The annual SkillsFuture Festival to promote lifelong learning was hosted by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) this year on 23 July. Riding on the theme of ‘Design for the Future Economy’, the single-day event featured 53 learning workshops and talks, with SIT faculty staff sharing their expert insights on thinking and learning.

Jointly launched by SIT, Enterprise Singapore and JTC in April 2022, FoodPlant, Singapore’s first shared facility for small-batch food production, has garnered interest from various food manufacturing players. One of them is SGProtein, a Singapore-based meat analogue manufacturer, who has partnered SIT and FoodPlant since 2021 through a series of student projects, Continuing Education & Training (CET) courses and manufacturing collaborations.

Professional requirements compelled 36-year-old electrical engineer Loo Yee Chye to upskill. In the process, he discovered how going back to university was a boon to his daily work and long-term aspirations.

As an electrical consultant running his own start-up, Poh Chye Wei has to stay at the forefront of the industry’s changing landscape. Inspired by his father, an engineer in the power sector, find out how attending continuing education courses from SITLEARN continues to give Chye Wei a leg up in contributing to his industry.

He may have already traded in his student card for a staff pass, but SIT alumni and staff member Seaw Ker Boon chose to head back to the classroom to become a student once again. The aspiring software architect shares why he attended the Machine Learning courses under the SITLEARN programme.

Enrolling in SITLEARN’s Robotics Fundamentals and Advanced Robotics courses to supplement a module she was taking at school, Monisha Joy Gomez shares how attending these courses has been enriching in both academia and real-life.