Research!!!

QiOptiq

Personally, I have never heard of Qioptiq before till it was mentioned during our briefing on HCI Engineering Week. By the name, I have always thought it has only got to do with topic of light in physics, like experiments we do in our school that is related to light. After some read-up on QiOptiq, I feel that what we learn in school about light is so fascinating! I didn't know the concept of light could be applied in so many areas in real-life like in automotive and space-related application. Actually, I have never really like Physics as I thought that we only know how to look at equations and minimal real-life application. It seems that I am wrong, just a small topic like light could have such a big company like QiOptiq coming up with inventions and technologies that help in various sectors of economy. I am especially interested with the inventions by Qioptiq in the medical science field as I would like to venture into medicine in future. QiOptiq has many inventions in just this field like Ophthalmology and DNA analysis. I am really interested to find out how is the topic light incorporated into medical science field. Of course, there are other inventions made by QiOptiq in the defence, aerospace and industrial manufacturing sectors that has much value to the 21st century.

3M

I believe that many people have heard 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) many times, but who actually knows its full name? During the briefing for HCI engineering week, Mr Loh asked what does 3M stands for, I am stunned as I really do not know what 3M stands for even though hearing this name for many times. Just hearing 3M, everyone would directly link it to post-it notes, but there are many other items that 3M has designed. It is just that we do not actually bothering seeing all the stuffs around us, paying a little more attention to them. 3M business is really big as it covers 6 different segment in our society, with companies around the world. There is also 1 plant in Yishun, Singapore that manufactures products of 3M. 1 useful product that my cca, Robotics, always use would be the dual-lock from 3M. It helps us manage our playing field and other aspects in robotics.

GSK

GSK is a company that I have heard many times from my friend, Nicholas Lee. He loves chemistry and it is no wonder he would know GSK (GlaxoSmithKline). GSK company is involved in pharmaceutical science and chemical engineering, an aspect that I am venturing in the future! GSK has contributed much to our healthcare industry by inventing vaccines and medicine for mankind. GSK has two global manufacturing and supply sites located in Singapore too. Sciences such as Crystal Seeding and Cetrifugal force is used in producing the medicine and vaccines. One example of widely consumed medicine produced would be our Panadol.  


Life Tech

This is the first time our school is participating in Life Tech in HCI Engineering Week. After some research on Life Tech, I am really excited for the visit there. It has everything on biology! From nature biology to human biology, nothing is left out, even the latest cloning facilities could be found in life tech. One product that is common in life tech would be PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) assay. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a biochemical technology in molecular biology to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of to thousands copies of a particular DNA sequence for reading purposes. Life tech also ventures in different research in cancer, stem cell and plant sciences, hoping to have some breakthroughs in these fields to help mankind. Can't wait for the visit!