Drone Technologies Track programme schedule
| Day | Time | Programme | Venue | Instructors |
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| 15-Jan (Day 1) Mon |
8.15am | Registration | Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – |
| 9.00am | Opening Speech By Prof Chong Tow Chong President, Singapore University of Technology and Design |
Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 9.10am | Welcome Speech By Dr. Hang Kim Hoo STEM Programme Manager, CPDD, MOE |
Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 9.20am | Keynote Speech – “Future of Robotics” By Mr. Kashyap Chandrasekar Director of Upstream Robotics, Dyson |
Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 9.45am | Q & A By Mr. Kashyap Chandrasekar Director of Upstream Robotics, Dyson |
Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 9.50am | Drone Technologies: Students walk back to Cohort Classroom 14 & Cohort Classroom 16. |
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| 10.00am | Workshop – Humanities Session A design brief is introduced containing an opportunity statement, workshop narrative, deliverables, rubrics, and metrics, for students to address the socio-historical and cultural context of the programme narrative within the realms of equity and empathetic design. |
Cohort Classroom 14 Cohort Classroom 16 |
Assoc. Prof. Lyle Fearnley Asst. Prof. Setsuko Yokohama |
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| 12.30pm | Lunch Break (1hr) | – | – | |
| 1.30pm | Workshop – Design Thinking Session Students are introduced to the Double Diamond design thinking framework and tools, such as, affinity matrix, storyboard, morphological matrix and c-sketch to ideate and generate potential solutions. |
Dyson-SUTD Innovation Studios | Dr. Franklin Anariba | |
| 4.30pm | End of Day 1 | – | – | |
| 16-Jan (Day 2) Tue |
9.00am | Students’ Arrival | Cohort Classroom 14 | – |
| 9.30am | Workshop – Physical World of Drones Students learn about the forces and torques that control the flight behaviour and dynamics of a quadrotor drone, and how to control the balance of these forces to make the drone fly in the air. |
Cohort Classroom 14 Multi-Purpose Hall |
Assoc. Prof. Foong Shaohui Dr. Cheah Chin Wei |
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| 12.00pm | Lunch Break (1hr) | – | – | |
| 1.00pm | Talk – “Design Thinking and Innovation at Dyson” By Mr. Sean Sabastian Manager, Robotics Research, Dyson |
Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 1.40pm | Q & A By Mr. Sean Sabastian Manager, Robotics Research, Dyson |
Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 2.00pm | Workshop – Coding World of Drones Once the students have mastered manual piloting of the drone, the next step is to program the drone to fly autonomously using visual block programming (VBP). |
Multi-Purpose Hall | Assoc. Prof. Foong Shaohui | |
| 4.30pm | End of Day 2 | – | – | |
| 17-Jan (Day 3) Wed |
9.00am | Students’ Arrival | Dyson-SUTD Innovation Studios | – |
| 9.30am | Workshop – Space-age Fabrication Technologies Students are trained in computer-aided design (CAD) using Automaker Fusion360 software and Ultimaker Cura software to aid them in 3D printing. |
Dyson-SUTD Innovation Studios | Dr. Lee Chee Huei Dr. Chandrima Chatterjee |
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| 12.00pm | Lunch Break (1.5hr) | – | – | |
| 1.30pm | SHARP Talk SHARP is SUTD’s premium research programme for highly talented students with great passion and determination for outstanding research. Discover more about this special programme from this talk. |
Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | Assoc. Prof. Dario Poletti (SMT), SHARP Director | |
| 2.00pm | Workshop – Makers Space Campus tour of Fabrication Lab (Fab Lab), SUTD Library, and Digital Manufacturing and Design Centre (DManD). |
Dyson-SUTD Innovation Studios | Dr. Lee Chee Huei Dr. Chandrima Chatterjee |
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| 4.30pm | End of Day 3 | – | – | |
| 18-Jan (Day 4) Thu |
9.00am | Students’ Arrival | Cohort Classroom 14 Cohort Classroom 16 |
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| 9.30am | Workshop – Math and Analysis of Drones Following the lessons on piloting a drone using VBP, the students learn how to design the route of the drones by re-casting the problem as a modelling problem, such as the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). |
Cohort Classroom 14 Cohort Classroom 16 |
Dr. Shubhakar Kalya Dr. Wong Wei Pin |
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| 12.00pm | Lunch Break (1hr) | – | – | |
| 1.00pm | SUTD Admissions & Pillar Showcase | Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 2.00pm | Workshop – Self Immersion Preparation for the Storyboard Pitching and Design Challenge competition. Students apply competencies learned on socio-historical contextual analysis, 3D printing, mathematical modelling, storyboarding, and drone programming and piloting. |
Cohort Classroom 14 Cohort Classroom 16 Multi-Purpose Hall Dyson-SUTD Innovation Studios |
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| 4.30pm | End of Day 4 | – | – | |
| 19-Jan (Day 5) Fri |
9.00am | Students’ Arrival | Cohort Classroom 14 Cohort Classroom 16 |
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| 9.30am | Workshop – Final Test Run Student teams make final preparations for the Storyboard Pitching and Design Challenge. |
Cohort Classroom 14 Cohort Classroom 16 Multi-Purpose Hall Dyson-SUTD Innovation Studios |
All Faculty | |
| 12.00pm | Lunch Break (1hr) | – | – | |
| 1.00pm | SUTD Pillar Discovery & Campus Tour | ASD Studio 2 | – | |
| 2.00pm | Competition – Storyboard Pitching and Design Challenge Startup company projects (student teams) consolidate all competencies learnt during the previous 4.5 days into a coherent socio-historical-cultural storyboard 3-min pitch challenge and drone programming and piloting challenge. |
Multi-Purpose Hall Dyson-SUTD Innovation Studios |
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| 4.00pm | Transition | Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 4.30pm | Closing Ceremony Game of Chance, prize presentation, closing comments and photo taking of winning teams. |
Albert Hong Lecture Theatre (LT1) | – | |
| 5.30pm | End of Day 5 | – | – |