(Chairman Anthony Chadee receiving the plaque to commerate the IET's sponsorship and support of the conference from Professor Edwin Ekwue)
Professor Brian Copeland, Dean of Engineering, opened the conference with a focus on the wealth generation model.
The audience were enthralled by the recollections and accomplishments by Professor Emeritus Winston A. Mellows.
Dr. Haydn Furlonge expressed the importance of project engineering and management in the development of a sustainable world.
Various participants presented their research and findings into a variety of topics.
(Professor Josephy Ssegawa provided a presentation on Identifying Perspectives for Effective Project Leadership)
Professor Chanan Syan introduced Kenisha Campbell, whose presentation focused upon the feasibility of solar power for cellular sites.
The first day of the conference cotinued with several participants presenting their key findings.
(Professor Kit Fai Pun introduces Dr. Graham King and his presentation)
(Mr. Kishore Jhagroo, UWI Lecturer in Maintenance Engineering & Management, presents on the Optimisation of Major Plant Turnarounds in the Heavy Industries)
The members of the audience were engaged with a panel discussion on the challenges of project engineering and management in a sustainable world with Professor Winston Mellowes, Professor Joesph Ssegawa, Professor Edwin Ekwue, Dr. Graham King and Dr. Ruel Ellis. The panel was moderated by Professor Kit Fai Pun.
The start of the second day of the conference.
Chairman Anthony Chadee presenting the keynote on the second day of the conference, on the design an development of WASA's business continuity management system.
(Anthony Chadee receives the certificate for his keynote presentation from Dr. Ruel Ellis)
The participants continue their presentations on the second day of the conference.
Each member of the audience as well as the participants received a book of the conference proceedings and other articles as well as a commerative bag.
Key sponsors of the event.
On a personal note, those papers and presentations that piqued my interest were the Perspectives for effective leadership by Professor Joseph Ssegawa, Acknowledging the CEC requirement when planning industrial projects, Optimisation of major plant turnarounds in the heavy industries by Mr. Kishore Jhagroo, the Comparison of the varying effects on RF propagation characteristics in natural and man-made environments, Ergonomic design and layout of a distributed control centre, Assessing the financial feasibility of solar versus diesel power of cellular sites in Guyana's Hinterland and the Development of a maintenance strategy for a distributor of water: a case study in Guyana.