Important Information for Course Registration

AY2021-22 Semester 1


2. STARS Planner and STARS Student User Guide

3. Personalised Date and Time for Registration is based on students’ Study Year (For Registration) in the Degree Audit. It reflects in respond to the number of academic units students have earned so far. The number of academic units students must earn to be classified to the next year of study can be found in the online Academic Unit System (AUS) under “Classification of Students”.

4. Students must register for any Failed (Grade ‘F’) or Absent (Grade ‘I’) courses when they are next offered. This can also be done during the Add/Drop Period. Appeals are to be made to the School directly, not the Office of Academic Services (OAS).

  • Semester 1 Course Registration Exercise:
    Students must register for any Failed (Grade ‘F’) or Absent (Grade ‘I’) courses from their previous semesters (if any). They are to register all uncleared courses from their previous semesters before they register for any senior year courses.
    Any uncleared courses from the previous semesters must be incorporated into the planning of courses via STARS Planner.   
  • Semester 2 Course Registration Exercise:
    Students are to register as if they have passed all courses. If they have not cleared any courses in Semester 1, they may register those repeat courses in STARS during the Add/Drop Period.
    Any uncleared courses from the previous semesters must be incorporated into the planning of courses via STARS Planner.

5. Request for overloading, waiver of pre-requisites and timetable clash

  • Overloading of the first overloaded course (one course) is done from 5.00pm – 10.00pm during your personalised date of registration.
  • Overloading beyond the first overloaded course (2nd course onwards) can be done via the Course Approval e-Form.
  • Waiving off pre-requisite can be done via the Course Approval e-Form.
  • Timetable clash is permitted only if one of the courses is a re-attempt course.
  • The School does not allow timetable clashes for both first attempt courses. Students generally must attend all classes (lectures & tutorials) for all first attempt courses.
  • Waiving off timetable clash can be done via the Course Approval e-Form.
  • The Course Approval e-Form needs to be approved by your Academic Mentor first before it is processed by the Office of Associate Chair (Academic).
  • Please rest assure that there’s still the add/drop period for you to register your courses. Therefore, ensure that you submit the Course Approval e-Form before you’re issued an e-stamp for your request.
  • You may begin to submit the Course Approval e-form on 08 June 2021.

6. For more information on the courses to register, students may refer to the Curriculum.

7. MSE Lab Courses (MS2081/MS2082/MS3081)

  • Kindly take note that students are only allow to register 1 lab course each semester. 

8. List of Major Prescribed Electives offer in AY2021


Semester 2

No. ​Course Code and Title ​Pre-requisites​ ​Teaching Faculty
​1 MS4610 Advanced BiomaterialsMS3011^,
MS4013^		Lisa Lao
Joachim Loo
​2 MS4613 Wearable Sensors for Healthcare*
Chen Xiaodong
​3 MS4620 Polymer TechnologyMS2013Terry Steele
​4 MS4621 Polymer ScienceMS1014,
MS2013		Lu Xuehong
Aravind Dasari
​5 MS4631 Corrosion Engineering​MS3013Huang Yizhong
Heng Keng Wah
​6 MS4640 Advanced Analysis of MaterialsMS3014^Dong Zhili
​7 MS4651 Thin Film Technology
Xue Can
​8 ​MS4660 Fundamentals of Intellectual Property in Materials Science and Engineering​MS4660 ​IPA Lecturer
​9 MS4663 Engineering Solutions by Design Thinking
Tan Lay Poh

^ Co-requisite i.e. can be taken concurrently.

* For students who are interested to take up MS4613 in AY2020 Semester 1, pls note that the number to register this course is very limited due to the limited of resource. It would be on the basis of first come, first taken. Please email to [email protected] for the registration and the School will register the course for you manually. This course covers an interdisciplinary knowledge spanning from material science, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering to electrical engineering. Hands-on device fabrication experiments and group project design, report and presentation are required.

9. List of Indexes for Non-MSE course code

  • ET0001 - 15601
  • GC0001 - 15600
  • HY0001 - 15602
  • ML0003 - 15603
  • ML0002 - 15604
  • HW0288 - 15201/15202/15203/15204/15205
  • MH2811 - 15101/15102/15103/15104/15105
*MSE students are only allowed to register the indexes listed above for the courses indicated.

10. AY2122 Matriculated Freshmen

  • Courses for AY2122 Semester 1 will be pre-registered by the Office of Academic Services.
  • You are not allowed to drop any pre-registered courses but allowed to change index of the allocated courses.
  • Freshmen who would like to drop any pre-registered courses, please email your request to Ms. Katrina Chang ([email protected]).
  • Students who wish to Add/Drop electives (UE and GER-PE) into waitlist may continue to do so on 25 Jun 2021 (assigned timeslot) or from 5.00pm to 10.00pm daily on day of registration, Friday, 25 Jun 2021.