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University of Technology, Jamaica
• ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015
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showcase was renamed in 2015 with “Innovation”
included to highlight cutting-edge, applied research
and innovation being undertaken by the University with
the objective of significantly impacting areas of national
development. RTID, organized and managed by the
SGSRE, was staged on March 12, 2015 to showcase
recent results of research and innovation activities
undertaken by faculty members and students; highlight
existing research collaborations between the university,
academic, and industry partners; attract potential
research partners from academia and industry and
promote the university’s courses of
study, especially graduate research
degrees
Four hundred (400) copies of
the publication, “Research and
Innovation: Initiatives, Engagements
and Achievements,” prepared by
the SGSRE and the Corporate
Communications Unit for Research,
Technology and Innovation Day
2015, were printed for general
distribution. The publication
describes the University’s research
management ecosystem and presents examples of
scholarly initiatives, engagements, and achievements
of UTech Jamaica’s staff members.
The Most Hon. Edward Seaga, ON, PC (3
rd
left), Chancellor UTech listens
intently to Dr. Patricia Green (2
nd
left), Head, Caribbean School of Architecture
(CSA) during a visit to the School’s booth mounted by the Faculty of Built
Environment at Research, Technology and Innovation Day. Looking on from
left are Ms. Jacquiann Lawton, Senior Lecturer, CSA and Prof. Colin Gyles,
Deputy President.
Thirty (30) exhibits and sixteen (16) Speakers’ Forum
presentations covered research and innovation being
pursued in areas such as renewable energy, sports,
climate change, natural products, architecture,
orthodontics, public health nutrition, food security,
forensic science, technical, vocational and STEM
education, education transformation, geoinformatics,
tribology, ICT applications, musicological pedagogy,
integrated optics and photonics, law, and the health
sciences. The exhibits and oral presentations at RTID
2015 were important means of communicating UTech’s
work to its proximate stakeholders.
Westwood High School students take keen interest to the displays at
the booth mounted by the Faculty of the Built Environment and Nursing
students, College of Health Sciences explain an aspect of nursing practice
to high school students at RTID College/Faculty exhibits.
Staff Publishing
Members of staff of the University made conference
presentations in 14 countries across 5 continents and
published papers in 28 peer-reviewed journals during
the period under review. In addition, several UTech,
Jamaica staff members have listed/uploaded their
publications to ResearchGate, a social networking site
of more than one million users where scientists and
researchers share papers, ask and answer questions,
and find collaborators.
Intellectual Property
One patent application was filed and 174 copyrighted
works were produced by UTech, Jamaica staff
members in 2014. Negotiation of a Non-Disclosure
Agreement (NDA) with a private-sector company
continued for possible licensing of the technology
behind a “Modular LED Lighting System for Street
Lighting” system developed by researchers from the
Faculty of Engineering and Computing.