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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING Professor of Production Engineering and Management Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Tel 868 662 2002 ext. 82074 82067 82071 E-mail chanan.syansta.uwi.edu PROF. CHANAN SINGH SYAN Professor Chanan S. Syan graduated from the University of Bradford UK in 1983 with a BEng Hons in Mechanical Engineering.In 1988 he obtained a doctorate from Hull Univer- sity UK in Artificial Intelligence in Design for Manufacture. He has over 15 years of professional industrial experience and over 25 years as an academic in Higher Education. Presently he is head of Production Engineering and Management Office Postgraduate office Leader of graduate programmes and Professor at The University of the West Indies. His major research interests are in the areas of Engineering Asset Management EAM Brain Computer Interface BCI Manufacturing Excellence ME Innovation Entrepreneurship and wealth Creation IEWC Robotics and Automation RA. His research seeks to explore how technology can be used to improve maintenance and reliability of the local industry improve life of physically challenged people to enable them to be more independent and less dependent or a burden on society and support the local regional industry to move towards becoming internationally competitive and sustain- able. The key focus of his research namely EAM BCI and RA were not established at the University prior to his arrival in October 2006. Therefore his first focus was to raise funds from university and other external sources totalling over TT3.5M to set up research and teaching laboratories in these areas to support teaching and learning as well as establish research activities. He set up the first BCI research group in the region in 2009 launched the EAM research group in 2012 and RA group is in its final stages of becoming fully operational. To support the local industry he has redesigned in consul- tation with stakeholders and further extended the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering departments postgraduate programme portfolio. A fee paying new and novel Masters programme in Engineering Asset Management has been designed and successfully implemented. This is the first postgraduate offering in this area and supporting the core needs of the energy sector this programme has already made significant contributions to the sector by direct savings of tens of millions of dollars. Currently there are five 5 successful taught masters programmes I the department with annual intake of approximately sixty five 65 students. Professor Syan is the Vice President of International Society for Productivity Enhancement responsible for Conferences. He is of of the founder member of this international organisation who is responsible for the longest 28 years established and respected International Conference on CAD CAM Robotics and factories of the Future. He has successfully lead research projects and successfully supervised numerous PhD MPhil and MSc projects. At UWI he has lead research projects or has been a key team member in procuring projects and funds totalling over TT48M. To date he has authored over 100 academic papers published including book chapters interna- tional refereed journals international conferences and regional local conferences. Some key achievements at UWI include Procurement of fully funded Centre for InnovationEntrepre- neurship and Wealth Creation at UWI supported by Republic Bank Limited. Total project value over five 5 years TT45M. Development of the novel and innovative Mirrored Word Reading Paradigm MWRP which was specifically devel- oped to meet the needs of the low cost BCI controlled Vehicle. A novel low cost trajectory planning and correction approach utilising low-cost sonar and vision sensors for effective navigation of indoor terrain. Establishing a prototype to assess the feasibility to establish demand for retail products demand using P300 speller based on emotive response. Manufacturing Excellence approach for local industry for self-assessment to aid continuous improvement. Assessment of World Class Manufacturing practices and their effectiveness in Trinidad and Tobago using AHP based approach. Major ongoing research activities include Brain Computer Interface for Assistive Technologies and Manufacturing Excellence. Optimisation of offshore assets availability for gas produc- tion using stochastic and risk-based models. Implementation issues in practice of Maintenance Excellence approaches in energy based industries. Selected Publications Chanan S. Syan Managing Diversity for Excellence invited keynote address at 7th Annual Tribology Conference Education 88