Professor Tom Brazil
Thomas J. Brazil received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from University College Dublin in 1973, and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering by the National University of Ireland in 1977.
He subsequently worked on microwave sub-system development at Plessey Research (Caswell) UK, before returning to UCD in 1980. He is now holds the Chair of Electronic Engineering at UCD and is also Head Electronic Engineering. His research interests are in the fields of non-linear modelling and characterisation techniques at the device, circuit and system level. He also has interests in non-linear simulation algorithms and several areas of microwave sub-system design and applications. He has published widely in the international scientific literature in these fields.
Professor Brazil is Head of the Microwave Research Group in UCD, and he is one of the elected Professors on the University’s Governing Authority. He is involved in a wide range of international technical bodies and scientific conference committees, including those sponsored by the IEEE and the European Microwave Association. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003 and elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004. In 2008 he was elected as Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy.
Dr Alun J Carr
Name: Dr. Alun J. Carr, Senior Lecturer, Rm 207
Qualifications: B.Sc. (Metallurgy) 1982, Ph.D. ('New Hardmetals') 1986, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Affiliations:
• Member, Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (formerly Institute of Ceramics), since 1987.
• Fellow, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, since 1994.
• Member, TMS, since 2001
• Member, American Ceramic Society, since 2001.
Teaching Interests:
• University College Dublin (National University of Ireland, Dublin). College Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, since 1991.
Research/Industrial experience
• Cookson Group plc. Research Investigator, Central Research, 1989-1991.
• University of Strathclyde. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Metallurgy, 1987-1989.
• AFRC Institute of Engineering Research. Higher Scientific Officer, Machine Dynamics and Reliability Group, 1986-1987.
Subjects Taught
• MEEN 1004 Materials Science & Engineering
• MEEN 2005 Materials Science and Engineering
• MEEN 3005 Materials Engineering
• MEEN 4017 Technical Ceramics
• MEEN 4007 Bioengineering
Research Interests:
• Intersttital alloys for hardmetals
• Sialon ceramics and ceramic-matrix composites
• Rheocasting
Research Groups:
Current Research Projects:
• Titanium boride-based hardmetals
Books edited
1. FitzPatrick, D. P. and Carr, A. J. (eds) (2001) Bioengineering in Ireland 7: Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Dublin: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin. ISBN 190227735x.
1. Prendergast, P. J., Lee, T. C., and Carr, A. J. (eds) (2000) Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Society of Biomechanics, Dublin: Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. ISBN 0953880907.
Dr Martin Curley
Dr. Martin Curley is senior Principal Engineer and Director of Intel Labs Europe, which is a network of twenty labs and nine hundred Intel researchers and developers in Europe. Most recently Martin was Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel Corporation managing a network of IT Innovation centres catalyzing worldwide IT Innovation. Previously Martin has held a number of senior IT Management positions for Intel and held management and research positions at General Electric and Philips.
Martin is also Professor of Technology and Business Innovation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and co-Director of the Innovation Value Institute, helping lead a unique industry-academic open innovation consortium to advance IT management and innovation. Martin is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland and the British Computer Society. He is a frequent international keynote speaker on Innovation and Technology.
Martin is author of “Managing Information Technology for Business Value” published by Intel Press, January 04 and co-author of “Managing IT Innovation for Business Value” published in 2007 by Intel Press. Martin is also co-author of “Knowledge Driven Entrepreneurship – the key to social and economic transformation” published by Springer in January 2010.
Martin has a degree in Electronic Engineering, a Masters in Business Studies from University College Dublin, Ireland and a PhD in Information Systems from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Professor John Fitzpatrick
John Fitzpatrick is the Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin and the Head of the Engineering School. His research activities are flow structure interactions, aero-acoustics, noise & vibration analysis and experimental fluid mechanics. Current work includes experimental and prediction methodologies for noise generated by flows for aerospace applications, flow structure instabilities and signal processing for analysis of turbulence phenomena. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and the Irish Academy of Engineering. http://www.mme.tcd.ie/
Professor Vincent Fusco
Vincent Fusco obtained his Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (First Class Honours), PhD and DSc in Microwave Electronics from the Queen’s University of Belfast, where currently he holds a personal chair in High Frequency Electronic Engineering.
