Topic Synopsis (SGUS Chemical Manufacturing)

1. Certificate in Communication and Interpersonal Skills

Topic 1: Mindset Transformation for Workplace

This workshop incorporates insights, methodologies and practical approaches in SP’s 4-

T Mindset Transformation model to help participants manage change and embrace
innovation. The contents are designed to develop the mindset, skills-sets and behaviours
(practices) to enable participants to learn, adapt and improve by acquiring relevant updated
or new skills relevant for the workplace.

Topic 2: Intergenerational Communication

Individuals and managers everywhere must now navigate and cope with the confluence of
different needs, expectations and age span present in the modern workplace. But does the
multi-generational workforce equate to more opportunities or challenges? Should we pop
the champagne or pull our hair out at this new development? ‘Intergenerational
Communication’ examines the value of having multi-generational team members in terms of
the strengths and challenges of working with people from different age groups. It covers the
expectations from different age groups, by exploring individual personalities and their
preferred work styles. Broad strategies will be introduced to build effective multi-
generational teams at the workplace.

Topic 3: Emotional Intelligence (EQ) for Career Decision Making

This 2 days’ workshop is an enhanced training in which participants will acquire job-seeking
related skills, capabilities and the ability to expand employment opportunities.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) facilitates career decision-making process and leads to decisions
that can achieve greater satisfy career-related interests, values, and aspirations. Emotions
experienced during this process have implications for the perception of risk related to
specific career options, the kind of self-exploration individuals will engage in, and how
information related to career choice will be processed.

Through EQ, participants will be able to cope and learn to manage one’s self-awareness
which affect their overall well-being and decision making.

Topic 4: Digital Confidence for Communication and Collaboration

This course focuses on using various digital tools for effective online communication and
collaboration in the workplace. Participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills
to plan and execute a productive online communication and collaboration experience.

Participants will be equipped with the tools to evaluate various digital tools for online
communication and collaboration; practise using digital tools; appreciate the elements of
effective digital storytelling, and apply these digital tools at the workplace.
2. Certificate in Introduction to Analytics, Cyber Security, AI and Blockchain

Topic 1: Fundamental Data Analysis Using Excel 2016

The objective of the course is to equip learners with relevant skills to use Excel for the
purpose of organize and analysing data for visual presentation and improve decision making
in business development.

By the end of the course, learner will have:

• An understanding of how to apply most commonly used statistical and lookup

functions;
• The ability to gather data and organize the data for analysis in business;
• The know-how on how to generate and interpret charts;
• Be able to build dashboards using PivotTables and PivotCharts; and
• Skills in using Excel What-If Analysis and Data Analysis tools for generating different
scenarios of business environment and aiding decision making.

Topic 2: Essential Statistical Analysis

The course aims to equip the participant with the following:

Knowledge and Understanding: An understanding of the main basic principles for preparing
data for statistical analysis; carry out and interpret statistical analysis such as exploratory
analysis and testing for differences and associations.

Intellectual skills: Skills in problem solving, data analysis and evaluation methods through
lectures, practical, and independent reading.

Practical skills: Skills in using social science datasets and practical experience of sampling and
data analysis including using software (Excel or Minitab Express).

Transferable skills and personal qualities: Data handling, interpretation and reporting of
statistical analysis. Social statistics and data analysis skills are highly in demand in the labour
market. This will also aid the student in the development of their communication and team
working skills.

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Organize, manage and present data

• Use and apply basic specific statistical methods to infer data, such as estimation,
testing for difference and association.
• Use appropriate statistical software for data analysis
• Analyse and interpret statistical output and charts.

Topic 3: Visual Analytics using Power BI

The course aims to equip the participant with the following:

Knowledge and Understanding: An understanding of how a dashboard works; its advantages

and disadvantages and how it will be useful at workplaces.
Intellectual skills: How to apply the knowledge received during the course in developing the
dashboard and using DAX functions, filters etc.

Practical skills: Participants will be developing their own dashboard. This exercise will enable
them to show their creativity, skills obtained from the course and a satisfaction from
attending the Power BI course.

Transferable skills and personal qualities: The knowledge and skills acquired from this course
can be used at workplaces especially for those involved in KPI reporting, dashboard
development or someone who have regular management meetings.

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Upload data & and create data models

• Use DAX functions to enhance dashboards
• Associate links between variables for visual and descriptive analytics
• Find hindsight and insights from dashboard

Topic 4: Cyber Security for Non-IT Professionals

The objectives of the course is to create awareness and understanding of common cyber
threats, both at home and at work. Typical mitigation methods will be discussed to help
participants make better use of the available cyber security tools to protect themselves
against cyber adversaries.

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Relate what is Cyber Security what are at stake
• Examine common threats (e.g. Phishing, malware)
• Use common mitigation methods
• Use basic wireless and smartphone security
• Outline security related laws (e.g. PDPA, CMA)

Topic 5: Introduction to Blockchain

This course aims to equip participants with a strong fundamental knowledge on Blockchain
technology and educate them on the underlying mechanisms that make up a blockchain.
Participants will also be familiarized with certain cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin to augment
their understanding of Blockchain Technology.

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Explain the fundamental principles of Blockchain Technology.
• Describe and appraise the encryption technology used in Blockchain.
• Develop a crypto currency wallet and complete a transaction.

Topic 6: Introduction to AI and Machine Learning

This course aims to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The
course focuses on learning how to apply AI and ML to solve real-life problems. Through
practical sessions, participants will experience the setting up and use of a simple machine
learning tools that do not require coding.
 Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
• Illustrate the project workflow in a machine learning project
• Classify and frame industry problems as supervised learning or unsupervised learning
problems
• Select suitable machine learning algorithms
• Use online/cloud-based machine learning tools

3. Certificate in Essential and Emerging Skills for Employability

Topic 1: Getting ready for Your Next Job

This course equips participants with the essential job search skills, knowledge and tools that
will allow them to present themselves positively on paper, in person and on professional
networking sites.

