This Summer the Engineers Newsletter will be three years
old! The first edition in July 2013 welcomed the new Australian President of
UCD Professor Andrew Deeks and looked forward to 'the exciting times
ahead'. There were some very exciting
times in UCD and the EGA since then. At we looked ahead in 2013, Ireland's
economy was just starting to show signs of recovery. We featured topics on Energy, Water, Digital
and looked forward to an Engineers Picnic in Belfield during that Summer as
part of The Gathering.
Now we look forward to the UCD Summer Festival 2016 and
while the national recovery is definitely getting stronger, from the recent
General Election we know it ain't there for everybody yet.
We awarded the 2013 EGA Distinguished Graduates Award to
Dr Liam Connellan - a very deserving choice - and celebrated UCD Student Centre
as Ireland's 'favourite new building' in the 2013 Irish Architecture Awards.
I want to pay particular tribute to the two Editors of
the EGA Engineer's Newsletter - Drs Ciaran McNally (2003-2015) and Vincent
Hargaden (2015-2016) for the excellence of content and production. A lot of
work goes into producing a professional newsletter like this to current
standards. It was overly ambitious to expect that an entirely voluntary
organisation like EGA could produce a number of newsletters each year - the
five issues to date more than serve the requirement to keep our members
informed. A further 4 issues have
followed in October 2013, March 2014, Summer 2015 and now Summer 2016.
As we look over the past issues we see the increasing
diversity of the stories that tell the lives of staff and students on campus
and the individual events organised by the EGA in terms of Lectures, Panel
Discussions, Gold Medal Ceremonies, Mock Interviews for Final Years and Round
Table Discussions. Special thanks is due over the past 4 years to Fionnuala
McGowan and more recently Clare Ryan for organisation of these events in
addition to their administrative work for the College of Engineering and
Architecture. We also get fabulous support from Katie O'Neill Marketing Manager
College of Engineering, Aisling Harkin of UCD Career Development Centre and
Sinead Dolan of UCD Alumni Association.
Inspiring and giving unstinting support to these activities
we have been privileged to have had two excellent Deans of Engineering over
these 3-4 years - Gerry Byrne in the earlier years and now David
FitzPatrick. In terms of governance I've
been privileged to have a very proactive and focused EGA Board who meet
regularly and support the work in many and various ways. The current board
broadly represent the many professional aspects of engineering in Irelabd
across the public and private sectors.
Summer 2016 edition of Engineers's Newsletter is
published today highlighting the success of UCD having 7 of 17 female engineers
among the Intel 'Women in Engineering' Scholars. This is a new generation of
high achieving engineers taking up careers in engineering.
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| Intel 'Women in Engineering' Scholars |
They are Aoife McMenamin (Louth), Aileen McCabe (Cavan),
Fiona Maguire (Donegal), Ruth Quinn (Meath), Orlaith Hickey (Wexford), Eimear
Murphy (Kildare) and Caoimhe Rose Martin (Wicklow).
Finally the biggest transformation that the Engineers
Newletter clearly shows is that we had no Corporate Members in 2013 to support
our activities and we now have 25 of Ireland's leading companies on board soon
to become 30 when current applications are fully processed. Without our Corporate
Members we could not fund the current wide range of activities. They are listed on
the website homepage and at the back page of each of our Newsletters.
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