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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