Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University (Abbreviated NTU; ??????; abbreviated: ??; Malay: Universiti Teknologi Nanyang) has a 2 km² campus in Jurong, in the south-western part of Singapore, some 25 km from the city centre. This is the Yunnan Garden Campus. The original part of the campus was built in 1986, and the campus buildings are laid out on a master plan drawn up by world famous architect Kenzo Tange.

Related Topics:
Malay - Jurong - Singapore - Kenzo Tange

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In November/December 2000, National Institute of Education (NIE) shifted into its new, state-of-the-art, $400 million campus at the NTU grounds.

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The campus is well-equipped with modern facilities for teaching and research. Members of the University community study and work in state-of-the art and well-equipped laboratories, lecture theatres and tutorial rooms. Video-conferencing facilities are increasingly being used. Seminars and lectures are supported by facilities that allow multi-media presentations and simultaneous communication between different lecture theatres and venues.

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Staff and students live in comfortable quarters and residential halls and have access to an wide range of leisure and recreational facilities.

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The University is also actively pushing many applications onto the World Wide Web. The University is connected to the Internet and all the facilities and resources available over the Internet are accessible by anyone on the campus network. The large campus network, which links together all computing systems on the campus, is managed by the University's Centre for IT Services (CITS).

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To supplement the fixed line campus network, NTU has implemented a campus-wide wireless network by the end of 2000. This high-speed wireless network, capable of a transfer rate of up to 11 megabytes per second, enables NTU staff and students equipped with mobile devices such as notebooks, PCs and PDAs to access all networked services from practically anywhere on the campus without the need of a hardwired network connection.

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