See instead of going to court

[Jawge]

and belittling their brand in the media. This Euro giant did what any well thinking corp. would do.

NCU gets $10B software grant from Siemens

Published: Tuesday | November 24, 2009



Thompson
A SOFTWARE grant valued at US$118 million (J$10.7 billion) was yesterday presented to the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) by Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software Inc.

The presentation took place at the university's main campus in Mande-ville, Manchester.

"As Jamaicans, we have a great vision for ourselves, that by 2030, we can be recog-nised as a developed country by United Nations standards," said Dr Herbert Thomp-son, president of NCU.

"We know that we will need to continue to train and develop our next generation of engineers and manufacturers to achieve that goal. This grant from Siemens PLM will help establish a world-class engineering department for our students and perhaps inspire them to help us reach our goal."

Alfredo Trevino, vice-president - sales, Siemens PLM Software, said his organisation was happy to partner with NCU to provide PLM solutions as the training tool for its next generation of engineers.

"We hope that through this in-kind software grant, students will have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of how product life-cycle managementtools and computer-aided engineering are used to help bring innovative thinking and ideas to life." The grant, which is the largest in the island's history, will provide training for students and enrich the university's engineering curriculum in pre-paring students to enter the work-force. It includes NX software, Siemens PLM Software's digital product-development solution, which includes computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) applications


Now it's safe to assume that any pioneering research done here in software engineering, Siemens has first "dibs" on it. They already saw what NCU did in the Microsoft competition. Talk about under yuh nose. This is good for JA, MAY JUST BE THE START OF JA's OWN VERSION OF MIT OR CALTECH.

Mi notice UWI Mona start ah Engineering Dept. to, UWI need to get a major corp. on board though i.e. INTEL or BMW et al. Mek mi tek whey miself before dem cuss mi wid mi champagne mind.

aah bwoy. I can see some hope now for JA.

[Gamma]

somalia averted

[Jawge]

Kooyah now:

GraceKennedy joins NCU in cancer fight

Published: Wednesday | November 25, 2009


Richard Bryan, Gleaner Writer

Head of GK Foods, Erwin Burton (second left), signs a memorandum of understanding with Northern Caribbean University, represented by Beverley Cameron (second right), vice-president of academic affairs. At right is Anthony Lawrence of GK Foods. Others witnessing the occasion are (from left) Danieto Murray, vice-president, finance and industries; Al Powell, chief executive officer at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority; Paul Giles, dean of the College of Natural and Applied Sciences; and Patrick Lawrence, senior adviser in the Ministry of Agriculture. - Photo by Richard Bryan

MANDEVILLE, Manchester:
On the heels of an announcement earlier this week of a hugely historic US million-dollar software partnership with internationally based Siemens Product Lifecycle Management to boost its engineering department, Northern Caribbean University (NCU) inked another big partnership, this time with local business conglomerate GraceKennedy.

Through its GK Foods & Services arm, GraceKennedy has decided to partner with NCU, through a signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), to follow up on positive findings unearthed from recent research conducted at the university on the cancer-fighting properties of sorrel.

Far-reaching implications
The monetary value of the MOU was not disclosed, nor were speci-fic terms in relation to length of the contract, but Patrick Smith, corporate communications director at NCU, told The Gleaner the implications were more far-reaching than any focus on the money involved at this time.

"The news is that the university is involved with research that is going to affect the agricultural industry and other fields in many ways," he said.

Erwin Burton, head of GK Foods & Services, said the partnership was the kind that was needed to expand the country's developmental horizons.

"Industry and science have come together with this deal, and this is a link that we have not made as effective in the past," he said.

"We hope this will be the beginning of how we move forward."

Senior adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Patrick Lawrence, who spoke on behalf of Minister Tufton, said the partnership could help to stimulate the production of more sorrel locally and for export purposes, and quoted data which showed that the product, when exported, could attract as much as US$5 per kilogram in the United Kingdom.

Dr Paul Giles, who heads the research team that includes Dr J. Bailey-Penrod and Patrice Williams-Gordon, said his group sought to build on established research which showed that sorrel, which existed in Malaysia and India, had shown medicinal purposes.

Treatment of allergies
Extracts from the plant, Giles disclosed, helped in the treatment of individual allergies, and acted as laxatives and diuretics, as well as provided a soothing effect on the skin.

From the NCU research, he said, there were tangible signs that sorrel could influence the treatment of dreaded cancer cells.

"Our research has proven that sorrel - its seeds and extract - contain vita chemicals, antioxidants and flavonoids," said Giles, dean of the university's College of Natural and Applied Sciences. According to Giles, the research would focus on lung and laryngeal cancers and on how the substances found in sorrel impact cancer cells. How organs reacted in turn would also be important to the study, which would allow for proper dosages of the substances to be arrived at.

Look lilke UWI ah di stepchild. Mi notice suppen but mi nah say nutten. Look like wi nah learn. Well dem say "tan an see nuh spoil nuh dance". So mi ah gwaan watch di ride.

[Jawge]

Maybe, cause mi really nuh see dem a invest inna nuh research ah Somalia. Tan an see nuh spoil nuh dance still

[Muadib]

"Intellectual Ghetto" is a phrase not understood by many. Poor Mutty never realize dis.

But don't worry.. is nuff bright people come out of UWI.. ebryting criss..

lol !

[Jawge]

Your contribution to progress is noted. Thanks.

[Muadib]

If you only knew...

lol !

[1of1]

a joke yuh a mek man invest in a cell network inna somalia, all when shot a fire

[Mosiah]

Through its GK Foods & Services arm, GraceKennedy has decided to partner with NCU, through a signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), to follow up on positive findings unearthed from recent research conducted at the university on the cancer-fighting properties of sorrel.

