Themes and Agenda of the E3
The E3 is an institutional engagement by the School of Engineering and the School of Natural Sciences in Trinity College Dublin. It emerges from the College’s traditional strengths in natural sciences and engineering, an area where - taken jointly - it has been ranked 10th in Europe in the 2013 Leiden Rankings.
All the disciplines of the Schools will be involved in delivery of the E3’s research, teaching and innovation activities, as will the research centres that are based within the Schools. The following are among the world-class domain strengths that the E3 will bring together:
- Telecommunications and signal processing
- Evolutionary and adaptive systems, and control
- Ecology
- Biodiversity
- Bioengineering
- Geology and mineral exploitation
- Sustainable design
- Environmental and transportation engineering
- Acoustics and vibrations
- Heat and fluid flows
- Spatio-temporal sensing and analysis
- Advanced manufacturing
- Sustainable and renewable exploitation of earth, energy and environmental resources
- Structures and construction
- Environmental governance, policy and developmental studies
- Signal processing, modelling and analysis
Together, these inspire the agenda of the E3, which are:
- Constrained resources of Earth, energy and environment
- Infrastructures for cognitive environments
- Evolutionary and adaptive systems
- Engineering design inspired by and for nature
- Bioengineering devices and techniques
- Quantitative methods, big data and the digital ecosystem
For summaries of these themes, please link to the pages above. For more detailed information on the themes of the E3, and the implied agendas of work, please download the E3 Strategy document via the link at the top of this page.