Tagged: Engineering & News
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‘Irish engineers are becoming a massive brand in Canada’, says Moving2Canada founder News
01.03.2013 Ruairi Spillane, the man behind Moving2Canada (a website that has given free guidance and advice to more than 35,000 Irish people looking to make the move to Canada), tells us... -
Energy research project generates electricity from cooking stoves (video) News
27.02.2013 Researchers from the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) recently completed a research project in Malawi in Africa to generate electricity from portable... -
Engineering students look to Ireland’s data centre opportunity News
26.02.2013 Engineers Ireland, as part of its Engineers Week events, has tasked third-level students to come up with ideas on how Ireland can harness its natural advantages and to look to...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Infrastructure Management, Graduate, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Data Centre -
Dyson’s big reveal – a tap that washes and dries your hands News
05.02.2013 Dyson’s big secret is out – its latest revolutionary invention is the Dyson Airblade Tap hand dryer that washes hands and dries them without people having to leave the sink. The... -
Greenwave science programme launches for students to track spring’s arrival News
04.02.2013 The Irish Government’s Discover Science & Engineering initiative has launched this year’s Greenwave programme, which calls on primary school students to carry out nature and... -
Dublin to host science hackathon in March News
31.01.2013 Dublin will be playing host to its second Science Hack Day this March, as scientists, engineers, programmers and designers will have the opportunity to team up to find solutions... -
Engineering firm creates 11 jobs as Middle East strategy pays dividends News
28.01.2013 Engineering consultancy Fehily Timoney’s focus on the Middle East is paying off with €2.5m in contract wins leading to 11 new jobs. Some 30pc of the company's turnover now comes...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Development, Design -
Microelectronics sector expects to hire 200 graduates every year News
28.01.2013 Ireland’s thriving microelectronics sector expects to create 200 jobs every year for engineering graduates. That’s the message industry group Midas Ireland has for Leaving...Categories: Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Development, Design, Computers -
Women nerd heroes (infographic) News
22.01.2013 Women have always contributed to technological innovation and as a new year gets under way, an infographic looks back at six ladies who have altered tech history with their... -
IDA Ireland tells Class of 2013 students their best hopes lie in ICT industry News
17.01.2013 IDA Ireland has told Leaving Cert students about to file their CAO applications that the best job opportunities for the future will lie in ICT, digital media and language-based...Tags: Digital Media, CAO, Leaving Certificate, IDA Ireland, Software, ICT, Engineering, Start-ups, Third Level, Science -
Invest NI seeking start-ups for 2013 Propel programme News
04.12.2012 Invest Northern Ireland (NI) is now seeking applications from entrepreneurs with business ideas for new ventures for its Propel programme that will run in 2013. -
Tyndall’s Cian Ó Mathúna named IEEE fellow for power supply research News
15.01.2013 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named Dr Cian Ó Mathúna from Tyndall National Institute in Cork as a fellow as a result of his contribution to... -
Russia to send unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015 News
15.01.2013 Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos is planning to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015, with the spacecraft set to launch from Russia’s new cosmodrome that will... -
Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Solar buys two US solar projects for up to US$2.5bn News
03.01.2013 Renewable energy company MidAmerican Solar, part of the US billionaire and investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, is to purchase two large-scale solar... -
Dublin to host annual science festival from next year News
20.12.2012 Dublin will play host to a three-day science festival next year, with the science event set to be an annual fixture in the city. The news was announced today as Dublin ended its...Categories: Science, Research, Networking, Life Sciences, Government, Engineering, Education, Economy -
UCD, RCSI and TCD create new biomedical engineering alliance News
19.12.2012 A new collaboration called the Dublin Biomedical Engineering Research Initiative is being launched this week by Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD) and... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 25-21 News
14.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Green Tech, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Development, Bio Tech -
Surface engineer Dr Denis Dowling scoops NovaUCD innovation award News
06.12.2012 NovaUCD has given its 2012 Innovation Award to Dr Denis Dowling, the director of the Surface Engineering Research Group at University College Dublin (UCD), in recognition of the... -
33 new jobs for Belfast as engineering firm invests stg£3.5m in expansion News
04.12.2012 Marlborough Engineering, a firm that supplies precision engineered components to the technology, aerospace, power and construction sectors, is to create 33 new jobs as part of a... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 95-91 News
26.11.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs...Tags: Engineers Ireland, Engineering, Google, Innovation, Solar, Maths, Science, Science Review 2012