New SIT engineering degrees pivot away from traditional way of learning

Full-time students will master key skills tied to professional role via ‘learning blocks’

- Elisha Tushara

Full-time students entering the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) from the new academic year in September 2025 can pursue engineering in a novel way.

Under two new engineering degree programmes, students will master key skills relevant to a professional role in real engineering practice via “learning blocks”.

For example, in the four-year electrical and electronic engineering honours degree programme, a learning block could comprise skills related to semiconductor manufacturing.

Students would build skills in areas such as semiconductor packaging and reliability assessment, as well as semiconductor devices fabrication technology.

Each learning block, which takes four months to complete, includes a project based on industry problems for students to demonstrate what skills they have acquired.

This is different from the traditional structure of degree courses, where students typically learn the basics in their first year, and concepts become progressively more difficult each year before they take on a final-year project.

The second engineering honours degree programme to be taught this way is infrastructure and systems engineering.

Students will complete about six learning blocks during each of these four-year degree programmes.