2016 Archive
- New Microneedle Platform Technology
- 5th UK & Ireland FOAM/OpenFOAM User Day
- Science Apprentice
- Neograft Teams with CÚRAM Research Group
- Ciara Giles Doran won a silver medal at SSRA16
- Fengzhou Fang
- Dr Peter Theobald will present research on novel material structures
- Image Guided Navigation in Airways - Monday 18th April, 1pm, room 204
- MME PhD takes pride of place in UCD's Women's GAA
- Traumatic Brain Injury seminar - Monday 7th March, room 204
- Industrial giant Bekaert launches University Technology Centre in UCD
- Engineers Journal to run series of articles from UCD
- 5th year student braves dragons on Hackathon winning team
- PhD student, Kevin Doherty, wins the IOM3 World Lecture Competition.
- UCD students win ESB Engineering Challenge…again!
- UCD getting ready for launch – MASER 13 rocket featured on SSW
- Presenting in the Dragon’s Den – Barry Brophy meets Bobby Kerr
- UCD to take lead on European Space Agency project
- Biomedical Engineering awarded EU funding for diabetes research.
PhD student, Kevin Doherty, has won the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining World Lecture Competition.
Monday, 22 August, 2016
Kevin Doherty has seen off competitors from the UK, US, Brazil, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, South Africa and Hong Kong to win the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining World Lecture Competition.
On 22 October 2015, Kevin Doherty took first prize at the 11th Young Persons' World Lecture Competition, held annually by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, at the final in Drogheda. This is only the second time a local finalist has won the world final on home turf.
His lecture, New Thermal Control Material Systems for Interplanetary and Geosynchronous Spaceflight, fascinated the audience and judges and marked him as a clear winner. Kevin had earlier won the national award in Ireland, and had to compete with winners from the UK, US, Brazil, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, South Africa and Hong Kong to bag the overall prize.
The Young Persons' Lecture Competition is an annual competition that invites students and professionals up to the age of 28 to deliver a short lecture on a materials, minerals, mining, packaging, clay technology and wood science subjects. Entrants participate in local heats that culminate in a world final.
Second prize went to Kaushik Parida from Singapore with his lecture, Piezoelectric Energy Harvest: Converting Ambient Mechanical Energy to Useful Electrical Energy, judges commended his presentation skills and his use of visual aids. Third place was awarded to Mariana Viegas Greco de Oliveira who represented the 2016 host country, Brazil.