This website is designed to provide you with information about the Centre’s vision, mission, objectives, staff, current activities and future plans. We hope that you will find the information useful.

The Minerals, Metals and Materials Technology Centre (M3TC) was established within the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2006, with generous financial support from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and NUS. Our mission is to contribute to the development of local and regional enterprises and industries active in the minerals, metals and materials sectors. Leveraging on the extensive and globally recognized expertise of over 300 faculty members in ten engineering disciplines, our goal is to assist industry and businesses in enhancing their technology via strategic R&D projects with M3TC.

Aside from R&D, M3TC also performs manpower training in Singapore in areas of interest to the sectors noted earlier. This is accomplished by organizing workshops, short courses and hosting relevant symposia of interest to industry. Results of our research are also disseminated via participation in international conferences and publication in peer-reviewed journals. M3TC has received much global visibility and recognition. I am pleased to add here that we have established close links with a number of esteemed institutions around the world in the mining and minerals processing areas, which is beneficial in enhancing the scope and quality of our R&D.

Within this site you will find information about our current R&D activities and future plans along with key information about our staff in M3TC. If you are interested to find out more about any of the Centre’s projects, please feel free to contact the Principal Investigators or M3TC office for details. We welcome inquiries from industry and businesses for potential consulting and/or joint R&D projects. We can also assist in designing tailor-made professional development courses or manpower training in selected areas for the minerals and metals industry.

I do hope that you will find it relatively easy to navigate this website and obtain the information you seek. We do look forward to hearing from you and welcome your feedback and suggestions for improvement. Of course, we are also eager to work jointly with industry partners to carry out high quality R&D of mutual interest .