Academic

Academic society logoThe Academic society is a special interest group for engineers who lecture or conduct research in third-level institutions or graduate students who aspire to careers in academia.

 

Its mission is to promote the advancement of academic standards in engineering and facilitate and organise activities for key academic groups. It aims to develop and disseminate a body of knowledge for engineers working within the academic community which will also serve those engineering professionals with an interest in academic topics. Members can benefit from: Networking with colleagues Networking with industry experts Keeping up to date with the latest events, technical presentations and access to research and support material. Attending events, courses, site visits and customised seminars to advance their continuous professional development.

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The science of statistics: its application in sports performance analytics

The word ‘statistics’ can be considered either as a collection of numbers or as an active science. In the case of the collection of numbers, ‘stats’ (i.e. data) are now ubiquitously, inexpensively and quickly collected in every walk of life: in health, in business, in sports. In terms of the active science, statistics (or data analytics, as it is becoming more popularly known) encapsulates collecting, modelling, visualising and drawing inference from data, while accounting for ...

Flexible pharmacy with portable system that can produce drugs on demand

MIT researchers have developed a compact, portable pharmaceutical manufacturing system that can be reconfigured to produce a variety of drugs on demand. Researchers have suggested that just as an emergency generator supplies electricity to handle a power outage, this system could be rapidly deployed to produce drugs needed to handle an unexpected disease outbreak, or to prevent a drug shortage caused by a manufacturing plant shutdown. “Think of this as the emergency backup for ...

Additive manufacturing, European environmental policy and Ireland’s ecosystem

Once every millennium, a more advanced process comes along to disrupt the normal way of doing things. It simplifies difficult tasks in such a way that just about everyone can participate in its revolution. Additive manufacturing, otherwise known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, falls into this category. The choice to include additive manufacturing into the hallowed circle of technical processes that have the ability to change the manufacturing industry is due to how it simplifies ...

The ESE Academy and ECubers – educating equipment-systems engineers of the future

SL Controls is a market leader in Equipment Systems Integration. We work with clients across the pharma, medical device, healthcare, food and beverage and technology sectors, all of which require high-level software integration expertise and regulatory compliance. Currently experiencing a period of rapid expansion, SL Controls has welcomed our 54th team member this week and are looking forward to recruiting another 20 engineers by mid-2017. We work closely with Ireland’s top educational ...

Engineers program cells to remember and respond to series of stimuli

Synthetic biology allows researchers to program cells to perform novel functions such as fluorescing in response to a particular chemical or producing drugs in response to disease markers. In a step toward devising much more complex cellular circuits, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have now programmed cells to remember and respond to a series of events. These cells can remember, in the correct order, up to three different inputs, but this approach should be scalable ...

Engineering the microstructure of tissues: introducing melt electrospinning writing

There are a wide range of cases where the human body is unable to heal naturally as a result of serious trauma or disease. Cases such as second- and third-degree burns, damaged blood vessels and large bone defects may require grafting procedures to complement and facilitate the complete healing of the damaged tissue. Repair of large bone defects, which are unable to heal naturally, are typically achieved by transplanting bone from one part of a patient’s body, such as the pelvis, to the ...

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