Professor Fusco’s research interests include active antenna and front-end MMIC techniques. He is research of the High Frequency Laboratories at QUB where he is also director of the International Centre for System on Chip for Advanced Microwireless.
Professor Fusco has published over 350 scientific papers in major journals and in referred international conferences. He has authored two text books, holds patents related to self-tracking antennas and has contributed invited chapters to several books. He is a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. In addition he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Professor Michael Gilchrist
Michael Gilchrist, FIMechE, FIMMM, FIEI, FInstP, is Head of the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at University College Dublin. His research interests are in the mechanical behaviour of nonlinear materials, including both polymers and biological tissue at different time and length scales. He has published widely in the international scientific literature in these fields and he has been awarded various national and international prizes for his scientific research as well as for his academic teaching.
Professor Gilchrist received BE and MEngSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Ireland (UCG) in 1986 and 1988, and PhD and DEng degrees from the University of Sheffield in 1992 and 2008, respectively. He is involved in a wide range of international technical organisations and scientific conferences, including those sponsored by IUTAM. He has been Ireland’s representative to IUTAM since 2010.
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Professor Eileen Harkin-Jones
Eileen Harkin-Jones, FIMechE, FIChemE, FRSA, is Professor of Polymer Engineering in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast.
Her main areas of research are in materials development, particularly polymer nanocomposites and in the optimization and simulation of free surface moulding processes. She currently leads a number of multi-million pound research consortia in the processing and modelling of polymer nanocomposites. She has published over 100 papers and won research funding in excess of £5 million. She serves on the editorial boards of 4 international journals and is a member of peer review research panels in the UK, Ireland, Norway, Canada. EHJ has a keen interest in promoting STEM , chairing the N.I WISE Committee (2002-2005) and winning a number of national awards for her work in promoting STEM .
Mr Aidan Harney
Aidan Harney, BA MBS, is Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Director with Engineers Ireland. Aidan previous worked as Manager of the Engineers Ireland CPD Accredited Employer scheme, co-funded by the Irish Government, through the National Training Fund, and as a Professional Development Executive with Engineers Ireland, promoting the CPD scheme in industry. Prior to joining Engineers Ireland he held a management position in the financial services firm AIG Life Ireland Ltd. and was a management consultant with Peter Hancock International for some time. He has provided management consultancy advice and training to a large number of firms, across all sectors of engineering, in both the public- and private sector. He is a member of the Irish Institute of Training & Development and the International Mentoring Association. He represents Engineering Ireland at the UK & Ireland Inter-Professional CPD forum. He also represents Engineers Ireland on the CPD forum of FEANI.
Aidan holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and a Business Studies Masters in Human Resource Strategies from Dublin City University Executive Business School.
Emeritus Professor John Kelly
Honorary Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland 1990 -
Career:
Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering 2000
In 2000 he became Emeritus Professor University College Dublin
Publications: to Assess Rapid Crack Propagation in Polyethylene Gas Pipe ", by P. E. O'Donoghue, M. F. Kanninen and S. C. Grigory (in press, Computer Modeling and Simulation in Engineering). (ASME) Pressure Vessels and Piping Division
Author and co-author of some hundred research and professional publications in national and international journals. Co-author of one book; author of several book chapters; editor of a number of international journal publications including Founding Editor of the journal Industry & Higher Education. Principal author and editor of numerous reports on international co-operation in higher education projects, commissioned by the European Commission in Brussels and by the Higher Education Authority in Ireland. Co-editor and author of EU publication in association with the Greek Rector’s Conference; “The Socrates Programme: A Step Towards a European University” (DG XXII Education, Training & Youth).
