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WANdisco plc establishes new software development centre in Belfast – 36 new jobs News
20.09.2012 Thirty-six new jobs are to be created in Belfast through the establishment of a new software development centre by collaboration software player WANdisco plc. Invest Northern... -
Siemens opens new centre in London to pioneer smarter, greener cities News
19.09.2012 Siemens is today opening a new centre in London called the Crystal, which the engineering and electronics giant is claiming will be the world's largest exhibition dedicated to... -
Check out the world’s fastest robot – can it even outrun Usain Bolt? (video) News
07.09.2012 A four-legged robot by the name of Cheetah that has been built by MIT spin-out Boston Dynamics, recently clocked up a speed of 44.7 km/h during testing, breaking its own speed... -
Malone Engineering to create 30 new jobs at Dublin base News
07.09.2012 Thirty new jobs are to be announced by Malone Engineering at its Ballycoolin, Dublin 15 base today, with Jobs Minister Richard Bruton, TD, set to visit the company to make a... -
21-year-old Irish James Dyson Award winner’s invention aims to prevent spread of hospital super-bugs News
30.08.2012 Am invention by Paddy Mulcahy, a 21 year old Limerick student, to prevent the spread of hospital infections has won the Irish leg of the 2012 James Dyson award. U-neat is an... -
A Technology Visa for Ireland could generate 100,000 new jobs (video) News
20.08.2012 A thought-provoking video just been put live by tech investor and RTE Dragon Sean O’Sullivan’s Open Ireland initiative, which suggests that for zero cost the rollout of a...Categories: Upskilling, Software & Web Development, Software, Science, Investments, Graduate, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital BusinessTags: Job Creation, Sean O'Sullivan, -
New meteorological rooftop lab opens to measure Dublin’s urban climate News
10.08.2012 A new rooftop lab that’s poised on the roof of Dublin Institute of Technology’s (DIT’s) Kevin Street building has just been unveiled. Researchers from DIT have created the... -
Electric motorbikes – are they the next big thing for urban transport? News
09.08.2012 While the global auto giants are vying to edge ahead in the marketplace with their electric and hybrid vehicle innovations, what has been happening in the motorbike space in...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, Mobility, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Design -
NUIG to offer students second-chance maths exam for its engineering and IT degrees News
09.08.2012 We’re edging closer to the Leaving Cert results next week, but one Irish university – NUI Galway – is giving students who have applied for engineering and IT degree courses... -
Most Irish maths teachers believe Project Maths will not improve results – survey News
08.08.2012 Engineers Ireland has called on industry to act to get students more interested in maths. The move from the engineering body comes in the wake of a survey of 253 members of the... -
Wind energy developer Simple Power signs 15-year agreement with Power NI News
08.08.2012 Northern Irish wind-energy company Simple Power has signed a 15-year agreement with the electricity retailer Power NI. The contract means the energy supplier will purchase power...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Final call for Irish entries to the global 2012 James Dyson Award News
02.08.2012 For any stragglers out there: design and engineering students from Ireland have until midnight tonight to submit their entries to the international James Dyson Design Award. -
NASA to host social media events in lead-up to Curiosity rover landing on Mars News
02.08.2012 Want to learn more about the much-anticipated landing of the Mars Science Laboratory's (MSL) Curiosity rover, which is set to alight on Mars on 5/6 August? NASA has sent the...Categories: Social Media, Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Internet, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Consumer Tech -
Eirgrid announces new chief executive: Fintan Slye News
27.07.2012 Energy infrastructure company Eirgrid has announced that Fintan Slye is to become its next chief executive, taking over from current chief Dermot Byrne, who is retiring at the... -
Intel futurist Brian David Johnson on creating the tech of tomorrow News
26.07.2012 Intel, which employs more than 4,000 people in Ireland, relies on futurists like Brian David Johnson to deliver a vision of how we will be using technology in the future. -
US and Canada reveal details of new clean-energy action plan News
24.07.2012 What’s next for the US and Canada in terms of their clean-energy alliance? A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Environment Canada announced what the two...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green Tech, Green, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy -
Robotic teams vie to land privately built rovers on the moon News
23.07.2012 This past Friday marked the 43rd anniversary of Neil Armstrong becoming the first human being to set foot on the moon. And now 26 privately funded teams from around the globe... -
New transparent solar cells could lead to ‘smart windows’ that generate electricity News
23.07.2012 Imagine a day when the windows in your home could generate electricity. Well, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) say they have developed a new type of... -
Engineers Ireland adds tech category to annual Excellence Awards News
23.07.2012 The Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards has embraced a new category this year, the Technology of the Year Award, and entries are wanted from all engineering disciplines so the... -
BT has €75K in financial aid for students entering Young Scientist contest News
20.07.2012 Teams and individual students entering the next BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, and who are based more than 70km away from the RDS in Dublin, can now apply for...