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16 October 2004	Public Seminar on “Electric Utility – Customer Interface”
5 June 2004	Public Seminar on “Lean Manufacturing: Experience Sharing”
29 May 2004	The Engineering Management Final-Year Students’ Project Competition 2003/2004
March 2004	The University of the West Indies Faculty of Engineering “Build a Tower” Project
June 2005	The Engineering Management Final-Year Students’ Project Competition 2003/2004
Summer 2005	Opening of the Centre for Enterprise Resource Integration
October 2005	ERI Centre Summer project presentations

Public Seminar on “Electric Utility – Customer Interface”

16 October 2004

The Local Chapter of the Industry Applications Society (IAS), IEEE Trinidad and Tobago (IEEETT) Subsection, held it’s inaugural Seminar titled “Electric Utility – Customer Interface” on Saturday 16 October 2004 at the Faculty of Engineering, UWI. The co-sponsors of this seminar included The University of the West Indies, The Association of Professional Engineers (APETT) and The Board of Engineering (BOE). Eng. Alvin Lutchman, Chairman of IEEETT, delivered greetings on behalf of the IEEE, UWI and the Board of Engineering, while Eng. Dr. C. Sharma, President of APETT and Vice-Chairman of IEEETT delivered greetings on behalf of APETT. Eng. Trevor Babwah, Chairman of the Local IAS Chapter chaired the day’s proceedings. The presenters for the day’s proceedings included Eng. Israfill Ali (Assistant General Manager Transmission and Distribution TTEC), Eng. Sahadeo Latchmepersad (Senior Engineer (Ag), Engineering Services and Planning, TTEC), Eng. Peter Sammy (Managing Director, Design Engineering Services Limited), and Eng. Dr. M.K.S. Sastry (Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, UWI). A lively question/answer period followed each presentation.

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Public Seminar on
“Lean Manufacturing: Experience Sharing”
5 June 2004

On 5 June 2004, a UK expert in lean manufacturing, Mr Colin Janes of Papilio Limited, presented a public seminar at the Faculty of Engineering, UWI. The seminar was hosted by the Industrial Engineering Office, UWI and cosponsored by APETT in collaboration with the Caribbean Business Services Limited (CBSL) and the Engineering Management Society (EMS) Chapter of the IEEE Trinidad and Tobago Subsection (IEEETT). Officiated by the Dean Professor Clement K. Sankat, the seminar was well received over 60 participants including invited guests, IEEE/APETT members, faculty members, and delegates from industry. Mr Janes has shared with participants the latest development, successful cases, obstacles and difficulties of lean manufacturing practice in industry from the European context.

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The Engineering Management Final-Year Students’ Project Competition 2003/2004

(with the Official Launch of the UWI’s IEEE Student Branch)

29 May 2004

An Industrial Engineering student, Miss Natasha Balliram, won the first place in the Engineering Management Final-Year Student’s Project Competition held at the Faculty of Engineering on 29 May 2004. The competition was hosted by the Faculty and organised in collaboration with the Engineering Management Society (EMS) Chapter and the UWI Student Branch, of the IEEE Trinidad and Tobago Subsection (IEEETT). Professor Clement K. Sankat, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Professor Gurmohan S. Kochhar, Deputy Principal, St Augustine Campus, and Mr Alvin Lutchman, Chairman of IEEE Trinidad and Tobago Section, officiated the competition. The judging panel was composed of Dr Brian Copeland, Dr Keith Miller, and Mr Stanley Lau, all from the Faculty of Engineering. Seven project presentations were made by engineering students, and the programme was well received over 80 participants including invited guests, staff members, presenters, students, and representatives from industry. Besides, the official launch of the UWI’s IEEE Student Branch was held at the end of the competition.

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The University of the West Indies Faculty of Engineering “Build a Tower” Project

This is a task-oriented competitive project designed as an integral component for Project Management and Value Engineering and Management courses in the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, respectively at UWI. The project stresses teamwork, creativity, cooperation and coordination, and more importantly, the challenge of achieving best value. All project teams should design and build a tower that is considered functional fit and meets the height and loading requirements. All proposed materials, tools and equipment would be provided by and/or allocated via the Faculty of Engineering.

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The Opening of the Centre for Enterprise Resource and Integration

Summer 2005

The CERI which unofficially started operations since summer 2004, has this summer officially opened with summer projects and key research areas in industrial engineering and general manufacturing.

Further details and pictures will be posted.

Please visit the CERI website at: http://www.eng.uwi.tt/depts/mech/eri/index.htm for more details.

CERI team at work in summer 2005	Diligent focus on CADCAM.	Egg at astart.
Force plate in cuttine	Tea mat work2.

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The ERI Centre Summer project presentation

October 2005

The ERI centre summer project presentations were sucessfully held in october of 2005. THe presentations featured the two projects which were conducted in the centre over the summer

The two projects were a Rapid Prototyping project to build the ERI logo from teak wood done by Ms Petra Babulal and Reverse Engineering of a Manufacturing component of a cigarette packing machine by Mr. Kevin Mohan.

In attendance were visitors from industry including partners from Metal Industries Company (MIC) and faculty staff members and students of Engineering at UWI. THe projects sparked inquiry among the participants and shared insights into centre capabilities and further research oppurtunities to exploit RE and RP technologies..