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Associate Professor

Yong Lim FOO

Associate Provost (Applied Learning)
Associate Professor
PhD (Materials Science and Engineering), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
Cluster:
Engineering
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SIT Appointments

  • Associate Provost (Applied Learning)
    – Present
  • Associate Professor
    – Present
  • Director of Programmes, Engineering Cluster
    –
  • Assistant Provost (Applied Learning)
    –
  • Director, Centre for Learning Environment and Assessment Development (CoLEAD)
    –
  • Programme Director
    –

Education

  • MBA
    Rutgers Business School , United States
  • PhD (Materials Science and Engineering)
    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign , United States
  • Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons) Materials Engineering
    Nanyang Technological University , Singapore

Achievements

  • National Day Award, The Public Administration Medal (Bronze)

Corporate Experience

  • Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Technical Education
    Present

Current Projects

  • PI, Stress corrosion cracking detection and mitigation in NEL
    – Present

    Urban Mobility Grand Challenge (UMGC) Grant - Improving Productivity of Rail Maintenance, SIT-SBST, $904k

Past Projects

  • Co-PI, Gamified micro-learning platform: An early intervention for at-risk freshmen
    –

    MOE TRF, $211k

  • Skills on Wheels
    –

    InnovPLUS Challenge -  Flame Award, $200k

  • Co-PI, A study of corrosive environment in tunnels and prediction of component life time
    –

    Land Transport Innovation Fund (LTIF) Grant,  SIT-SBST, $ 1.2m

Journal Papers

  • KH Chen, J Hobley, YL Foo, XD Su, “Wide field single metal nanoparticle spectroscopy for high throughput localised surface plasmon resonance sensing”, Lab on Chip 11, 1895 (2011)

  • XY Peng, JH Teng, XH Zhang, YL Foo, “Distortion analysis of pulsed terahertz signal measured with spectral-encoding technique”, J Appl Phys 108, 093112 (2010)

  • HG Chew, F Zheng, WK Choi, WK Dim, EA Fitzgerald, YL Foo, “Comparison of the synthesis of Ge nanocrystals in hafnium aluminum oxide and silicon oxide matrices” J Nanosci & Nanotech, 9, 1577 (2009)

  • M Lin, JPY Tan, CB Boothroyd, KP Loh, ES Tok, YL Foo, “Dynamical observation of bamboo-like carbon nanotube growth”, Nano Lett 7, 2234 (2007)

  • M Lin, JPY Tan, CB Boothroyd, KP Loh, ES Tok, YL Foo, “Direct observation of single-walled carbon nanotube growth at the atomistic scale”, Nano Lett 6, 449 (2006)

Books

  • S. M. Lim, Y. L. Foo, H. T. Loh, & X. Deng (Eds.), Applied Learning in Higher Education: Perspective, Pedagogy, and Practice. Santa Rose: Informing Science Press 2020

Teaching Modules

Aircraft Systems Engineering, BEng (Hons)

  • ASE1210 - Aircraft Materials 1
  • ASE2317 - Aircraft Materials 2

Past

  • SEM2201 - Motion Dynamics
  • PHY200 - Motion Dynamics
  • ENG4004 - Advanced Materials Technology P4
  • CME2121 - Engineering Practice
  • SIE4009 - High Performance Alloys
  • SIE6009 - High Performance Alloys
  • CE2504 - Materials Science and Engineering