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Projects from Engineering and Architecture researchers recognised in UCD Research Impact Competition 23Jan
Projects from Engineering and Architecture researchers recognised in UCD Research Impact Competition

Today, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact Professor Orla Feely announced the winner and runners-up of the 2022 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition.
The annual competition encourages researchers of all disciplines to write a case study that tells the story of how their work has made a positive difference.
Dr Amiya Pandit wins the Thomas Mitchell medal of excellence 07Dec
Dr Amiya Pandit wins the Thomas Mitchell medal of excellence

Dr Amiya Pandit, Post-Doctoral researcher in the UCD School of Civil Engineering was awarded the Thomas Mitchell medal of excellence. The Thomas Mitchell medal is awarded to the top ranked postdoctoral scholar in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics category in the Government of Ireland Irish Research Council funding scheme, marking outstanding achievement.

Asia Matters Business Awards 2022 06Dec
Asia Matters Business Awards 2022

UCD were announced as the winners of the Higher Education Partnership of the Year award category at the 2022 Asia Matters Business Awards Ceremony on Friday 2nd December. This award recognises the successful partnership between UCD and Chang’an University – the Chang’an Dublin International College of Transportation (CDIC).
TRA Visions Young Researcher Competition award winner 16Nov
TRA Visions Young Researcher Competition award winner

Congratulations to PhD student Robert Corbally who was awarded 3rd prize in the 'road' category of the TRA Visions Young Researcher Competition for his PhD research where he is developing an approach for network level bridge health monitoring using in-vehicle sensors and machine learning. Robert received the award during the opening ceremony of the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference in Lisbon this week.

Award for Jennifer Keenahan 08Nov
Award for Jennifer Keenahan

Dr Jennifer Keenahan and her co-authors were awarded the Infrastructure Asset Management prize from the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) at the annual Awards Ceremony 2022 in London

2022 CERAI Lifetime Achievement Award awarded to Prof. Eugene O’Brien. “Lifetime award winner bridges the research – practice gap.” 26Aug
2022 CERAI Lifetime Achievement Award awarded to Prof. Eugene O’Brien. “Lifetime award winner bridges the research – practice gap.”

As a person with national and global impact at the highest level and a world-renowned expert in the area of weigh-in-motion of bridges, the 2022 Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland’s Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Prof. Eugene O’Brien of University College Dublin.

Dr. Muhammad Arslan Khan receiving the Broberg Medal 26Jul
Dr. Muhammad Arslan Khan receiving the Broberg Medal

Dr. Muhammad Arslan Khan, who completed his PhD in 2020 from the School of Civil Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD), won the Broberg Medal for the Best PhD in UCD in Mechanics, 2020 on 2nd June 2022. Dr. Khan’s PhD focuses on the Bridge Health Monitoring using the direct vibration measurements from bridges, novel redeployment strategies and the bridge weigh-in-motion techniques. His PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Eugene OBrien and Dr. Daniel McCrum, aims to detect structural damage of bridges without the need for any traffic disruptions and difficult sensors deployment. Currently, Dr. Khan is working, as a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCD, in the area of Drive-by Railway Infrastructure Monitoring, using train accelerations, automation, and machine learning techniques.

Academic Advising in Civil Engineering: Design and Evaluation of a Hybrid Model 09May
Academic Advising in Civil Engineering: Design and Evaluation of a Hybrid Model

A project to formalise and expand Academic Advising has been implemented at the UCD Civil Engineering School. The goals of this project were twofold: on the one hand, it aimed at training faculty members in Academic Advising roles and providing them with the necessary resources. On the other hand, the project sought to expand student interaction, in particular by engaging students informally in order to build a rapport between them and the academic advisors that we expect will bring long term benefits.

Winthrop Engineering Student Prizes 13Apr
Winthrop Engineering Student Prizes

On the evening of 13th April the Head of the School of Civil Engineering, Associate Professor Amanda Gibney, welcomed students, parents, friends, supporters, faculty and our prize sponsor, Winthrop Engineering Ltd., to our Student Awards Evening. Tom O'Leary, the Chief People Officer from Winthrop Engineering, addressed the audience, congratulating the prize winners, noting the key role which civil and structural engineers play in construction and the excellent opportunities which exist in Winthrop Engineering for graduates of our programmes.
CWRR researcher Dr. Sarah Cotterill wins NovaUCD Award 30Mar
CWRR researcher Dr. Sarah Cotterill wins NovaUCD Award

Dr Sarah Cotterill was awarded “Consultancy of the Year” at the 2022 NovaUCD Innovation Awards, for a policy brief completed for An Fóram Uisce through ConsultUCD.
The study entitled ‘A Framework for Improving Domestic Water Conservation in Ireland’, found that almost a fifth of the energy used in Irish homes is used for heating water, and therefore a relatively small reduction in household water use (of say 20%) in all homes in Ireland, could lead to a significant reduction (hundreds of thousands of tonnes) of greenhouse gas emissions a year.
Making Building on Sand a Realistic Option 21Mar
Making Building on Sand a Realistic Option

n the Bible Saint Mathew warns of “the foolish man who built his house on sand”. Dr Michael Long and his colleagues at the UCD-based, Science Foundation Irelandfunded Irish Center for Research and Applied Geoscience (iCRAG) are hoping that a project they have recently commenced will overcome such uncertainty. The project explores the potential use of a relatively new approach to ground improvement, making use of either bacteria or enzymes to accelerate the natural process of cementation between grains of sand to increase their strength and load bearing capacity.
Dr. Abdollah Malekjafarian will be leading WindLEDeRR project 21Feb
Dr. Abdollah Malekjafarian will be leading WindLEDeRR project

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has announced that it has awarded a total funding of almost €20m to 49 projects supporting and enabling a wide range of energy research in Ireland. This includes the three-year WindLEDeRR project led by Dr. Abdollah Malekjafarian from UCD Civil Engineering, in partnership with Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland Galway, University College Cork, Munster Technological University and Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions with a total funding of €628,265.
Strategies to Keep the Taps Running, Whatever Happens 07Feb
Strategies to Keep the Taps Running, Whatever Happens

Climate change is just one more factor making the unpredictable world of fresh water supply and demand even more uncertain. Dr Sarah Cotterill is interested in finding ways of ensuring continuity of supply when, not if, water systems fail. Despite everyone’s best efforts this will happen, she says, possibly resulting from two or more things occurring at the same time or in swift succession. “That’s where resilience comes into play.” The arrival of just such an event, the COVID pandemic, provided her and a team of researchers from Ireland and the UK with the opportunity to examine how well existing water company risk management strategies performed in response to the challenges presented by a high impact, unpredictable threat. This information is of immense value in helping the water industry and policymakers devise better, more adaptable, approaches to risk management in an increasingly uncertain world.

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