Dr Patricia Kieran
Dr. Patricia Kieran is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering at University College Dublin. She graduated from UCD in 1985; she received an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla (1986) and a PhD from UCD (1996). In 1996, she joined the staff in the School of Biotechnology at Dublin City University, where she was involved in the BSc degree program in Biotechnology and developed research activities in biochemical engineering, with particular interest in shear sensitivity and engineering characterization of fermentation systems. In 1999, she returned to UCD.
She currently works in the area of Engineering Education. In 2007, Dr Kieran was appointed as a UCD Fellow in Teaching & Academic Development; in 2009, she was appointed UCD Senior Fellow in Teaching & Academic Development. She is a 2009 recipient of an ExxonMobil Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching and a 2000 recipient of an Exxon Mobil Teaching Fellowship. She is actively involved in the promotion of Engineering and is a member of the STEPS Advisory Panel.
Further details and a full list of publications are available at: http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/chembioprocessengineering/drpatriciamarykieran/
Professor Peter McHugh
Peter McHugh is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NUI Galway. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from UCG (1987), and an MSc (1990) and PhD (1992) in Mechanics of Solids from Brown University, Providence, USA. He joined NUI Galway as a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in 1991, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1997, Personal Professor in 2004, and finally appointed to the newly established Chair of Biomedical Engineering in 2007. His research interests are in biomechanics and in computational methods applied in biomedical engineering. He has 73 refereed journal publications, 12 PhD and 20 research masters graduates, and has generated over 7m Euro in research funding.
Professor Karsten Menzel
Biography
• Professor, University College Cork, 2006
• 'Habilitation', TU Dresden, Germany, 2003
• Scholarship of Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, 1996-1997
• Promotion Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.), TU Dresden, Germany, 1994
• DAAD-Scholarship Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA & Stanford University, CA, 1993
• Dipl.-Ing. (civil engineering - M.Eng.Sc.), TU Dresden, Germany, 1991
Current Posts
• Professor Information Technology in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (2006)
• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Date of Appointment: January 2006
Previous Posts
• Senior Researcher, TU Dresden, Germany, 2001-2005
• Lecturer and Researcher, TU Braunschweig, Germany, 1995-2000
• Post-Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 1996-1997
• Scientific Assistant, TU Dresden, Germany, 1991-1994
Professional affiliations
• American Society of Civil Engineers, Assoc. Member
• European Society for Engineering Education, Member
• Society of Collaborative Networks (Socolnet), Member
National and International Awards
• Feodor-Lynen-Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, 1996
• DAAD-Scholarship, 1993
International Activities
• European Construction Technology Platform, FA 7
Professor Richard Millar
Professor Richard Millar is Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Engineering. His teaching and research interests are in image compression, image processing and software engineering. He is active as a Fellow of the British Computer Society: a former member of Council, a moderator for the Society’s professional examinations and a past-Chairman of the Belfast Branch. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist and European Engineer as well as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Professor Padraic O'Donoghue
[An engineer and an educator, Padraic O’Donoghue has held academic positions at Irish universities for the last twenty years. He holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computing from UCC. He pursued doctoral studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating with his Ph.D. in 1985. He then worked at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio Texas for five years. He returned to Ireland in 1990 to take up a full-time academic position in Civil Engineering at UCD. In 1997, he was appointed as Professor of Civil Engineering at NUI Galway, a position that he still holds. He expanded his role at NUI Galway when he took on the post of Dean of Engineering and Informatics for a nine year period (2001-2010). Professor O’Donoghue has been active on a number of RIA committees and has served as Chair of the Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2001-05) and the Committee for Engineering Sciences (2009-to date).
Professor O’Donoghue has an extensive and varied set of research interests including work on advanced, non-linear computational methods in structural mechanics, particularly finite element methods. He has specialised in the development of fracture and damage mechanics techniques with many noteworthy contributions in the aeronautical and gas pipeline industries.
