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SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES RESEARCH AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SGSRE)

CONT’D

Page 38

University of Technology, Jamaica

• ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Journal of Arts Science And Technology (JAST)

Volume 7 of the annually published Journal of

Arts Science and Technology (JAST) was issued

in November 2014. The journal carried 10 multi-

disciplinary papers by UTech, Jamaica staff and

external contributors. JAST is now posted online with

EBSCOHost and on the University website. The Call

for Papers for volume 8, 2015, was issued in February

2015.

CARIBBEAN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND

INNOVATION INSTITUTE (CSEII)

Dr. Ruth Potopsingh

Associate Vice President

The Caribbean Sustainable

Energy and Innovation

Institute (CSEII) continued to

build strategic partnerships

with institutions and

industry both locally and

internationally. CSEII’s

mission is to provide

leadership in sustainable energy for the University

through applications in renewable energy, applied

research, energy efficiency, policy and energy

education.

Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Training

The Institute with the support of the German

international development agency, Deutsche

Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ),

successfully conducted a six-week intensive Solar PV

Design and Implementation course in November 2014.

Twenty persons including engineers, renewable energy

project managers, Solar PV installers/technicians

and energy practitioners participated in lectures, lab

sessions and introduction to software resources PV*

Sol donated by GIZ. Lecturers were from the School

of Engineering and GIZ Consultant Professor Christoph

Menke. The presenter, GIZ’s Professor Christoph

Menke, also conducted a workshop in the use of the

PV*Sol Software for course participants and Lecturers.

Students participating in the Solar PV laboratory Sessions.

BRIDGE Project

As part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

sponsored BRIDGE (Building Capacity and Regional

Integration for the Development of a Generation of

Entrepreneurs in Sustainable Energy and Information

and Communication Technologies) programme,

the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific

Research (TNO) and Arizona State University (ASU),

together with BRIDGE program partner General Electric

(GE), implemented workshops for educators on solar

energy technologies and energy efficiency January

5-16 2015. The workshop(s) were held in collaboration

with the University of the West Indies (UWI) and other

educational institutions in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

and Barbados.

The CSEII facilitated participation of three UTech,

Jamaica lecturers who were also afforded the

opportunity to sit the North American Board of

Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) Entry Level

PV Installation Professional and Solar Heating Installer

Certification exam, all of whom were successful.