Imperial joins elite Singaporean scholarship scheme

Imperial has joined a prestigious engineering programme designed for some of Singapore's very best students. The Nanyang Technological University's Renaissance Engineering Programme (REP) selects the university's 50 top engineering students to be trained as the "Engineering Leaders of Tomorrow". The REP scholars spend four and a half years on an integrated programme that combines the study of engineering. technology, business, economics and entrepreneurship, graduating with both a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Science in Technology Management. The scholars spend a year abroad, with Imperial set to welcome 20 REP scholars in 2014 across eight engineering departments: Aeronautics, Computing, Chemical, Electrical & Electronic, Materials, Civil & Environmental, Mechanical, and Bioengineering. Only one other institution, the University of California at Berkeley - like Imperial, in the world top ten - is a member of the elite programme. On 13 November Imperial signed an agreement with NTU confirming its participation in the scheme.