Dean’s Overview
T he 2022–2023 Academic Year for the Faculty of Engineering (FOE) marked the return, for the first time since the onset of Covid-19, of full face-to face delivery of lectures, laboratory exercises and practical components of courses and saw the Faculty of Engineering (FOE) continue to effect changes to the curricula of all four of its Bachelor of Science degree programmes as a part of the ongoing endeavour to continuously assess and improve course content, remain in step with industry standards, bring them in alignment with recommendations from international accreditors ABET, while maintaining the teaching and learning objectives of the Faculty. The FOE’s intent to create a world class teaching and research facility; forging strong synergies with our industrial and commercial partners is still in focus. The Faculty’s outreach and growing impact in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region resulted in an increase in the total number of applications to the Faculty in Academic Year 2022/2023 with a total of 420 applicants versus 353 in Year 2021/2022, resulting in a 1.71% increase in the total number of new students registered when compared to the Academic Year 2021/2022. There was, however, an 11.3% reduction in the number of returning students which resulted in the total registration in the Faculty moving from three hundred and twelve (312) students in 2021/2022 to two hundred and ninety two (292) students in 2022/2023 (-6.41%). As in previous years, the Civil Engineering degree programme registered the highest number of new students of all the degree programmes. Table 1 shows a breakdown of total student registration by programme as well as a breakdown of the total registrations in terms of new students versus returning students.
Table 1: Breakdown of Student Registration
Preliminary Engineering Biomedical Engineering
47 52
Civil Engineering
107
Electrical Power Engineering
37 49
Electronics Engineering
New students
119 173 292
Returning Students Total in Programme
2
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