A word from the Director — The Catalyst: IEx Project Collection

IEx is NUS College’s two‑year, cohort‑wide capstone course in which interdisciplinary student teams partner with community stakeholders to design, research, and implement sustained community projects.  Over two years, students are encouraged to experiment, iterate and learn by doing: teams design context‑sensitive solutions, and reflect critically on impact and ethics as part of rigorous assessment and supervision.

Launched through a collaborative effort of faculty, programme administrators and professional staff, IEx has been established as NUS College’s signature capstone that advances the college’s mandate to “break open the classroom,” bringing sustained, community‑facing learning to the heart of our curriculum. From the outset the programme was co‑designed across departments—lecturers, administrators and academic support teams worked together to build credit‑bearing seminars, coordinated fieldwork systems, and assessment practices that enable genuine student autonomy while safeguarding ethical and academic standards for partner communities.

The IEx Project Collection is our public archive of project summaries, student reflections and multimedia. It is designed to surface how creativity, civic commitment and disciplined inquiry come together in practice—so that you can see how learning translates into real, community‑centred outcomes. We invite you to explore the collection, listen to student voices, and join the conversation: your attention, questions and support help sustain meaningful partnerships and strengthen the kinds of learning that serve society.

Dr. Julius Bautista

Director, Impact Experience Project