The UWI Mona Campus' Annual Departmental Reports 2022_2023

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

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• CENG 1203 – Intro to Geotechnics • CENG 2202 – Hydrology & Water Resource Engineering • CENG 1203 – Intro to Geotechnics All courses were approved on April 17, 2023.

ALIGNMENT

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Graduate Research Degrees In Academic Year 2022/2023, there were four (4) research focused graduate students enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering. One (1) student was pursuing a PhD and two (2) students were enrolled in MPhil programmes. The students’ area of research spanned the fields of Biomedical, Civil Engineering, Electronics and Computer Engineering, and Transportation Engineering. Students attended a total of thirteen (13) seminars for the 2022/2023 academic year. These presentations exposed graduate students to the varying research meth- odologies employed by lectures, and were introduced in an effort to broaden the scope of knowledge exchange within the Faculty which was intended to enhance the quality of the research output of the Faculty. Climate Change and Global Health Conference 2022 Dr. Roxann Stennett-Brown was invited to attend the Climate Change and Global Health Conference 2022, from November 30 to December 2, 2022, at the FIU Koven’s Convention Center, Miami, Florida. This was organized by The Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work at the Florida International University (FIU), in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Baylor College School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Wisconsin. Electric Vehicle Expo The Faculty of Engineering was one of the key stakeholders for the Electric Vehicle Expo held on The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus on November 25, 2022. This event was planned and executed by the Caribbean Centre for Renew- able Energy & Energy Efficiency (CCREE) with support from The UWI Mona as partners. For the event, Flash Motors Company donated, installed and commissioned an Electric Charging Station on the UWI Mona Campus. This donation provides significant opportunities for the university’s research and development as well as

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