Conference generates insights on future of engineering educationDecember 2, 2019
On October 30, Engineers Ireland hosted a one-day conference focused on Irish engineering education in an international context and within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and Dr Diarmuid Ó Briain provides an overview of its presentations
The Creative Engine project – innovation and creativityDecember 2, 2019
The Creative Engine partners aim to help organisations embrace innovation and develop new ideas, and to ensure that engineering learners are equipped with the knowledge required to boost their employability opportunities, entrepreneurial capability and ability to become leading engineers, write DCU's K Martins, A Morrissey and JG Carton
Problem Based Learning: Case study of teaching mechanical engineering designDecember 2, 2019
This article presents a case study of how TU Dublin has addressed the question of how to teach students real world engineering skills relating to design and manufacturing, the objective being to help engineering graduates to be more effectively prepared for the challenges of professional engineering practice once they enter the workforce
Engineering education online – the future is nowDecember 2, 2019
Engineers are taking free online courses to gain new knowledge to address challenges in their work and to improve their employment prospects, writes Brian Mulligan
Why a focus on transport and mobility is keyDecember 2, 2019
The world around us is constantly changing and as we move through our lives, our needs change; what does not change is our fundamental need to be mobile – to get to the places we want to go, to see those that we want to see and to do the things we want or need to do, writes Dr Lorraine D'Arcy
Adding value(s) to the process – chemical engineering education for the 21st centuryDecember 2, 2019
Chemical engineers have always been in the business of adding value to processes, whether that be in the production of food and drinks, chemicals, fossil fuels or bio/pharmaceuticals writes University College Cork's Professor Edmond Byrne
Focus on biomedical – current status and future trendsDecember 2, 2019
Engineering education in Ireland is currently, and quite rightly, experiencing a resurgence, as evidenced by the most recent (2019) CAO point for engineering courses across the country, writes Prof Peter McHugh
A-STEP 2030 project presents picture of skills needed to solve SDGsDecember 2, 2019
Communication and technical skills will still be the most important attributes required of engineers in the future, according to a study by the A-STEP 2030 Erasmus+ funded project, writes TU Dublin's Una Beagon
The alignment of the accreditation and programmatic review processesDecember 2, 2019
The benefit to the engineering community would be a reduction of process overlaps, significant saving in time and effort while ensuring both processes occur in the same time period, writes Maria Kyne
Finally, most parties take the UK’s housing crisis seriouslyDecember 2, 2019
For more than 20 years we have been researching and writing about the downgrading of public housing in the UK, but thankfully, the tide finally appears to be turning, write Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs
Designing humanity’s future in spaceDecember 2, 2019
The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in microgravity
Engineering skills and making political targets a realityDecember 2, 2019
Have you wondered what the future is going to look like by say, 2040, ask Sriram Kishore and Thomas Adams, NUI Galway
