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The Centre for Transport Research, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, has released a new research paper that examines the potential impacts of fully electrifying taxi fleets in Dublin.

Drs Sarah McCormack and David Finlay have won highly competitive Proof of Concept grants and will now use the funds to take their ground-breaking research ideas towards exciting, impactful innovations.

Trinity College Dublin has announced the first five student recipients of Three Ireland Connect to STEM Scholarships for Women at an evening ceremony on Monday December 5th.

Professor Richard Reilly was recently awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland for his research contribution in biomedical engineering which has had led to clinical impact.

Biomedical Engineering PhD students win prizes at recent Biomedical Engineering conferences

Prof Aonghus McNabola, project lead of Dŵr Uisce, has been working with National Trust Cymru and researchers from Trinity and Bangor University on a pioneering heat recovery system at Penrhyn Castle. Results show it reduces energy consumption by 230 kWh per month, equivalent to £1,770 per annum in heat savings.

Professor Roger West was elected to Fellowship of the Institute of Concrete Technology at a symposium held on 7th October in the Davenport Hotel. The symposium celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Concrete Technology and was supported by the Irish Concrete Society.

After completing in the Formula Student Class 1 and the FS-A1 categories, Formula Trinity have brought home the Aston Martin x Racing Pride Diversity and Inclusion Award, the Allan Staniforth Best Newcomer Award and the Best Real World AI

Mikhail Vaganov, a current Senior Sophister Mechanical and Manufacturing student, was one of 60 students and graduates in engineering and science from ESA’s Member and Associate States to be selected to take part in the prestigious Summer School Alpach in July 2022.

A film about karst hydrology created by Prof. Laurence Gill has made it to the final of the UNESCO Earth Futures Festival. The film, funded by the SFI iCRAG research centre (https:www.icrag-centre.org/), is based on an original choral composition called (Inception Horizon) sang by the Mellow Tonics choir in the Museum Building just before lockdown started a couple of years ago. It is in the Geoscience Professional category and can be viewed at this link. https://www.earthfuturesfestival.com/the-films/finalist-films. There is a Peoples Popular Choice award which you can vote for at this link. https:// www.earthfuturesfestival.com/peoples-choice. Please support Inception Horizon.

Trinity Engineering Students win TFI Smarter Travel Student Awards.Maël Bommec, Shane Murphy, Katherine Bolger, Bill Dempsey, Colin Gaffney, Ayush Mukherjee, Emma Patterson, Alastair Philp made up a winning team with their project "ROTATE" .A second winning team of Rhys Farrington, Aeda Ismail, Zachary Barte, Stephen Lowe, Oscar Langan, Jim Hickey, Jim Meaney and Emer Muldon took home a prize for their "Bull Lock" design.

Researchers from Trinity, led by Dr Breiffni Fitzgerald, Ussher Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering, will use Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funding of around €500,000 with machine learning techniques to optimise wind farm performance.

Dr Bruce Misstear, Fellow Emeritus in Trinity’s School of Engineering, is one of the contributors to the 2022 UN World Water Development Report, which was launched yesterday at the opening ceremony of the World Water Forum in Senegal..

Researchers from the Civil, Structural and Environmental Department are leading two new projects funded by the Government of Ireland through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).

Congratulations to Masters students Emilie Raymond, Charlotte Meuly and Karl Weldon who were awarded 2021/2022 Intel Masters Bursaries for work based on their final year project research.

Profs. Paul Johnston and Laurence Gill from the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering are speaking at a COP26 event - the UNEP Peatlands Pavilion at COP26 - Wednesday November 10th. They will be talking about the role of ecohydrology in peat forming wetland systems in relation to understanding the unique biodiversity of such ecosystems as well as being able to uptake and store atmospheric carbon.

Trinity College Dublin turned the sod on a project that will create 1,600 new student places in STEM subjects in the coming years. Work will now begin on the Martin Naughton E3 Learning Foundry which will be built on the university’s existing historic campus.

The Irish Concrete Society is pleased to announce that Prof Roger West was elected Chairperson at the AGM on 9th June 2021.

The Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence was awarded in recognition of achievements in the field of thermal analysis of electronic equipment.

Professor David O Connell is leading one of four innovative multi-disciplinary research projects at Trinity College Dublin which will share a total of €2 million in funding in the inaugural Kinsella Challenge-Based E3 Multi-Disciplinary Project Awards.

A group of Irish researchers from TCD, UCC and UCD has won the prestigious Reed and Mallik Medal in the field of Urban Design and Planning in the ICE Publishing Awards 2021. Each year, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) recognise the works published in ICE Publishing journals over the previous year, which have been nominated by each editorial advisory panel or board.