Professor O’Donoghue has published widely, including more than 75 peer reviewed papers in journals and international conferences, in addition to many invited presentations at symposia, workshops and universities around the world. Professor O’Donoghue has also chaired the organising committees for three prestigious international conferences.
A detailed CV may be found at http://www.nuigalway.ie/civileng/staff/pod.html
Professor Noel O'Dowd
Professor Noel O'Dowd holds the Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Limerick. He received his PhD in Solid Mechanics from Brown University, USA, in 1992 and spent one year as a Research Fellow at the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at California Institute of Technology. Prof. O'Dowd was on the academic staff at Imperial College London for thirteen years as Lecturer, Senior lecturer and Reader before taking up his current post in 2006. Professor O'Dowd is vice Chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering committee on Materials and Fabrication and is a visiting Professor at Imperial College London.
His research interests are in the fields of fracture mechanics, computational solid mechanics and mechanics of materials.
Typical industrial applications are in structural integrity of power generation plant, safe deployment of oil and gas pipelines and new processes and materials for gas turbine blades. His research sponsors have included Science Foundation Ireland, UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, European Union, British Energy, BP and ALSTOM Power. www.ul.ie/mae/people
Professor Richard Reilly
Richard Reilly is Professor of Neural Engineering at Trinity College, Dublin. This is a joint position between the School of Medicine and School of Engineering. He is Director and a principal investigator of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering (TCBE) and also a principal investigator at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN). His research focuses on modeling of human multisensory integration process and the human visual and auditory attention system using high density electrophysiological analysis, Diffusion Tensor Imaging and multimodal fusion for neurological diagnosis. This research is targeted at a quantitative understanding of sensory and cognitive processing. Professor Reilly’s research inputs to the cross-disciplinary translational research at Trinity College on ageing specifically though the Department of Medical Gerontology and to the Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing at St. James's Hospital. Professor Reilly was a Silvanus P. Thompson International Lecturer for the Institute of Electrical Engineers (1999-2001). In 2004 he was awarded a US Fulbright Award for research collaboration into multisensory integration with the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York. Professor Reilly received his BE degree in electronic engineering, an MEngSc and a PhD in biomedical engineering from University College Dublin.
Dr Tomas Ward
Dr. Ward received the B.E. (Electronic), M.Eng.Sc. (Biomedical Engineering) and Ph.D (Biomedical Engineering) degrees from University College, Dublin, Ireland in 1994, 1996 and 1999 respectively. In 1999 he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth. In 2000 he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering at NUI Maynooth where he is now Senior Lecturer. His current primary research areas include the application of brain computer interfaces for neurorehabilitation particularly in stroke, closed loop communication protocols for distributed interactive applications and virtual environments for cognitive and physical rehabilitation. More detailed information can be found at http://www.eeng.nuim.ie/~tward/
Professor Paul Whelan
Prof. Paul F Whelan B.Eng. (NIHE Dublin), M.Eng. (University of Limerick), Ph.D. (Cardiff University (UK)). During the period 1985-1990 he was employed by Industrial and Scientific Imaging Ltd and later Westinghouse (WESL), where he was involved in the research and development of industrial vision systems. He was appointed to the School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU) in 1990 and is the Professor of Computer Vision (Personal Chair) since 2005. Prof. Whelan established the Vision Systems Laboratory and its associated Vision Systems Group in 1990 and the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis (CIPA) in 2006 and currently serves as its director. As well as publishing over 140 peer reviewed papers, Prof. Whelan has co-authored 2 monographs namely "Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry" (1997) and "Machine Vision Algorithms in Java: Techniques and Implementation" (2000). His research interests include image segmentation, and its associated quantitative analysis (specifically mathematical morphology, colour-texture analysis) with applications in computer vision and computer aided detection and diagnosis focusing on translational research. Prof. Whelan is a Senior Member IEEE, a member of the IAPR, a Chartered Electrical Engineer and a Fellow of the IET. Prof. Whelan is a current member of the DCU Governing Authority.
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