It’s all change these days in Uisce Éireann’s infrastructure delivery team as director Brian Sheehan tells the Engineers Journal about his new management team and fills us in on the work they have been doing behind the scenes to ready themselves for a highly ambitious delivery programme in 2023, including the team’s biggest recruitment drive to date. 

The air-to-water dispenser makes up to 10 litres of alkaline water per day.

The transition to a circular economy requires a pressing need for new skills and competences. Undergraduate engineers should be equipped with the key skills and knowledge to apply circular thinking in their future careers, writes TU Dublin's Dr Aimee Byrne.

Researchers hope designers can apply techniques from origami to medical devices, architecture, robotics and aerospace.

Christopher J Marshall, Chartered Engineer, FIEI, who died on October 3, 2022, has been described by his many colleagues and friends as 'a gentleman and gifted engineer'.

If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it helps to have a background in geotechnical engineering, writes Joseph Scalia, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Colorado State University.