Kate Doherty, a Trinity sport scholar and Irish international short-distance runner, will compete in the World Athletics Championships in Oregon next year after racing for the women’s 4×100 metre team that secured qualification. source: universitytimes.ie

Two 3rd year Mechanical Engineering project groups came first in their categories as announced at the virtual award ceremony hosted by the National Transport Authority on Thursday 29 April.

The new cohort of Fellows and Scholars were announced today, on Trinity Monday. Our very own Professor Triona Lally and Dr David Hoey were named as Fellows along with two Engineering students, Oscar Toomey and Anna Woodcock, named as Scholars. Congratulations to all.

We are happy to announce that three students from the School of Engineering have been selected to participate in the Laidlaw Programme this year. The three students are Jamie Palmer (JS Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering), Joe Linogao (JS Engineering with Management) and Rucha Benare (JS Biomedical Engineering).

The School of Engineering has secured an Athena SWAN Bronze award in the latest round of awards to recognise commitment to gender equality.

An international team of researchers, including Professor Rocco Lupoi, has solved a puzzling phenomenon whereby strangely beautiful, vortex-like structures appear between materials deposited onto engineering components used in multiple settings.

Easy Hydro, set up by current staff and former research students in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, designs and supplies an innovative renewable energy technology consisting of low-cost and durable water turbines.

PhD student Kevin Gildea and supervisor Professor Ciaran Simms have recently published findings from a national survey identifying cyclist collision characteristics, the results of which will have implications for road safety priorities for cyclists in Ireland. (source: independent.ie)

Researchers from Trinity are among a collaborative group seeking to improve our understanding of the impact of human activity on land use and how it relates to climate change as part of a new €5 million project, Terrain-AI.

Professor David Hoey, Associate Professor in biochemical engineering at Trinity, has been awarded almost half a million euro in funding as part of a €53 million SFI funding package provided in the form of 71 grants to higher education institutions across the country.

MMT are delighted to partner with PreSonus Audio Electronics in adapting to the new online format.

Prof. Rocco Lupoi has been invited to speak at the upcoming ASM Thermal Spray Society Open Mic Series. The Open Mic Series, which will be moderated by Dr. Rogerio Lima of the National Research Council of Canada, will take place on April 21st, 2021.

Congratulations to 2019-2020 ME3B8 Universal Design Innovation Students in the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering for winning this years Smarter Travel Campus Awards organized by the National Transport Authority. Cian Kellett, Eoin Burke, Damien Deasy & Adhriaj Sood won the Engineering & Innovation – Technology category with their entry Smart which is an autonomous ramp to provide wheelchair users independent access to rail transportation such as the Dart. The project was sponsored by the Department and by ARUP Engineering.

The World Alzheimer Report 2020 Design, dignity and dementia; dementia-related design and the built environment was launched on World Alzheimers Day - 21 September 2020. The report focusses on dementia and the built environment, specifically domestic spaces, care homes, day care, hospitals and public spaces.

PhD student, Brian Considine, in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering wins the International Research Conference Certificate of Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Urban Air Quality Management, Environment and Technology (ICUAQMET) 2020.

Prof Bruce Misstear is the 2020 recipient of the Presidents’ Award of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH).

Two young brothers are helping in the battle to produce more Covid-19 protective equipment by helping their father print 3D face shields. (source: thejournal.ie)

Alix Whelan, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of Professor Caitríona Lally in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, is the 2020 winner of the Engineers Ireland Biomedical Research Medal.

Professor Laurence Gill is organising an event entitled Inception Horizon - a celebration of subterranean karst cave systems on Saturday March 7th at 7pm in the Museum Building, TCD. The event aims to reveal and celebrate the natural beauty and importance of karst limestone. It will feature an original commissioned choral work by Norah Walsh (performed by the Mellow Tonics choir which Prof. Gill sings in) that aims to capture the essence of how such intricate subterranean labyrinths are created and shaped by moving water.

Sigmedia, Kinesense Ltd and Overcast HQ Ltd have been awarded €1.5m from the Disruptive Technology Innovation fund to provide a video intelligent search platform to enable exploitation of video for the criminal justice/security and media and entertainment market.

Professor Conor Buckley, Director of Biomedical Engineering and a Principal Investigator in the Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research (AMBER) Centre, is one of three researchers from Trinity College Dublin to have won prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant awards valued at €2 million each.

The School of Engineering hosted a prize winners evening on the 5th October

A year- long project, ECO-HDV, funded by EPA-Ireland and co funded by DTTAS to identify strategies to reduce emissions from Irish heavy - duty vehicles fleet