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Civil Engineering and maintained the Maintenance Engineering and Management Workshop which was marketed to the maintenance managers, engineers, technicians and operations personnel.
Guest speaker, Mr. Richard Pandohie, President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association
field and getting them involved, then we stand a better chance of securing our technical pipeline. In doing so, Jamaica will have a greater local talent pool that we can tap into for the future, resulting in the reduction of consistent gaps in areas that have great demand for high level technical skills, including engineering. Mr. Pandohie further said that he believes that developing new ways of stimulating and incentivizing technical training initiatives will play a significant role in improving and motivating our technical workforce. He also proposed that companies should be allowed to recover 50% of their training budget through tax incentives. This approach must also see us providing opportunities that can enrich their learning from a global standpoint, for instance creating avenues for educational missions and project collaboration with countries outside Jamaica.
Conference Day 1 of the Conference saw presentations under the session themes Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, Technology Innovation, Biomedical Engineering, Energy Systems Management.
Day 2 of the Conference commenced with a Keynote presentation by the Minister of Science Energy and Technology (MSET), the Honourable Fayval Williams. Minister Williams disclosed that the electric car policy will create an enabling environment for the use of the technology in the transport spaces. Minister Williams noted that in addition to the policy and regulatory framework, the JPSCo, will be installing charging stations in the coming year as part of the necessary infrastructure to accommodate electric vehicles. The Minister also challenged the JIE to make greater effort to expose the populous to the field of engineering and seek to partner with ministries such as MSET to do so. The Minister also toured the exhibits and had discussion with the sponsor representatives. Day 2 topics were presented under, Water and Wastewater Engineering, Infrastructure Development, Climate Change and Environmental Management. The afternoon session was highlighted with a Developers’ Forum.
Under the theme “Engineering a Collaborative Approach to Development”, the Committee sought to present a conference week which would bring into Day 3: Management and Engineering focus the link between a country’s Workshop was well received. The workshop engineering capacity and its economic included topics such as the Fire Prevention development and provide a diverse set of Planning, Types of Maintenance exhibits, demonstrations and presentations. Management, and Maintenance Inspection This year the JIE extended their collaboration with the Canadian Society of J A M A I C A I N S T I T U T I Oand N OScheduling. F ENGINEERS