Jacob Gan GK 

Associate Professor

School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Nanyang Technological University,

50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

Telephone: 67905584  e-Mail: mgkgan@ntu.edu.sg

Academic Qualifications  BE (Hons), University of Singapore 1975 ; MS, University of Michigan, 1986 ; PhD, University of Michigan, 1990

Non-Academic Qualifications CTM

Regular Undergraduate Courses he is teaching currently Engineers & Society, Engineering Mathematics 3

Regular Graduate Courses he is teaching currently Fundamentals of Precision Engineering, Prototype & Rapid Prototyping

eLearning Courses that he is offering through NTU's Centre for Continuing Education here

Other Lifelong Learning eCourses here

Current Research Interests Bio-Informatics, Bio-Diesel, Business and Engineering Ethics.

Other Interests eLearning, Public Speaking, eBooks (links 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Clubs & Societies Nanyang Brasstacks Toastmaster Club (past President), Asian Speakers Association, EDB Society, University of Michigan Alumni Association Singapore (Founder and Past President)

Fun Stuff He Has Been Doing to Put Bread on the Table

He started his apprenticeship as an EDB projects officer in 1975 after graduating from the then University of Singapore with a mechanical engineering degree.  Lured by the opportunities in Saudi Arabia, he joined a Singapore-based company to manage a cargo handling operation at Jeddah Port in 1977.  After failing to strike black-gold there, he returned to Singapore in 1978 and worked for a firm to set up and manage a manufacturing plant as its general manager until 1983 when NTU (then NTI) made him an offer that excited him and has been working with NTU ever since.  Under the sponsorship of NTI he went for his graduate studies at the University of Michigan in 1984, completed his Masters studies in 1986 and continued with his PhD studies which he completed in 1990. 

He gives talks and conducts workshops on Creativity, Probability and Statistics as well as on Children Bullying Prevention to parents and teachers.  In addition to face-to-face learning and teaching, he also has great passion for eLearning and has been developing and conducting eLearning courses, both scientific and soft-skill based courses, mainly in conjunction with Thomson Learning.