Double Degree Program (DDP) Sharing

Hello! I am Muhammad Year 5 Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Economics

Workload ISE and Economics DDP

Semester 1 Semester 2 Special Term Year 1 20 24 4 Year 2 Year 3 25 16 (SEP) 8 Year 4 Year 5 - Did not do more than 25 MCs in semester Use of Special Term SEP

Breakdown Total MCs = 241 MCs 32 MCs more than minimum required 8 MCs due to Physics Bridging 4 MCs due to ES2331 5MCs due to Behavioural Economics 15MCs due to Economics Honours Thesis

Your Academic Life and Non-Academic Interests Planning Your Academic Life and Non-Academic Interests

Academic Life Single or Double Honours? Target Duration of Study? Economics Requirements: 60 MCs vs 101 MCs Target Duration of Study? 4-5 years Single Honours: 4 or 4.5 years (comfortable) Double Honours: 4.5 or 5 years (comfortable) Economics Specialisation? Quantitative Monetary and Financial Applied and Policy

Academic Life Integrated Honours Thesis or Separate FYP/HT? IHT – 16 MCs double counted 2 Semesters Eng FYP – 12 MCs 2 Semesters EC HT – 15 MCs 1 Semester Potential issues? Finding a suitable topic to fulfil both requirements Finding two supervisors from each department

Non-academic interests Overseas Programmes Student Exchange Programme (SEP) NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) Summer Programmes Internships Industrial Attachment (IA) Summer Internships CCAs

illinois, united states Northwestern University

Preparing for SEP Map modules early Be Flexible Do modules you don’t want graded in NUS (PH2208) Do leave some General Education modules to map 75% of modules must count towards Home Faculty (C1 or CA) Overload if possible

Beijing, China NUS-Georgia Tech Summer Programme

Muscat, Oman NUS STEER Middle East 2016

Doha, qatar NUS STEER Middle East 2016

Abu dhabi, UAE NUS STEER Middle East 2016

PRISM Self-initiated Community Project

Apex Mentors

Understanding yourself Making The Decision

What is your motivation? Widening your career opportunities Stand out from the pack Multi-disciplinary learning and challenging Wage premium? Passionate about Economics Real World Applications Intellectual Curiosity Interesting Modules

EC4394 Behavioural Economics

EC3312 Game Theory and applications to Economics

EC4303 Econometrics iii

TIPS and advice Running Your Race

Understanding Double Counted Modules

Stagger Your Modules Systems Design Project 8 MCs 2 Semesters Start in Y4 Sem 1 ENG Final Year Project 12 MCs 2 Semesters Start in Y4 Sem 2 EC Honours Thesis 15 MCs 1 Semester Start in Y5 Sem 2

Synergy of Modules There are modules that have great synergy with engineering modules Econometric modules EC3303, EC3304 are on regression and statistics Relevant to Engineering modules

Use Special Term Reduce workload in normal semesters Opportunity to go on overseas summer programme

Counting MCs and Fulfilling Requirement Near the end, the task of counting MCs becomes daunting Find your DDP coordinators from both Engineering (Ms. Lesley Poong) and Economics (Ms. Ginny Pak) Reclassify your modules in your last semester

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