Engineers Ireland President Martin Lowery Chartered Engineer, FIEI.
Engineers Ireland Presidential Address 2010
Martin Lowery Chartered Engineer, FIEI will give his Presidential Address entitled Enterprising Engineers on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 6.30pm in the Lecture Theatre, Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
Martin Lowery BE, M.Eng Sc, CEng, FIEI, FIAE was the Chief Executive of Coillte Teoranta, the Irish Forestry Board, from January 1989 until he retired in July 2006. He joined Coillte as its first chief executive when it was established as a commercial state-owned company, taking over the assets and staff of the former Forest Service. He led the transformation of Coillte from a civil service organisation to a successful commercial company.
This involved major change in Coillte’s forestry business and the acquisition of two major wood processing industries, SmartPly and Medite. Prior to Coillte, he was employed by IDA Ireland from 1971 to 1989. As executive director from 1984 to 1989 he had executive responsibility for a number of areas including the electronics division, the natural resources division (includes food), and the international services division. He was also Chairman of IDA’s International Services Committee during this period.
Pictured (l-r): Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan TD; Professor Ger Hurley, NUI Galway; and President of NUI Galway, Dr James J. Browne charging the Bord Gáis electric car in the on-campus parking area for electric and hybrid vehicles.
NUI Galway launches energy systems programme
The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon
Ryan TD, officially launched the B.E. Programme in Energy Systems
Engineering recently at NUI Galway
The course, which will be based in the new engineering building
currently under construction at NUI Galway, has been developed in
partnership with key members of the energy industry, including ESB, GE
Energy, Airtricity, Bord Gáis, and Wavebob, as well as Arup and RPS –
two consulting engineers’ practices. The Energy Systems Engineering programme will incorporate aspects of
traditional civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, with emphasis
on energy policy, economics, environmental issues and a strong focus on
informatics.
The programme will include a range of additional optional modules which
will provide students with flexibility to choose diverse career paths.The multidisciplinary programme will culminate in integrated design
projects that address the sourcing, conversion and utilisation of
energy. Subjects on offer will also include strong elements of civic
engagement and service learning, with, for example, student volunteers
travelling to India and Africa to install solar systems. Students are
also required to study a broad range of related subjects, including
economics, sociology and politics, as well as law and science.
SFI links 349 firms with college researchers
The Government’s science agency, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), linked 349 firms with college researchers last year in a move that will create jobs by harnessing the commercial potential of college research, according to the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Conor Lenihan TD.
Minister Lenihan was launching SFI’s 2009 annual report. “Collaborations and partnerships between Ireland’s scientific research and enterprise communities are now being formed at an unprecedented level and they are a critical component of our developing ‘smart’ economy. “Last year, SFI linked 184 multinational firms and 165
small-and-medium-sized enterprises with academic teams. And the agency
supported 29 top-class research centres and 3,225 researchers in higher
education institutions,” said Minister Lenihan. See www.sfi.ie for SFI’s Annual Report 2009.
2010 symposium on bridges and concrete
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University
College Cork, and the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental
Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology are pleased to host the 2010
joint symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland (BRI
‘10) and Concrete Research in Ireland (CRI ‘10) on September 2 and 3
The symposium will be jointly opened by Dr Michael Murphy, President,
UCC and Dr Brendan J. Murphy Chartered Engineer FIEI, President, CIT.
In addition to over 70 state-of-the-art technical papers, there will
also be three keynote speakers reflecting the main themes of the joint
symposium. This year, these keynote addresses are as follows:
On bridge research – Professor Mark Stewart (University of Newcastle,
Australia), Life Cycle Optimisation of Maintenance Strategies for RC
Structures in Chloride Environments;
On concrete research – Peter Anthony (Horgan Lynch), Concrete in the Built Environment – Past, Present and Future; and,
On geotechnical research – Dr Eric Farrell (Trinity College Dublin) Lessons Learnt – Problems to Solve.
BRI ‘10 and CRI ‘10 have obtained CPD approval from Engineers Ireland
and members of that organisation can avail of discounted registration
fees. There is also a considerably reduced registration fee for
students and unemployed engineers.
For more information, or to register
for the event, please visit www.bcri.ie
