DIT Honours Degree at 100 miles per hour

What a way to finish your Honours Degree in Manufacturing & Design Engineering or Mechanical Engineering at DIT Bolton Street by competing at the Silverstone (UK) circuit in the IMechE Formula Student motor racing competition. The event took place over four days in July 2017. Since 2010, supported by a team of 4 expert staff at DIT, industry sponsorship, a slice of the school budget and access to a range of workshops, specialist tools and pre testing at Mondello Park (Kildare), an ...

Adapting the FlexiArch bridge system for widening a bridge in Bristol

This is the second in a two-part series on the FlexiArch system. It is recommended that part one of this series, entitled ‘The FlexiArch bridge system: from concept to application’, is read prior to the article below (1). The Teewell Hill arch bridge, owned by South Gloucestershire Council in the UK, had been constructed in the 1840s over the Bristol to Bath railway line (now a popular cycle route) in what is now a busy residential area. The bridge had become an accident blackspot due ...

IT Sligo student research into strategic links to improve the current skill shortage

The recession in the UK has had a profound impact on the engineering and construction industries – not only financially, but also socio-economically. A brain drain, which has come about due to the misconception that the construction industry is still suffering, has created a crisis due to a skills shortage. The industry will now have to rebuild itself, especially in terms of narrowing the skills gap of those entering into higher-level education and considering a career in engineering and ...

The FlexiArch bridge system - from concept to application

The strength, stiffness, durability and minimal maintenance attributes of arch bridges are acknowledged by structural engineers throughout the world. In addition, their aesthetic qualities are universally acclaimed, so much so that there are hundreds of thousands of arch bridges in the world (some over 2000 years old). Thus, in the early 1990s, Gordon Millington (formerly president of Engineers Ireland) asked the first author the question, ‘Why is it that so few arch bridges have been ...

Crumlin's hybrid cardiac cath lab - essential health infrastructure for Ireland

The new Hybrid Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin is the only fully equipped paediatric cardiology service on the island of Ireland to treat young children with heart defects. It is a new design build project by Clancy Construction delivered on time and within budget in 2016 through the use of building information modelling (BIM) by an interdisciplinary project team including RPS as mechanical and electrical consulting engineers. The project was ...

TCD engineer takes Zero-G ‘vomit comet’ to study steam-powered spacecraft

Dr Tony Robinson’s work for the European Space Agency (ESA) involves exploring how deep space travel might one day become possible. Recently, however, his research took him across the Atlantic to explore zero gravity for himself at 32,000 feet. Robinson is a researcher in Trinity College Dublin’s CONNECT centre – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks – and an assistant professor in mechanical and manufacturing engineering in the university. He was taking a ...

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