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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 2ND NOVEMBER, 2014
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UWI Calendar
of
Events
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2014
Harnessing Science
November 21-23, 2014
Magdalena Grand Resort, Tobago
The Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS), in
collaboration with the Tobago House of Assembly
hosts its 19th general meeting and biennial
conference, “Harnessing Science and Technology to
Create Knowledge-Based Economies and Preserve
Caribbean Ecosystems”. One of the main objectives
of the conference is to assemble regional and
international natural scientists, social scientists and
engineers to deliberate and focus their thoughts on
the two areas identified in the theme.
For more information,
please visit the Campus Events Calendar at
Long Term Evolution (LTE) Network
Design and Optimisation Boot Camp
December 8-12
Faculty of Engineering
CelPlan Technologies, Inc. and The UWI, St.
Augustine Campus have renewed an Academic
Programme Courseware Licence Agreement by
which CelPlan provides training materials on radio
communications and Radio-Frequency (RF)-based
systems, standards and technologies to The UWI.
The 4G Technologies Boot Camp is designed to give
CEOs, CTOs, managers, engineers, and technical
staff the practical knowledge and expertise on LTE
and WiMAX 4G networks.
For further information, please contact
the Faculty of Engineering at Tel: (868) 662-2002
CMOS Image Sensors in Every Camera:
A Story of Technology Invention,
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Eric Fossum
November 10, 2014
Lecture Theatre 1,
Faculty of Engineering,
The UWI, St. Augustine
The UWI, St. Augustine hosts a Distinguished Open
Lecture by Eric R. Fossum, Professor at the Thayer
School of Engineering at Dartmouth. His work
on miniaturising NASA interplanetary spacecraft
cameras at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the
early 1990’s led to his invention of the CMOS image
sensor “camera-on-a-chip” that has touched many
here on Earth, fromevery smartphone to automobiles
and medicine, from security and safety to art, social
media and political change. The lecture takes place
at 5.30pm and all are invited.
For further information, please contact
Ms. Christine Nanton,
Marketing and Communications Office,
UWI, St Augustine at 662 2002 ext. 83726.
DCFA Events
Cultural Research Colloquium
November 17 | 9:00am
School of Education Auditorium
Festival of Plays
November 20 – 23 | 8pm & 6pm | LRC Auditorium
DCFA Music Staff in Concert
November 26 | 8pm | Daaga Auditorium
Holiday Dance Recital
November 29 – 30 | 7pm | JFK Lecture Theatre
UWI Guitar Ensemble in Concert
November 29 | 6:00pm | CLL Auditorium
UWI Arts Chorale and Steel (Christmas)
December 6 | 7:30pm | Daaga Auditorium
December 11 | 7pm | Santa Rosa RC Church
December 14 | 6pm
President’s Grounds (Chorale + NSSO)
Challenges of Project Engineering
December 5-6, 2014
Faculty of Engineering
The UWI, St. Augustine
The Third Industrial Engineering and Management
Conference 2014 (IEM3-2014) will be held at the
Faculty of Engineering of The UWI, St Augustine,
from December 5-6, 2014. In keeping with the past
two IEM Conferences in 2006 and 2010, the theme
of the 2014 Conference is “The Challenges of Project
Engineering and Management in a Sustainable
World”. Submission deadline was October 1, 2014.
Conference registration for authors and participants
is US$100 per person, and for student authors/
participants, US$50 per person.
For further information please contact:
Professor Kit Fai Pun
c/o the Faculty of Engineering
Email:
Tel: 662-2002 exts. 82068/82069
