Speaker: Bill Doherty, executive vice-president EMEA, Cook Medical Medical treatment is set to be revolutionised over the coming decade as advances in technology means that the management of illness and disease will become a more personalised experience. Speaking at a presentation in the University of Limerick, organised by Engineers Ireland and the Materials and Surface Science Institute at the university, Bill Doherty, executive vice-president EMEA with Cook Medical, explained ...

Shannon Coiled Springs (SCS) was chosen as a case study for the Forfás Making it in Ireland – Manufacturing 2020 project because of the company’s strategy of diversifying from its base in construction products to identifying new market opportunities and technologies in the medical devices field. SCS is based in Limerick and was founded in 1978 to supply the construction sector, manufacturing wall ties and springs. The company had gained some 60-70% of the construction market for wall ties ...

  Authors: R A Barrett 1,2; N.P. O'Dowd 3; S B Leen 1,2 1 Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway 2 Ryan Institute for Environmental, Marine and Energy Research, NUI Galway 3 Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical & Biomedical Engineering, Materials & Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick From the Parsons steam turbine of 1884 to the Whittle gas turbine of 1930 and more recent state-of-the-art combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT), the ...

  Authors: Sinead O’Keeffe, Denis McCarthy, Elfed Lewis (Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre, University of Limerick); Peter Woulfe (Department of Radiotherapy Physics, Galway Clinic); Mark Grattan and Alan Hounsell (Radiotherapy Physics, Northern Ireland Cancer Centre, Belfast City Hospital) Research led by the University of Limerick – in collaboration with the Galway Clinic, Northern Ireland Cancer Centre and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – is developing technology to ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a ‘silent killer’, responsible for 15,000 deaths annually in the UK alone. This cardiovascular disease is termed a ‘silent killer’ due to its deadly but somewhat symptomless nature. The majority of people with AAA are completely unaware of its presence and it is often only detected following a frequently fatal rupture of the structure. AAA is a balloon-like dilation occurring in the abdominal region of the aorta, which is the main blood vessel responsible ...

Limerick’s water supply network has been improved through the use of pipeline cleaning technology, which has improved capacity and flow rates of trunk mains. The cleaning system took water from the raw water source to the Clareville treatment works by the river Shannon. Powered by water recycling vehicles, this was the first time that the Typhoon cleaning system has been utilised in Ireland, using water-jetting technology to clean internal pipe walls and remove solid mineral build-up and ...