In Sai Duan, a highland village near Sapa in northern Vietnam, smoke once filled a home every time meals were cooked. It lingered in the air and made daily life harder than it should be. So #NTUsg Renaissance Engineering Programme students worked alongside the community to design and install a chimney system that redirected the smoke outside. The difference was immediate. Clearer air. A brighter kitchen. Residents who could finally breathe easier. But the impact went beyond infrastructure. To support sustainable tourism, the team created bilingual board games to bridge language barriers, designed an information wall to share the village’s cultural heritage, and ran social media workshops so the community could tell their own stories to visitors and the wider world. “It was a humbling experience where we worked with locals to improve village infrastructure... It strengthened my understanding of global issues and the importance of community service,” shared student Owen. Today, the work continues as the team channels that same spirit of purposeful engineering and cultural partnership into new community projects in Bali. Happy #WorldEngineeringDay! #NTUsgEducation #NTUsgInternational
