FAQ
What are the global exposure opportunities that SHARP students can be excited about?
SHARP students who are awarded the SUTD Global Excellence Scholarship, SUTD Global Distinguished Scholarship or the SUTD Global Merit Scholarship will enjoy sponsorship and priority consideration for our overseas immersion programmes**, which include Summer Programmes and the Global Exchange Programme (GEXP) at one of SUTD’s partner institutions overseas – in Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
** Certain overseas programmes may be withdrawn, cut down or subject to change due to the occurrence of events beyond the control of SUTD.
Students can also look forward to opportunities to attend overseas conferences to present their research papers.
How do I know that I am opening the first Purchase Order (PO) issued by SUTD?
Suppliers will receive the Purchase Order (PO) via email. The notification will look like the below:
To open the PO, suppliers must click the “Process order” button. This will redirect the suppliers to the Ariba login page.
If the PO received is the first PO issued by SUTD to the supplier, the Ariba login screen will look like the below:
If the supplier already opened the first PO and the current PO received is just the succeeding one, the Ariba login screen will look like the below:
What type of design will be taught for the DAI programme?
Design thinking, design innovation, human-centric design, UI/UX, product, systems, built environment, and data-driven design will be taught in the DAI programme.
What are DAI Design studios about?
DAI has four design studios where students have diverse exposure to industry sectors and hands-on experience working on real-world data via company-sponsored projects. You will have the opportunity to engage directly with industries to look at problems, ask the right questions, collect data to analyse and come up with design solutions using AI. You will be exposed to not just AI tools and methodologies but other complementary tools as well.
In Product Design Studio, students will form teams to respond to a “Product Design Challenge” by developing, testing, and presenting a new product or business idea. Students will be introduced to a stage-based design process and be given opportunities to develop their skills in understanding user needs, ideating solutions and making prototypes through experiential learning.
Example Projects:
- Unmanned vehicle with sensors and AI for collision avoidance in a warehouse.
- An urban farming unit that changes farming conditions based on real-time data.
In Service Design Studio, students will form a team to respond to a “Service Design Challenge” by conceptualizing, designing, and implementing a new AI-based application to deliver a service. Students will learn web technologies to deploy cross-platform service solutions to various industry needs. The course is offered as a project-based course and managed in a tripartite collaboration involving SUTD, a Technology Expert company, and industries.
Example Projects:
- A chatbot that listens to a patient’s symptoms and health concerns, then guides the patient to the correct care based on its diagnosis.
- An application that analyses unstructured medical data (radiology images, blood tests, EKGs, genomics, patient medical history) to give doctors better insight into a patient’s real-time needs.
In Systems Design Studio, students will form a team to respond to a “Systems Design Challenge” by exploring the application of AI-enabled tools in large scale complex systems. Students will be introduced to planning, optimizing and management of organizational systems through simulation models.
Example Projects:
- Simulate a system of elevators – What are the best strategies to operate the elevators and minimize average waiting times.
- Simulate a delivery system – Analyse trade-offs between number of drivers; demand; average waiting time; number of orders cancelled; etc.
- Analyse the number of beds in a hospital, number of doctors and nurses, waiting room capacities, pharmaceutical inventories, etc. required during a pandemic.
Students will be conceptualizing and designing applications for the sustainable well-being and smart augmentation of an existing built environment, ranging from cities to building interiors.
Students will get to learn and apply AI-driven techniques in areas such as geospatial data analytics, building information modelling and ambient intelligent interaction.
Example Projects
- An AI application for designing adaptive spatial segregation and differentiated routing to reduce nosocomial infections in hospitals (e.g. separating infected/symptomatic COVID-19 patients and those without).
- An AI application for real-time capturing, tracking, analysis and verifying of building works in construction sites by coupling digital twins and augmented reality (AR) technologies.
How does DAI Differ from other SUTD degree Programmes?
DAI focuses on using AI to “better design” with an emphasis on application-based courses and design studios where students will work on real-world data via company-sponsored projects.
Apart from our focus in Design and AI topics, DAI has 4 design studios where students have to work on real-world challenges via company-sponsored projects. Hence, there is a lot of hands-on experiential learning at DAI.