Projects and internships provide opportunities for our Graduate Diploma in System Analysis (GDipSA) students to put into practice what they have learnt in the classroom and make ideas come to life in the real-world.
Bringing their ideas to fruition were students of the 51st batch. This includes a rigorous five months internship experience that culminates in an Industrial Attachment Project Presentation for three outstanding projects and one crowned with the Accenture Prize.
Shares Ms Ng Wee Wei, Accenture's Country Managing Director, who was on the panel of judges, “Technology only brings us so far. You have to think about how to apply it. Now is the best time to get into technology and to use technology to accelerate a business.”
The three SA51 teams at the Accenture Industrial Attachment Project Presentation with our panel of judges
Held on 18 October 2021, three teams shared their applications to their internship projects as they sought to drive this very transformation for their users - Two of which were in the data storage industry and another in the logistics solutions industry.
Diving into our students projects
First to share was Yitong who worked on a logistics simulation system called O2DES and its development for the Huawei Project at the NUS’ Centre of Excellence in Modelling and Simulation for Next Generation Ports. “I contributed in ways such as writing the code for its algorithm module and also built a deadlock prevention model.” Her design made significant improvements to warehouse operations efficiency and reduced operations error to save cost and losses.
As for Rebekah and Shirin, their internship experience took them to Seagate Singapore. They explained that, “the company was looking to digitally transform its in-house software solutions to a more agile development approach and move away from a monolithic architecture that uses a waterfall methodology which involved extensive manual testing and deployment.”
To rid away with these inflexibility, the duo implemented a demo project based on a micro service architecture. A new software architecture was adopted, putting in place a suite of integrated software development tools to support the DevOps CICD Lifecycle. The end result enabled CICD capability with additional features to support automated deployment flow, proper version control and test automation, to produce a more efficient quality assured software solution.
Rare earths and materials
After a thorough panel deliberation, it was Victor who ultimately emerged top in class for the Accenture Best Industrial Attachment Project. His project was also with Seagate Singapore, where he provided enhancements to the existing consumable tracking system, to deliver user requested features in areas of data analytics, reporting and consumable health profiling.
As a proprietary in-house system used in the company’s key manufacturing site, the main function of the consumable tracking system traces the incoming materials and status of the material as it is being consumed as part of the manufacturing process. “Working on something so vital to the company was an eye opener as these materials are consumed in high volumes, made of rare earths and expensive to procure,” he enthused.
Applying what has been learnt in the GDipSA programme, Victor elevated the system to avoid the use of manual spreadsheets which was previously prone to human errors. He then incorporated user-friendly search and tracking functions, complete with email notifications when change are made.
“This served as a key step to ensure quality of the product and reduce wastage, while upholding consumer expectations,” shares Victor.
While all three projects had shown the students mettle to handle unpredictable challenges of user requirements, it was clear that their respectively projects resulted in feasible IT solutions that came to life, to the satisfaction of users.
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