Background Image
Previous Page  39 / 168 Next Page
Information
Show Menu
Previous Page 39 / 168 Next Page
Page Background

University of Technology, Jamaica

• ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Page 37

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.