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On the 31st Jan 2007, Republic Polytechnic and Agilent
Technologies jointly launched the RP-Agilent Wireless Solutions Lab in Republic
Polytechnic’s campus. This joint laboratory between Republic Polytechnic (RP)
and Agilent Technologies marks an important milestone in RP’s journey to
establish itself as a leading R&D educational institution in educating the
students, building its capabilities and assisting the industry in wireless
systems technology development. This lab will serve as a fully integrated
wireless system platform for the design, modeling, simulation, characterization,
verification and testing of advanced wireless systems. This is the launch of the
first Agilent Technologies fully integrated wireless laboratory with an
Institute of Higher Learning in South Asia.
The event was graced by Guest-of-Honour, Mr. Peter Tan,
President & Managing Director, Asia Operations Flextronics Technology (S) Pte
Ltd; Chairman, School of Engineering Advisory Committee, Republic Polytechnic. A
collaboration agreement was signed by Mr. Fong Yew Chan, Director of the School
of Engineering, Republic Polytechnic and Mr. Dennis Au, Vice President for South
Asia Pacific, Agilent Technologies. Witnessed by RP’s Principal & CEO Prof Low
Teck Seng and Mr. Peter Tan, the landmark partnership aims to enhance RP’s
academic standing and offerings, undertake further cutting-edge research in
technology development and provide value-added services to the industry, in
particular to the small and medium-sized enterprises through training and
services.
As part of the launch programme, students from School of
Engineering, Republic Polytechnic presented their learning experiences in using
the state of art facilities of this joint laboratory. Finally, the students also
demonstrated a series of projects at the joint laboratory to the guests. The
demonstrations include WLAN Signal Creation, WLAN Transmitter Signal Analysis,
RF Filter and Amplifier test and measurement, and GSM/3G Handset Connectivity
testing.
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