This diploma is an exciting course offered by the School of Architecture and the Built Environment.
Water and environmental technologies are emerging and high growth industries in Singapore. In January 2006, the government established the National Research Foundation to provide funding of $330 million for strategic R&D initiatives to promote the growth of the environment and water sector. Globally, Singapore has plans to collaborate with other countries in water technology including wastewater treatment, reverse osmosis and desalination. The emerging economic giants of China and India are facing monumental environmental challenges in their bid to grow their economies and advance the living standards of their people. It is estimated that the Asian environmental engineering market alone (excluding Japan) is worth $37 billion a year and has the potential to triple to $105 billion by 2010.
Today, graduates from polytechnics are expected to be versatile and able to work in a cross-disciplinary environment. The course will equip students for a career in such an environment as it is a multi-disciplinary programme conceived with inputs from the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Singapore Polytechnic's Centre for Applications in Environmental Technology.
Students will have access to the latest equipment in laboratories under the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, School of Chemical and Life Sciences and School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
