1. Double Degree Program (DDP) Sharing

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

3. Workload
ISE and Economics DDP

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. illinois, united states
Northwestern University

11. 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

12. Beijing, China
NUS-Georgia Tech Summer Programme

13. Muscat, Oman
NUS STEER Middle East 2016

14. Doha, qatar
NUS STEER Middle East 2016

15. Abu dhabi, UAE
NUS STEER Middle East 2016

16. PRISM
Self-initiated Community Project

17. Apex Mentors

18. Understanding yourself
Making The Decision

19. 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

20. EC4394 Behavioural Economics

21. EC3312 Game Theory and applications to Economics

22. EC4303 Econometrics iii

23. TIPS and advice
Running Your Race

24. Understanding Double Counted Modules

25. 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

26. 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

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

28. 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

29. Questions & Answers
Clear Your Doubts