Researchers and spent 2 years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Prof. Gradečak started her academic career at MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2006, where she earned tenure in 2013 and Full Professorship in 2017.
Since July 2019, she is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NUS, where she served concurrently as a Director within the Office of a Deputy President for Research and Technology and more recently, as the lead PI and co-Director of the Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab. She is a member of the NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences & Engineering (NGS) and a PI within the Low Energy Electronics Interdisciplinary Research Program under the SMART centre of CREATE Singapore. Prof. Gradečak-Garaj is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, 3M Innovation Award, Inaugural 2012 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship, and Graduate Materials Council Outstanding Teaching Award, among others.
Details
- 31 Mar 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- 1 hour
- Online via Zoom
Status
This event is now closed.