Year 3 Biomedical Engineering student, Chayut Orapinpatipat, competed against 15 participants to emerge as 1st runner up in a worldwide competition held by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

The Competition was held at the Science Centre Singapore from 18 to 22 March 2013. Team Altair from NP Aerospace Electronics course design and build a small air platform to navigate an indoor obstacle course.

ECE 2013 graduate Albert Khoo won the 'Design and Build a Ruggedised Computer Competition' organised by Defence Science Technology Agency held on 22 March 2013.

On 5th March 2013, an MOU was penned between NP & IBM which marked a new strategic collaboration between IBM, one of the pioneers in Cloud Computing and NP, one of the leading polytechnics in Singapore.