| The
                                        MIT Club of Singapore provides an avenue
                                        for interaction and collaboration between
                                        SMA students, Alumni and Fellows. It organises
                                        social events and forums throughout the year,
                                        giving professionals and entrepreneurs a
                                        chance to create networking ties. It provides
                                        a valuable forum for students and SMA professors
                                        alike to learn more about the actual working experiences
                        of these professionals. The Club also shares SMA’s
                        aims of creating a research hub of talented students and
                        to develop new and dynamic engines of growth by nurturing
                        innovators. 
                        The MIT Club of Singapore offers affordable membership rates
                  to students and alumni to enjoy many of the Club’s
                        privileges. In addition to that, the Club has contributed
                        to student book prizes for the past few years.                                        
                                                                
                        
                                          Workshop 
                        SMA and the SMA Alumni Club (SMAAC) jointly organised the
                        SMA Innovation Seminar on 30 August 2003 at the NUS Engineering
                        Auditorium. Dr Gang Zou and Mr Howard Tam from Applied Materials
                        and 3M respectively shared their experiences and knowledge
                        on innovation with SMA students and alumni as well as postgraduate
                        students from the Engineering, Science and Computer Science
                        faculties of NUS. This was followed by a dialogue session
                        where informal exchanges took place.                                      
                                                              
                                   |  | Since 2000, an
                                      annual gala dinner, jointly organised by
                                      SMA and the Club, has been held in conjunction
                                      with the SMA Annual Symposium. The event
                                      has been well attended by the faculty,students and alumni of MIT and SMA. It has featured significant
                      keynote addresses and speeches by MIT speakers, including
                      President Charles Vest, Provost Robert Brown, Professor Daniel
                      Wang, Professor Richard Schmalensee and Professor Thomas
                      Magnanti.
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