Transform The Way You Learn
From firing up engineers’ passion for Design of Experiments (DoE) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) to intriguing them about how relevant these seemingly-difficult concepts can be in daily life, Thinksmart aspires to do more than just ensuring our workshop participants acquire technical know-how.


Transform The Way You Learn
From firing up engineers’ passion for Design of Experiments (DoE) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) to intriguing them about how relevant these seemingly-difficult concepts can be in daily life, Thinksmart aspires to do more than just ensuring our workshop participants acquire technical know-how.
About Us

Thinksmart is the brainchild of ex-engineers with more than 20 years of combined experience in the semiconductor industry. Driven by our love for anything technology-related , as well as creative training methods honed over the years of interacting with young engineers, Thinksmart was born in 2006.
Knowledge improvement with problem solving skills mastery has always been our coaching focus. And, we never lose sight of the importance of developing participants into critical thinkers and good communicators.
We believe strongly in unlocking every participant’s intrinsic motivation in learning before imparting them with the metacognitive awareness to unlearn old habits while relearning new ones. We aim to have every participant in our programs unlearn and relearn in a continuous, self-directed manner so that each of them eventually acquires the growth mindset that can positively impact your organization.
Our Trainers

Yalin Quah
Education/professional background:
- Bachelor of Science, 2nd Upper Honours (Chemistry), National University of Singapore
- 4 years engineering and manufacturing experience at TECH Semiconductor (now Micron)
- 4 years process engineering experience at Chartered Semiconductor (now GlobalFoundries)
- 4 years plasma etch equipment marketing experience at Lam Research Singapore
- 3 years enquiry-based teaching experience at Temasek Polytechnic, Applied Science School
- 18 years interactive adult learning facilitation in Wafer Fabrication Processes, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DoE), Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) & Technical Report Writing.

Pauline Low
Education/professional background:
- PhD in Chemistry, National University of Singapore
- 6 years enquiry-based teaching experience at Temasek Polytechnic, Applied Science School
- 4 years process engineering experience in nickel plating at Hewlatt Packard
- 15 years interactive adult learning facilitation in Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DoE), Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) & Technical Report Writing.