The SIC is a key strategic pillar for the development and implementation of innovative initiatives to create a new service mind-set among staff and students. It is equipped with the latest technology such as a panoramic screen and real-time video-capturing systems to create a totally new experience in service training. The videos are annotated using ITE’s in-house developed software, iDe’Lite® - a service training tool recognised as one of the Innovations of the Year by the US League for Innovation in the Community College in 2009.

The MDC features staff and students’ project works in Multimedia Technology, Digital Audio & Video Production and Info-comm Technology for Multimedia. This set-up is primarily to raise staff and students’ skills-sets to industry levels through an authentic learning environment. The real-life facilities are made possible through ITE’s collaborations with clients and industry on joint projects. The MDC also encompasses facilities supporting the entire workflow of a typical multi-media production including a display area, a 3D Screen Theatre, a Video Production Studio, an Audio Recording Studio, a Video Editing Room and a Think Box. There is also an Adobe Resource Centre, which was set up in collaboration with Adobe Inc. & Certiport Singapore.

This 1,200m2 centre houses a Display Hall and three Development Centres to promote innovation and cross-disciplinary application development. The display hall is designed to host promotional activities such as student project exhibitions and technological product road shows. It allows students to learn from peers and for industrial partners to showcase technologies and host technology transfer activities.

CoTAR is also adequately-equipped to support mechanical design, intelligent control and automation development. This one-stop facility enables staff and students across different disciplines to interact with and consult one another. Projects in the areas of robotics and clean and green energy applications are showcased here.

Named after herbs and spices that are often used in the fine-dining cuisines, these purpose-built demonstration kitchens are set-up to enable students to view cooking demonstrations via projector screens. This is where our culinary students learn the basics in cooking before they move to the training kitchens for their practical lessons.

This is a purpose-built training kitchen with a capacity for 20 students. They are equipped with workstations complete with burners, ovens, under-counter chillers and heating salamanders.

An added technology is Easi-pos, a system wiring the kitchen with cameras and monitors to complement the learning experience for students. The training kitchen enables students from the Nitec in Culinary Arts and the Technical Diploma in Culinary Arts to have hands-on kitchen practice.

Pâtisserie is the pastry training kitchen. Together with the chocolate room, Fraise, it makes up the rest of the training kitchens.

At Pâtisserie, the Nitec in Pastry and Baking students are taught the finer points and skills in cookie and pastry making. The adjacent “Fraise” provides facilities for students to do research and test new recipes, which include breads, chocolates and confectionary products.

Amber@West is a fine-dining training restaurant serving French cuisines and sits up to 70 diners in its main dining area and two private rooms. Students from the Culinary Skills (Western) course hone their culinary cooking skills here by preparing soups, appetisers, main course dishes, desserts and beverages.

Similarly, students undertaking the Pastry and Baking course refine their skills by baking and making breads, pastries, cakes, and chocolates for patrons. The restaurant guests are served by students from the Nitec in Food & Beverage Operations course.

To engage our students in authentic learning, a Li-Ning retail store was set-up on campus. The set-up is an emulation of a retail boutique, and it carries an array of sporting goods and merchandises bearing the Li-Ning brand, a leading sports brand provider from China. This store provides practical retail expertise and knowledge of a leading sports brand for our students and prepares them for the industry.

All retail students on the retail program go through their training in the store. Training encompasses day-to-day operational tasks such as cashiering, inventory management and price tagging. With this given opportunity to sell directly to end consumers, our students are able to further hone their retail skills by picking up the product knowledge, selling techniques, retail functional duties and analyse the effectiveness of sales promotional activities.