June 2019


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UWI Calendar June - August 2019

AI Solutions in the Cloud
June 6
UWI St Augustine

The Faculty of Engineering, in collaboration with Google, hosts the Google Cloud’s Artificial Intelligence Solutions workshop.

This workshop which takes place on June 6 from 9.30am to 12.30pm at Lecture Theatre 1, Ground Floor, Block 13, Max Richards Building, Faculty of Engineering.

Hear from Google’s engineers about Google’s Firebase as well as an intro to how Google does Machine Learning with an emphasis on Google Cloud.

There will also be three sessions about life and jobs at Google, as well as a recruiter and the Global Practice Lead for Machine Learning.

For more information, please visit the Campus Notices and Announcements page at https://sta.uwi.edu/news/notices/.

Food Safety Public Forum
June 7
UWI St Augustine

The Department of Food Production, Faculty of Food and Agriculture (FFA) joins the international community in commemoration of World Food Safety Day with a Public Forum on Food Safety Awareness with featured speaker, Dr Lisa Harrynanan, National Agricultural Health and Food Safety Specialist.

Find out how to reduce the spread of food-borne illnesses and how we can improve our food safety on June 7 from 5.30 to 7pm at the Sir Frank Stockdale Building.

For more information, please contact Arlette Antoine or Dr. Mark Wuddivira at 662-2002 exts. 82267 or 82089.

Entrepreneurship 101
June 15
UWI St Augustine

The Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), Department of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Unit invites new and developing entrepreneurs to participate in the Entrepreneurship 101 workshop.

This one-day workshop will be held on June 15 from 9am to 3pm at the Institute of Critical Thinking.

The workshop will focus on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Participants will gain understanding about the entrepreneurship process, improve their business planning skills and develop strategies to successfully take an idea to the market.

The registration fee is $150. All participants will be able to:

• Access one free hour of one-on-one business start-up mentorship from the Entrepreneurship Unit.
• Receive a Certificate of Training in Entrepreneurship from the Department of Management Studies.

For more information, please email julian.henry@sta.uwi.edu.

The UWI Open Lectures Committee invites you to attend the Professorial Inaugural Lecture by Professor Boppana Chowdary on the topic, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Manufacturing Engineering: Towards Sustainable Manufacturing in Trinidad.

The lecture takes place at 6pm at Lecture Theatre 1, Ground Floor, Block 13, Max Richards Building, Faculty of Engineering.

To RSVP please email uwistaevents@sta.uwi.edu or call 662-2002 ext. 83996/85012.

Secondary school students from Form 4 to 6 and undergraduate students are invited to check out the 5th Annual Department of Computing and Information Technology’s (DCIT) Boot Camp.

Learn about robot car and python programming, web design and much more from faculty and student experts.

Applications are open for interested students to apply for the camp taking place from July 8 to 12 from 9am to 4pm at DCIT, Computer Science Lab. The cost is $1,299.

The application deadline is June 18.

For more information, please visit their website: https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/dcit/bootcamp/2019/

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) will be offering Short Courses on Introduction to R and SPSS (Beginner and Intermediate Levels) throughout August.

• SPSS Beginner | August 5 to 9 | 5 to 8pm
• SPSS Intermediate | August 12 to 15 | 5 to 8pm
• R Beginner | August 19 to 23 | 5 to 8pm
• R Intermediate | August 26 to 30 | 5 to 8pm

A certificate of participation will be awarded upon completion of course/s. Each course costs $1,500. Enjoy the special price of two courses for $2,500.

For more information, please call 662-2002 ext. 83553, 83641 or email: kevin.awai@sta.uwi.edu or trisha.prince@sta.uwi.edu.