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October 2010: On October 20th 2010, the CDVP/CLARITY
INSPECT project was awarded Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Award for ICT for
2010, at EI's annual showcase event in Croke Park. The award was presented by
Minister Conor Lenihan and collected by David Sadlier and Noel O Connor on
behalf of the team. The team consists of Noel O Connor, David Sadleir, Paul
Ferguson, Dian Zhang, Ciaran O Conaire, Hyowon Lee and Cathal Gurrin. The
project, an Innovation Partnership funded by EI, is a collaboration with local
Irish company Fairview Analytics
(http://www.fairview-analytics.com/). Over
the last year, on foot of the project's success, DCU technology has been
licensed to Fairview, they have moved into INVENT, been awarded HPSU (High
Potential Start Up) status by EI and are about to close a round of significant
private investment.
The project developed the InSPeCT (Integrated Surveillance for Port Container
Traffic) system that has been deployed in Rosslare port where it is in 24/7
operation since April. It analyses video from CCTV and Vehicle Monitoring
cameras and provides analysis of vehicle traffic that passes through border
crossings and seaports. InSPeCT automatically reads and records the container
number and vehicle number plate and has integrated video playback. InSPeCT
utilizes advanced query and search techniques for the efficient retrieval of
information. see:
http://www.fairview-analytics.com/solutions.html
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October 2010: Accenture GRADchances event. Accenture are
offering final year students and graduates the chance to meet with them, take
part in skills workshops and find out exactly what they're looking for when
hiring grads. The events take place through October and November - visit
www.accenture.com/gradchances
for further information.
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Student Engineering Society: If you are interested in
helping establish the new Student Engineering Society in DCU, the first
discussion meeting is taking place Thursday 7th October.
Please contact David at
engcomputing@dcusu.ie for further
information and to indicate your interest.
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April 2010 - Pre-cancer stage is a focus of early detection
initiative New approaches are being developed that could eventually
help doctors to pick out and treat unusual growths on the bowel wall. View the
full article on the
Irish
Times website
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April 2010 - Economy and Shortages Affect the European Job Outlook -
The bigger high-tech companies in Europe are recruiting Electronic
Engineers. Talent is in short supply, especially for smaller firms looking for
very specific skills. For more information, please see the IEEE Spectrum article
here.
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March 2010 - Dublin City University (DCU) has agreed to
license its breakthrough Computer Aided Detection (CAD) technology to
Biotronics3D a London-based company, active in the research,
development and marketing of advanced, image-based medical diagnostic devices.
The solution, developed at DCU’s Centre for
Image Processing and Analysis (CIPA), is designed to assist in the early
detection and treatment of colon cancer. Computed Tomography Colongraphy (CTC)
also known as Virtual Colonoscopy (VC) is an alternative to traditional
endoscopic optical colonoscopy procedures. Using the VC approach, the patient
undergoes a non-invasive CT scan of the colon from which a computer generated 3D
image of the organ is displayed on a workstation. The CAD tool automatically
identifies abnormalities on the colon surface and identifies these on the
computer display to assist the clinician in diagnosis. The CAD technology is the
result of an extensive multi-year research programme led by
Professor Paul Whelan. The project
involved a broad multidisciplinary research team at CIPA in DCU, and was
supported by leading consultant clinicians in Ireland, Dr. Helen Fenlon and Dr.
Padraic Mac Mathuna. Of the license agreement Professor Whelan stated, “We look
forward to engaging with the Biotronics3D team to bring this DCU research to
market.”
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October 2009 - Kingspan looking for 2 graduate engineers -
Kingspan have been in touch with the EE school regarding two vancancies
they are looking to fill. One position is for a Divisional Projects Engineer,
which will deal with project management of equipment installment and upgrades.
The second position is for a Divisional Controls Engineer, who will deal with
control system design. Both roles require travel flexibility (national and
international). For the full job spec and application details, please email
ruth.blayney@dcu.ie
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September 2009 - Welcome back - The School of Electronic
Engineering would like to welcome all new students, and all returning students
to DCU this year. We hope you enjoyed your summer, and have a great semester!
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9th June 2009 - Postgraduate Accommodation
Scholarships - The Graduate Research Office would like to announce the
2009/10 postgraduate
accommodation scholarship scheme. This scheme is open to all incoming first year
full-time postgraduate research students. Students who register from 1st April
09 onwards are eligible to apply. Students must be nominated by their
supervisors and all details can be found at the link below:
http://www.dcu.ie/graduate_research/scholarships.shtml
Please note the closing date for applications is Wednesday 1st July.
Any queries on the scheme can be directed to
graduate.research@dcu.ie
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June 2009 - Don't forget to transfer your Engineers Ireland
membership - All students graduating this year from DCU Engineering
Degrees, who currently have an Engineers Ireland student membership account,
should contact the Third Level Liaison Officer at EI in order to get the
membership transferred to full membership (this is free in the first year of
graduation). You can read up on this
here
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May 2009 - DME student wins 'Bright Ideas Competition' -
The DCU Entrepreneurial & Social Society 'Bright Ideas Competition' was
comprised of four DCU students presenting their ideas to a panel in a Dragons
Den setting. The judging panel consisted of Richard Stokes (CEO Invent), Donal
O'Shea (CEO Slidepath) and Bernard Hensey (CEO Phive Plasma Technologies). The
concept behind each project was explained and demonstrated in front of the
judging panel. The overall winner Allan Dixon (Digital Media Engineering 4th
Year) received a cheque for €500 from the Dublin
City Enterprise Board for his project utilising Google Map technology for an
events portal.
