Interactions with NTU Team (Cave Gareth) on Service Learning | A Report

Interactions with NTU Team (Cave Gareth) on Service Learning | A Report

6th June 2025  

MCC in collaboration with NTU has proposed to offer an online value‑added course titled “Modern Day Materials”.

This will be a six‑hour program delivered over six weeks (1 hour per week), designed for undergraduate chemistry students. [with equal representation from both NTU and MCC]

We hope to enroll 12 students from each institution, alongside one faculty member from each—ideally Dr. Vijay Solomon from MCC, given the course’s strong computational focus.

During the course, mixed student teams (2 from NTU + 2 from MCC) will prepare and deliver joint online presentations, which will be subsequently graded as well.

We intend to collaboratively design the course module, with a planned launch in August. It is an online course, and there is no registration fee for participants.

As part of the program, the NTU Team (12 students + faculty) will visit MCC in the following semester and we are looking forward to having a few MCC students through funding in NTU.

Additionally, the NTU team has requested access to the service‑learning program video, related photos, and published papers on the service‑learning initiative and other chemical education or teaching‑learning methods so that they can be shared with NTU students to get their attention.

I would like to formally request the sharing of those materials.

Furthermore, we wish to nominate Dr. Vijay Solomon as the official point of contact to coordinate with NTU faculty and ensure the successful implementation of this initiative.