January 2013


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Professor Winston G. Lewis, Professor of Industrial Systems Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is one of only 3179 Fellows, out of 117,503 ASME members, selected for this honour.

Professor Lewis is the Deputy Dean of Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Engineering. He is the immediate past Head of Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, and a former Deputy Dean of Enterprise Development and Outreach. He has also served as Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Student Affairs in the Faculty of Engineering.

Professor Lewis lectures in the areas of Manufacturing, Ergonomics and Facilities Design to both Undergraduate and Graduate students. In recognition of his numerous contributions to the advancement of teaching and learning, Professor Lewis was awarded the UWI/Guardian Life of the Caribbean Premium Teaching Award in 2004.

His research and development work is in the areas of Metallurgical & Industrial Engineering, Sheet Metal Forming, Manufacture of the Steelpan Musical Instrument, Applied Ergonomics, Workplace Design, Engineering Quality Management and Nano-technology.

Professor Lewis is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of APETT. ASME is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skill development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods. Founded in 1880 by a small group of leading industrialists, ASME has grown through the decades to include almost 120,000 members in 150 countries worldwide.