Technical Communication lecturer Barry Brophy was featured in the Sunday Independent last weekend with an article on sports communication based on interviews with three of Ireland’s well-known sports pundits: Eamon Dunphy, Brian Kerr and Dermot Gilleece.

I hate to hear someone described as ‘boring’. It’s such a damning and unsympathetic judgement, and surely it’s relative? Do different people not find different people boring? Or ‘interesting’? What makes somebody interesting? Relative again? In regard to the sports analysts you find interesting; what makes them interesting? It’s not an easy question to answer...

Three Case Studies from Engineering and Architecture runners-up in 2020 UCD Impact Competition

Assistant Professor Jennifer Keenahan from UCD School of Civil Engineering, Dr Kevin Nolan from UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Associate Professor Francesco Pilla from UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy have been named runners-up in the 2020 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition.

European researchers collaborate to prevent risks to transport infrastructure

UCD researchers are helping to develop a new platform to anticipate, manage and mitigate natural risks to Europe's road and rail infrastructure networks along the Atlantic coast.
SIRMA (Strengthening Infrastructure Risk Management in the Atlantic Area) aims to significantly improve the resilience of such infrastructures, particularly in the face of climate change impacts.

Assoc. Prof. Vikram Pakrashi and Dr. Basuraj Bhowmik recently won the SFI MaREI Award 2020 on Research Excellence.

Assoc. Prof. Vikram Pakrashi and Dr. Basuraj Bhowmik recently won the Science Foundation Ireland MaREI (Energy, Climate, and Marine Research & Innovation) Award 2020 on Research Excellence. This award highlighted the contribution of the group in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for built infrastructure systems. "Real-time implementation of SHM has been an important aspect for a long time and now we have been able to develop a robust framework around it", said Dr. Bhowmik

UCD team wins prestigious ESB Inter-Colleges Challenge 2020

University College Dublin students Aoife Cunningham (from Kildare), Scott Mulligan (Dublin), Allannah Duffy (Mayo) and Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Dublin) will represent Ireland at the international engineering and commerce competition, ENGCOMM 2021 after their team won this year’s ESB Inter-Colleges Challenge.

Engineers Ireland’s Engineering Excellence Digital Series

Engineering Excellence Digital Series, held in association with ESB, recognising Ireland’s Engineering Community in 2020.

Digital Animation for Educators

As part of the Learning Enhancement Projects Funding Scheme, the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering is offering an intensive 3 day course on 3D animation for educators.