THE fourth university here will be named the Singapore University of Technology and Design, or SU for short, and will take in the best and brightest students in the country and region when it opens in 2011.
It will start small, with a cohort of up to 500 undergraduates for the first three years, but this will gradually be increased until it reaches 4,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students.
SU's president will be the former engineering dean at the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor Thomas Magnanti, 64.
Prof Magnanti is familiar with Singapore, having taught with the Singapore-MIT Alliance in the late 1990s. He was also the director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (Smart) Centre.
He will head SU for a three-year term, during which he will be on leave from MIT.
The university will offer four degree programmes: Architecture and sustainable design, engineering and product design, engineering systems and system design, and information engineering and design. (see below) All will be four-year courses.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times
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