Last week we had our Annual General Meeting on
November 18th last which was our last meeting of 2013. It was a very
business like meeting reviewing the events and achievements over the past year.
Our membership has grown and our new membership fee structure will increase our
revenue.
This years 'events' were all very news worthy
and helped raise the EGA profile as we hosted An Taoiseach, leading engineering
manufacturing entrepreneurs, the CEO of Water Regulation Authority for England
and Wales, the German Ambassador and Pat Kenny.
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PJ Rudden EGA President, Professor Gerry Byrne Dean of
Engineering,
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Dr. Hugh Brady UCD President
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We discussed and adopted the new UCD EGA
Strategy 2013 - 2016 and a new EGA Constitution. There was an animated
discussion on how 'fit for modern purpose' our current Engineering Building was. The final text is more realistic than some of the earlier
drafts but all agree that UCD Engineering facilities and equipment needs a
transformation to meet the current record intake numbers in 2012 and 2013. We
need an ambitious plan to meet this growing demand together with a vision of
how UCD can take its place among the world class engineering colleges in the
world.
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| UCD EGA Strategy |
The EGA Board was refreshed at the meeting
arising from the resignations of Peter Brabazon and Angela Treanor. Peter gave
a number of year’s good service coming from his educational training
background. Angela was only one year on the Board but turned out to be a human
dynamo on the early preparations for the Engineers Picnic and both Peter and
Angela served on the Board Subcommittees which led to the new Strategy.
We filled one of the vacancies by electing
Louise McGuinness a 2013 civil graduate working for Roughan and O'Donovan
Consulting Engineers.
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| Louise McGuinness |
All in all it was a satisfactory ending to a very
busy year. Thanks again to the Board and Membership for all their support throughout
the year.
