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SOE Research and Entrepreneurship Lecture
Series
The School of Engineering continued its lecture series.
The presentations featured the following areas:
The Future of Jamaica in Global Logistics:
Opportunities for Innovation, Research and
Entrepreneurship.
o Presenters: Miss K. Adair and Miss E. Hayden
(Caribbean Maritime Institute) July 2014
Manufacturing Industries: Opportunities for
Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship.
o Presenter: Mr Oneil Josephs (Lecturer,
Industrial Engineering) August 2014
Off Grid Energy Planning – HOMER and RETSCReen.
o Presenter: Mr Mika Korkeakoski (Project
Manager of Finland Futures Research Centre)
November 2014
Futures Studies: Opportunities for Innovation,
Research and Entrepreneurship.
Presenter: Dr Juha Kaskinen (Director of Finland
Futures Research Centre) November 2014
UTech, Jamaica hosted the first Summer Programme
in Robotics and Renewable Energy for high school
students (UTech, Ja. /Kimroy Bailey Robotics
Summer Camp). The one-week Science, Robotics
and Renewable Energy Summer camp was designed
to enhance the students’ knowledge of the practical
applications of Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM) while providing them with an
exciting hands-on learning experience.
Sixty-three (63) students participated in the summer
camp which ran in two sessions from July 7-11 and
July 21-25, with a closing ceremony held at UTech,
Jamaica’s Papine campus, on July 25, 2014. The
participants benefitted
from instructions on how
to build and assemble a
mobile robotic platform
and the link between
renewable energy and
robotics, as well as how
these can be integrated
for national development.
Kimroy Bailey (left) explains to Hon.
Julian Robinson, Minister of State in
the Ministry of Science, Technology,
Energy and Mining how one of
the mobile robotics built by camp
participants’ works. The robot was
programmed to move away from
obstacles and follow an infrared
light to obtain solar charge.
Entrepreneurial Ventures
Project management and short courses provided a
significant income stream for the Faculty.
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• ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015
Dr. Juha Kaskinen, Director of Finland Futures Studies Research Centre, delivering a lecture on “Future Studies: Opportunities for Innovation, Research and
Entrepreneurship” hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Computing on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at the Faculty’s conference room, UTech, Ja. Papine
campus.