Participants will learn how to craft resumes that get the attention of prospective employers
and recruiters and pivot their experiences to succeed and leave a good impression at job
interviews (face-to-face or digital). This course also helps jobseekers to get started on using
the popular professional networking site, LinkedIn, to create a professional brand for job
search and networking.

Topic 2: HR for Non-HR Professionals

The 1-day workshop will introduce participants to what Human Resource Management is
about, key Human Resource functions and how it impacts business success. Using an
interactive approach, participants will gain a better understanding and exposure of the HR-
related issues that they may face as a manager or employee spanning recruitment,
development, engagement and separation from the firm.

Topic 3: Finance Fundamentals

A basic knowledge of finance is essential for any non-financial professionals to function

effectively in his/her current capacity. The ability to understand finance is not only useful as a
life skill, but a much needed requirement for non-financial professionals occupying or about
to assume a greater leadership role in the organization.

The 1-day course allows participants to:

• Interpret financial information correctly for decision-making
• Understand the impact of your decisions and actions (or non-action) on the “bottom-line”
performance of your organization
• Bridge your communication gap with colleagues from the finance department
• Understand the common yardsticks used in project evaluation

Topic 4: Design Thinking for Business Innovation

Businesses, social entrepreneurs, and other innovators have used human-centered design
for decades to create solutions for many different types of challenges. This workshop will
teach you the human-centered design process so you can be more people-centric when
problem solving.
 In this two day workshop, tools such as Deep User Interview, Persona, Gmap and Rapid
Prototyping will be introduced to identify and execute opportunities for growth and
innovation.

Topic 5: Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation is the application of technology that allows employees in a

company to configure software or a “robot” to capture and interpret existing applications
for processing a transaction, manipulating data, triggering responses and communicating
with other digital system. This course will show how businesses can automate some of the
internal process to bring about an improvement in productivity and get employees to move
up the work value chain. This 1 & ½ day course aims to equip participants with the skills to
easily create useful RPA scripts to automate their own desktop processes, without coding or
programming knowledge. They will learn how to achieve this.

Topic 6: Digital Marketing with Personal Branding

This course introduces students to tools for establishing a personal brand online and
importance of establishing digital marketing strategy to promote their own personal brand.

4. Certificate in Sectoral Fundamentals for Manufacturing Science

Topic 1: Chemical & Biosafety

This topic aims to provide students with knowledge such as risk groups; risk assessment;
handling of Biohazardous materials and chemical waste; storage and disposal of biohazards.
Laboratory design, safe practices and containment equipment of the four biosafety levels,
routes of transmission and decontamination are taught. In addition, students have to
examine the implications of local regulations to laboratory operations such as the Workplace
Safety and Health Act (WSHA) and the Biological Agents and Toxin Act (BATA).

Topic 2: Instrumental Analysis

This topic aims to provide students with practical laboratory skills and theoretical knowledge
to perform chemical analysis using analytical instruments such as gas and liquid
chromatograph, ultra-violet visible, infra-red spectrophotometer, etc. It provides students
with a capability for problem solving, independent thinking and innovation so that they can
work effectively in research teams and/or in the industry on life science or chemical analysis.

Topic 3: Materials & Energy Balance

This topic covers principles of material and energy balances. It enables learners to perform
material and energy balances on common unit operations of chemical processes. Learners
will apply the principles through hands-on sessions using small-scale pilot plant, process
dynamic simulation software and process design simulation software.

Topic 4: Heat & Mass Transfer

This topic covers the fundamental principles and processes of heat and mass transfer, as
well as their application in the process industry.
 Topic 5: Microbiology

This topic aims to provide students with basic understanding of microbiology. The
methodology used in the study of microorganisms will be taught and reinforced during the
practical for students to acquire bench skills in aseptic techniques. In addition, students will
be given an overview of the importance of and use of microbes in the food industry, in
treatment of environmental oil spills and bioremediation, geochemical life cycles and human
diseases.

5. Certificate in Job Specialisation for Chemical Manufacturing Specialists

Topic 1: Thermodynamics

This module covers principles of thermodynamics for steady and unsteady state systems.
Learners would be able to derive relationships that quantitatively describe the
transformation between different forms of energy on a macroscopic scale, and enable them
to link the effects of thermodynamics to various process operations.

Topic 2: Chemical Reaction Engineering

This module applies chemical engineering principles in the area of chemical reaction kinetics,
chemical reactor operation. In chemical reaction kinetics, factors affecting the rate of
reaction are explained, modelled and applied in industrial contexts. Reactor design
compares and contrasts various types of industrial reactors. In addition, concepts of heat
effects on reactor design and operation, catalysis and catalytic reactor design are
introduced.

Topic 3: Separation Processes

This module covers design and operation of classical and advanced separation processes
that are commonly found in the chemical industry. Learners will be attuned to the complex
relationships between various process parameters and gain competence in the operation
and troubleshooting of these processes and their associated equipment.

Topic 4: Fluid Mechanics

This module covers the fundamental principles and processes of fluid flow rotating
equipment, as well as their application in the process industry.

Topic 5: Process Control

This module covers the applications of control strategies (classical & advanced) and
technologies to equip learners with up to date knowledge and skills to control automated
systems in the process industry. Learners will be equipped with relevant knowledge and
skills to monitor, control and troubleshoot automated processes in a safe manner.

6. Practicum
It provides opportunities for learners embark on an industry project either in-house or in an
attachment to a company.