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REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
UWI – UF Collaboration In September 2022, the Faculty of Engineering (FoE) sent off their first transfer student to the University of Florida under the UWI-UF collaboration. After com- pleting two (2) years in our Electronics programme in our Faculty, Jordan Hayden successfully transferred to the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida (UF) to pursue a B.Sc. Degree in Aerospace Engineering under the UWI – UF Collaboration. Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Collaboration Mission Dr. Thomas was selected to participate in the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Collaboration Mission. As a selected delegate, he travelled with the mission to British Columbia (Victoria, Vancouver, Prince George) and Ontario (Hamilton, Guelph, Toronto) from November 6–12, 2022, and attended the CBIE’s Annual Conference, which took place in Toronto from November 13 to 16, 2022. The Collaboration Mission event is sponsored by Global Affairs Canada and orga- nized by the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE). During the trip, Dr. Thomas met with key persons from other institutions with the hope to establish collaborations with their institutions. The theme of the mission was “AI & Innovation”. UPENN Collaboration 2022–2023 saw the renewal of the Faculty of Engineering’s collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and the return of physical student interaction. A total of ten (10) second-year Biomedical Engineering students were selected to participate in the UPENN Collaboration course ENG 1400 which was offered in Semester 2. There were eight (8) Jamaican based projects, and the students (UWI/UPENN) were required to create working prototypes of their solutions to the diagnosed patient issues. Projects were assigned to groups that comprised a mix of both UPENN and UWI students. The Mona students attended classes presented by UPENN Faculty in real-time via zoom or asynchronously via access to the recordings. Five (5) UWI faculty were involved in this collaboration. Course Coordinator Sasha-Gay Wright, stakeholder for one of the projects, Dr. Davaugh Sanderson; and teaching assistants Danelle Julal, Christina Douglas and Paul Wilson.
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