|
Name |
Specialist Areas |
Year 1 Module |
|
Aidan Harney |
Education & Professional Development |
Induction Day (Participants & Mentors) |
|
Declan Cunningham |
Project Management |
Project Management Module 1 |
|
Declan Cunningham |
Project Management |
Project Management Module 2 |
|
Albert Plant |
SPC, Design of Experiments, Response Surface Methodology, FMEA, Problem Solving and Statistical Sampling |
Statistical Analysis |
|
John McGowan |
Strategic Business Management |
Leadership & Management Skills |
|
Phil Kildea |
Business Policy, Business Mentor and Coaching |
Negotiation & Influencing Skills |
|
Eddie O’Neill |
Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and Strategy Development |
Lean Principles for Professional Engineers |
|
John Harrington |
Strategic Sustainable Development |
Sustainability for Professional Engineers |
Aidan Harney
Induction Day (Participants & Mentors): Aidan Harney, BA MBS, Chartered FCIPD, CPD Director, Engineers Ireland
Aidan Harney is Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Director at Engineers Ireland. 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. He has returned to DCU to guest lecture on his research topic: mentoring.
Aidan’s current role focuses on overall CPD policy and strategy for Engineers Ireland, involving as stakeholders our members, employers, Government, third level institutions, training providers and other representative bodies.
Declan Cunningham
Project Management
Declan Cunningham is one of Ireland’s top tutors on the subject of Project Management for engineers. He brings more than 25 years national and international experience as a senior-level Project Manager. He completed a Masters in Project Management in the University of Limerick and now develops and delivers numerous project management training projects with the Centre for Project Management in UL.
Albert Plant
Statistical Analysis
Albert Plant is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of Engineers Ireland (FIEI). He is a leading consultant and trainer, with a Masters degree from Trinity College, Dublin, and a B.Sc. degree majoring in statistics and mathematics. He heads up a consultancy and training practice based in Ireland. His experience spans consultancy and training in statistical applications in Ireland, the UK and the USA. He undertakes statistical analysis on a consultancy basis for several multi-national organisations. Albert has developed and presented training courses on SPC, Design of Experiments, Response Surface Methodology, FMEA, Reliability Engineering, Problem Solving, Statistical Sampling, and other quality topics, in addition to this training course on Statistical Analysis.
John McGowan
Leadership and Management Skills
John McGowan is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of Engineers Ireland (FIEI) and also Past President of Engineers Ireland. He received his BE in Civil Engineering from NUI, Galway in 1970 and his Masters degree in Structural Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 1974. He was appointed MD of McNamara Construction in 2006.
Prior to this he was Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing Group, and Director, Corporate Services for Intel Corporation worldwide where he was jointly responsible for facilities management, utility supply, manufacturing support, safety, security, real estate and construction services for all Intel operations across the globe, administering an annual expense budget of $2 billion, and an annual capital spend of $1 billion.
Prior to joining Intel, John was a director of Jacobs International, with his final project for that firm being the design and construction of Intel’s Fab 10 facility in Leixlip, Co Kildare. John is a member of the Institute of Directors. The Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland honoured him with the Engineer of the Year Award in 2000. He was awarded the NUIG 2003 NTL Award for Engineering, IT and Mathematics.
Phil Kildea
Negotiation and Influencing Skills
Phil Kildea is a trainer, business mentor and executive coach with 20 years’ training experience. He works with clients from a broad range of industries in the Private and Public sectors. He has several qualifications including a Masters of Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Studies (1st Class Hons), a Graduateship in Marketing from MII, a National Diploma in Personnel Management, Graduate Diploma in Executive Coaching, and Certificates in Training and Continuing Education. Phil is a certified NLP practitioner (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and also lectures part time in Business Policy for the Institute of Public Administration (IPA).
Eddie O’Neill
Lean Principles
Eddie O’Neill previously held a Senior Business Process Improvement (Lean Sigma) Consultancy role within Dell Computer Corporation, were he championed strategy development and deployment across EMEA Sales & Marketing organisation. He has extensive experience in people management. He is a recognised team leader and motivator with strong communication and inter-personal skills. Eddie is an expert in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma to Green Belt and is a qualified trainer.
John Harrington
Sustainability for Professionals
John Harrington is the Director of RealEyes Sustainability Ltd. He is part of a global network of sustainability experts and business leaders through his affiliation with The Natural Step International. John introduced the framework for strategic sustainable development into Ireland in 2007 and set up RealEyes to help organisations use it and other strategic tools to improve and align what they were already doing on sustainability. Recent RealEyes clients include Dublin City Council, RPA, Cybercom and the Green Awards. John has a BSc from Trinity College and a DBS from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business.