Dr Paul Giles, who heads the research team that includes Dr J. Bailey-Penrod and Patrice Williams-Gordon, said his group sought to build on established research which showed that sorrel, which existed in Malaysia and India, had shown medicinal purposes.

Treatment of allergies
Extracts from the plant, Giles disclosed, helped in the treatment of individual allergies, and acted as laxatives and diuretics, as well as provided a soothing effect on the skin.

From the NCU research, he said, there were tangible signs that sorrel could influence the treatment of dreaded cancer cells.

"Our research has proven that sorrel - its seeds and extract - contain vita chemicals, antioxidants and flavonoids," said Giles, dean of the university's College of Natural and Applied Sciences. According to Giles, the research would focus on lung and laryngeal cancers and on how the substances found in sorrel impact cancer cells. How organs reacted in turn would also be important to the study, which would allow for proper dosages of the substances to be arrived at.

Well, hopefully, my love for sorrel is not in vain! Just in vein!

[Jawge]

What kind of cell, a terrorist one or telephone?

[Jawge]

Here comes UWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII. Guess what? mi ah go bat fi UWI cause it
look like UWI ah di ugly duckling inna dis ting here:

UWI now offering degree in electronic engineering

Published: Sunday | November 15, 2009


Avia Collinder, Business Reporter

Principal of the Mona campus, University of the West Indies, Professor Gordon Shirley (right), greets three of the first batch of 20 students pursuing the newly introduced three-year BSc Electronic Engineering undergraduate degree programme, (from left) Matthew Myers, Kelton Edwards and Mesha-Ann McKenzie, at the launch of the course at the Mona Visitors' Lodge and Conference Centre, Mona, St Andrew, November 9. - JIS
The Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is now offering an undergraduate degree in electronic engineering, which the school says will provide graduates immediate employment in the telecommunications and manufacturing sector.
The tuition cost for the degree, which is being offered here in Kingston in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences as an extension programme of the UWI, St Augustine Campus in Trinidad, is in the region of $180,000 per year, with 80 per cent subsidy from the government of Jamaica.
"We have started with that - electronic engineering - because we have a need to develop manufacturing," says programme coordinator, Dr Ronald Aikin, a senior engineer.
"We are putting together other proposals for a master's programme where the return for industry will be even greater in terms of design and innovation for the sector. We need to develop industries, and science and technology will take us out of the state we are in, which is using more than we are producing. If we can persuade students to pursue studies in science and technology and engineering, our future will be a better one," the engineer said.
improved access
The number of Jamaicans who do engineering programmes in Trinidad has been falling and so the offering of the full degree in Kingston should improve access, Aikin said.
The programme is designed so that Jamaicans can do the first year of the course and then transfer to St Augustine, which does a wider range of engineering programmes, but not one in electronics.
To qualify for the programme, Jamaican students will need mathematics and physics passes at CAPE or GCE Advanced level, or equivalent qualification.
undergraduate enrolment
At Mona, students who have passed mathematics and physics at ordinary level, or CSEC, will be able to do a preliminary year in the faculty of Natural Sciences in order to qualify for enrolment in the engineering degree.
In 2007-2008, the undergraduate enrolment in the Faculty of Engineering in Trinidad was 1,419, with only 53 of the students being Jamaican.
Only 12 new Jamaican students were registered in 2007. This suggests that St Augustine is not seen as an effective option for Jamaican students seeking tertiary engineering education, information supplied by the UWI revealed last week.
The school also noted that the expansion into electronic engineering follows on discussions with the Jamaica Institution of Engineers, the conduct of a needs survey, and the university's examination of the Government of Jamaica's document on critical-skills needs in the public sector.
emerging disciplines
Apart from the need for traditional engineers in areas such as civil and electronic engineering, there was also a demand for emerging disciplines, such as biomedical engineering, environmental engineering and energy engineering, which are currently underserved.
The three-year Bachelor of Science in electronic engineering, a first effort to meet these needs, is offered through the Electronics Unit in collaboration with the Department of Physics at Mona.
Areas of study cover engineering physics, computer science and mathematics, electronics and electrical circuits, engineering management, accounting systems, new-venture creation and entrepreneurship, as well as telecommunications or industrial instrumentation.
It is proposed that on graduation, UWI students will be technically qualified for immediate employment in the fields of telecommunications and industrial instrumentation, and also have capabilities to design, develop and test electronic equipment and instruments.
They should also be able to use modern engineering techniques and tools to identify, formulate, and solve electronic engineering problems and be able to adapt to future changes in the discipline. Graduates are also expected to apply newly learnt theories and skills to the technological and industrial development of Jamaica and the Caribbean region, demonstrating an understanding of ethical, societal, and professional responsibility, the UWI said in its description of the new programme.


See, this is the weakness in our political system: Paulwell brought in some US corps. which gave many jobs in the N.west because of politics he was made to look impotent in the meedia. What if we had taken the nationalistic approach and not the partisan? Paulwell could help UWI to get in touch with GE or even Boeing. hey these US coprs don't care who comes up with something new as long as it's new and viable.

Anyway UWI, good start, now get a major corp on board for your students. I'm on the sidelines rooting for you UWI, UWI, UWI.

BTW the north coast needs a serious campus (forget that place right in the middle of the airport).

[Gamma]

a funny thing happened on the slippery slope to somalia.....

[Jawge]

High time you get off that Somalia pony. What sayest thou?

[Gamma]

mi not nowhere near the amount a times yuh mention somalia with impunity suh mi will continue to point it out when relevant!!!

so sorry about that!

[Jawge]

I mention Somalia because it's relevant to my arguments. You seem to say Somalia at every chance you get.