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DEAN’S OVERVIEW
The Faculty Team – administrative, technical and support staff – continued to work in tandem with lecturers to ensure that the student experience remained at a high and superior standard to that of most other institutions, and remain at the forefront in propelling growth, development and innovation in the Caribbean and the world. The following accomplishments mirrored the guiding pillars of the University.
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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Prizes Awarded to Students The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information continues to make the schol- arships available to Engineering students. This year, Ms. Sasha Gay-Wright, Dr. Roxann Stennett-Brown, Dr. DaVaugh Sanderson and Dr. Omar Thomas served on the panel of interviewers for the MathScience TVET Education & Engineer- ing (MSTVETT) Scholarship. Thirty-six (36) engineering students were awarded full tuition scholarships which represents a 100% increase over the eighteen (18) scholarships awarded to engineering students in Academic Year 2022/2023. Table 2 shows the distribution of the 2023/2024 awardees by programme most recent list of the number of awardees by programme is shown below:
Table 2: MSTVETT Scholarships Awarded to the Faculty of Engineering
Number of new students receiving scholarships
Programme of choice
Biomedical Engineering
5
Civil Engineering
12
Electrical Power Engineering
9
Electronics Engineering
2
Preliminary Engineering
8
TOTAL
36
Outreach-Open Day The Faculty of Engineering hosted its Open day on Thursday, March 30, 2023. Over 36 schools from across Jamaica were invited to participate and the event was adver- tised on both The UWI Mona and the Faculty of Engineering Social Media pages.
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