DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING
Prof. Gunjan Mansingh, BSc (Bombay University, India), MPhil, PhD (UWI) – Head of Department
OVERVIEW The Department of Computing (DoC) continues to offer multiple undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering and Data Science. We regularly revise our programmes to keep them in line with international curricula recommendations for Computing. The DoC continues to contribute towards society, as various faculty members gave talks and participated in many workshops locally, regionally, and internationally. Between July 3–28, 2023, the DoC organized and hosted the second offering of a residential coding programme called JamCoders (https://jamcoders.org.jm/). This summer camp focused on algorithms and programming for 48 high school students drawn from 12 parishes of Jamaica. This programme was organized by the faculty from the Department of Computing at The UWI, Mona, members of the Caribbean Diaspora working at Google and The University of California – Berkeley, and the reggae artiste, Jamar McNaughton aka Chronixx, via his CHOR Foundation. We run internship programmes in two formats, general and targeted. In the general category, our students work in various private and public companies in Jamaica. We run a targeted internship program with Jamaica’s National Commercial Bank (NCB). In the summer of 2022/23, we successfully completed training (virtually) the sixth cohort of the NCB-UWI Agile Laboratory Project with 15 students. Our student numbers continue to grow, especially in the postgraduate and advanced undergraduate Computing courses. Numbers in the introductory, i.e., level 1, com- puting courses have rebounded to the numbers last seen in 2019/20, while those in the advanced courses remained stable across the 2020/21 to 2022/23 period. However, these numbers are roughly 15.5% up from our 2018/19 numbers. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that employment in computing and information technology occupations will grow much faster than the average for all occupations over the 2022–2032 period. Similar forecasts are not readily available
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