From January 2017 onwards, ESP is hosted and supported by the following three departments (Electrical Engineering and Computing, Mechanical Engineering and Physics). All academic staff working for ESP are pooled from these departments and ESP is now jointly owned by them. Engineering Science students will read a set of core engineering science modules in the first two years that will provide a strong background in the fundamentals in engineering, science, materials, mathematics and computing. A portion of the curriculum is set aside for non-engineering modules in areas such as engineering professionalism and human relations. These are intended to equip our graduates with the knowledge to function effectively in tomorrow’s workplace. Students will undergo a 12-week research internship during the vacation period following the second or third year of their studies. In the final two years, the curriculum is flexible so that students can pursue interests in any of the following areas of specialisations. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Computational Engineering Science Photonics and Optics Energy Systems These courses are specially designed to reduce the common barriers to multidisciplinary work and bring out creative qualities. Graduates will be conferred a Bachelor of Engineering (Engineering Science) degree.

The career prospects are wide ranging from both academic and industrial R&D labs in Semiconductor & Microelectronics, Data Storage & Media, Scientific Instrumentation, Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, Computational Design and Consultancy, Renewable Energy, Analytical Microscopy and Bio-medical Imaging, Start-up Nanotechnology and other high-tech companies. For those students who wish to pursue a research career, we strongly recommend that they take up a Ph.D. degree in either a science or an engineering department. The first three cohorts of ESP students graduated in 2010, 2011 and 2012. One third of the graduating classes are reading PhD programmes in various disciplines in top notch universities such as Harvard, MIT, Yale, CalTech, Georgia Tech, Cambridge, and Duke University. The rest of the graduates find employment as engineer-scientists in research institutes such as Data Storage Institute (DSI), SimTech, Energy Research Institute and Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and private & public organizations such as Renewable Energy Corporation, LJ Energy Pte Ltd, Softsource Singapore, Zugo Photonics Pte. Ltd., Jurong Consultants, Keppel, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Micron Semiconductors, NEA, ABB and BP. A number of ESP graduates started their own companies.