CAAS collaborates with SUTD to Offer Aviation Internship Opportunities to Students

The new partnership builds on an existing five-year tie-up between the two parties, which will end in March 2024. From that joint effort, it has already developed projects such as the Air Traffic Management project, which aims to create fast simulation models to aid air traffic decisions within the terminal airspace, runways, and gates. This tool, when launched in future, is designed to be able to quickly evaluate the capacity of an airport such as Changi under different weather conditions and runway closures, which will help traffic managers balance out demand and supply more effectively at any one time.

Through the new agreement, CAAS and SUTD hope to further extend existing efforts by tapping into SUTD’s well-known technology-driven, design-thinking solutioning. 

Director-General of CAAS, Mr Han Kok Juan, said, “Through this partnership, CAAS hopes to better connect education and employment, to build a talent pipeline that starts with institutes of higher learning and develop from a younger age the deep capabilities we need in emerging areas like air traffic management, cybersecurity and unmanned aircraft system technologies,”

SUTD President, Professor Chong Tow Chong added, “This extension of our partnership with CAAS reinforces SUTD’s aviation focus in education and research to better support the capability and capacity development of SUTD undergraduates, graduates, and alumni.”