With the support of the Department, ISE graduate_students have initiated a seminar series called "Meeting with ISE Alumni Series". The students will regularly invite ISE Alumni to give seminars that may or may not be academic in nature. Invited alumni may speak on their past research topics in the ISE Department, or on such issues as their present jobs, ISE job opportunities in industry, and so on. The main objective of the series is to allow research_students to meet the alumni and learn from their experiences. It also helps to bring the alumni back to NUS, forging a closer relationship between them and the Department. The organization of the seminars will be done entirely by the students, with an ISE academic staff serving as their advisor.

Dr Liu Xuan Qing, who received his PhD degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from NUS in 1994, gave the first seminar on 28 August 1999. The seminar and meeting session, which lasted for about two hours, was a great success. Dr Liu, who worked for AT&T Microelectronics after graduation and is presently ScoreCard Project Manager with the Standard Chartered Bank, was able to answer numerous questions posed by the students. After his presentation, Danny Sondakh, an MEng degree student from Indonesia, said, "I learn a lot from his talk about the value of research studies at NUS. His talk has broadened my view on the versatility of an ISE degree and the relevance of this discipline to Singapore industry."