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April 2009 - ESB to recruit 250 engineers - ESB have
announced that they will be recruiting up to 250 engineers over the next 5
years. The electricity company is focusing on the development of new energy
technologies, and this is where the majority of the new positions will stem
from. The company stated in their media briefing (16th April) that it was
developing new infrastructures including smart metering, biomass, telecoms and
also a recharge system for the growing number of electric cars. Source -
ESB
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April 2009 - DME student has commercial success with IPHONE and IPOD
applications - Steven Troughton-Smith, a first-year student of Digital
Media Engineering, has been declared Ireland’s most successful software
developer for Apple’s iPhone. Steven has created numerous software games and
programmes for Apple’s App Store, an area where iTunes offers free and paid-for
downloadable applications for iPhones and iPod Touch multimedia players.
Stephen's first major success came with Speed, an application which uses the GPS
technology in an iPhone to tell you what speed you are traveling at. It was
downloaded 36,000 times in the first six days it was available. While Speed
"took an hour to figure out", Stephen’s next project ‘Lights Off’ took 175 days
to work out. Just five days after its launch on the Apps Store last month, he
sold almost 700 copies in a single day. It generated profits of $2,200 in the
first five days of its release.
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April 2008 - Remote Control Car Fabrication - First year
engineering 'Remote Control Car Fabrication' module came to a close in ‘The
Venue’ where 23 teams competed against each other for the coveted first place
position. The event highlighted the unique designs and teamwork involved by all
students over the past year, an entertaining afternoon for all who attended as
the cars battled it out on the pitch. Many congratulations to all students
involved and also to the winning team with their successful design 'HEX:HK', no
doubt a career in Formula 1 racing looks very likely. Pictured, Dr Noel Murphy
presenting first prize to winning team members, Kevin Martin, Hozaifa El Sayed,
and Xiao Liu. Also First year Engineering students 2008, and their various
designs.
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March 2008 - Mobile Robotics - Congratulations to the
winning team in the School of Electronic Engineering 3rd year 'Mobile Robotics
Competition'. This 3rd year Mobile Robotics module involved students working in
teams to design and constructed a microprocessor based mobile robot. Shown are
the winning team members, Dian Zhang, Xiang Ye, and Keyang Dai receiving their
prize from sponsor Mr. Pat Devlin, of Farnell Ireland.
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Feb 2008: The School of Electronic Engineering and the
School of Mechanical Engineering jointly hosted the DCU element of the Steps
"Engineered - A Week of Wonder". The event took place on February 14th and 15th
and was attended by over two hundred 8 - 14 year olds (and many parents). For
further details on the DCU element please visit
http://www.dcu.ie/electronics/wow.
For further details on the Steps Week of Wonder Programme please visit
www.weekofwonder.ie . Pictured are
Edward Nash and John Smith participating in 'Make Your Own Car' activity.
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Feb 2008: Eoin Kennedy, a PhD Graduate of the School of
Electronic Engineering, was yesterday named the Vodafone GAA All Star Handball
award winner for 2007. His domination of Handball’s major prizes at home and
abroad is further illustrated by the fact that this is the fourth time in seven
years that Kennedy has been selected for the Vodafone award. For
further
information.
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Dec 2007: Congratulations to Nicolas Sezille, Dr. Kevin
Robinson and Prof. Paul Whelan (VSG, CIPA) who won the
DCU INVENT
(ICT/Engineering Section) Invention Disclosure Award for 2007 for their CAD-CTC
patent. http://www.cipa.dcu.ie/
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Dec 2007: Congratulations to Dr. John Mallon and Prof. Paul
Whelan (VSG, CIPA) on their Enterprise Ireland (Industrial Research and
Commercialisation Committee (IRCC)) Technology Development grant.
http://www.cipa.dcu.ie/
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National Biophotonics & Imaging Platform - The
Centre for Image Processing & Analysis (CIPA -
http://www.cipa.dcu.ie/), in conjunction
with the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute at Dublin City University has been
award funding under the HEA’s Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions
(PRTLI IV) scheme as part of the National Biophotonics & Imaging
Platform (NBIP).The mission of the NBIP is to provide an integrated
national access and training infrastructure in research, education, technology
development and industry collaboration for the State’s investment in
Biophotonics and Imaging. The total value of the funding awarded to this
platform (consisting of researchers from RCSI, DCU, NUIM, NUIG, UCC, UL, DIT and
CNRS (France)) in 2007 was € 30 million (€7 Million to DCU). CIPA will be the
Image Processing and Analysis Facility within the Imaging Technology core of the
NBIP. See http://www.nbip.dcu.ie/ for
additional details.
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November 2007 - DCU Open Day - The School of Electronic
Engineering recently had very successful open days, when many visitors were
attracted to the amazing demonstrations and also to the joint engineering talks
on . The demonstrations covered optical communications, robotics, plasma
generation, optical illusions, plus many more areas. As always the 'Van de
Graaff' generator proved a major attraction with no shortage of volunteers
wanting to make their hair stand on end. Picture shows an open day visitor
grappling with the 'Virtual Pig' optical illusion
toy.
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Nanomaterials Processing Laboratory News 2007
NPL Researchers successful in HEA PRTLI bid. Collaborative effort entitled
NANOTEIRE. For more details please see
http://www.dcu.ie/news/2007/aug/s0807e.shtml
. NPL Project entitled “300 mm wafer analytical capabilities for non invasive
evaluation of thermo-mechanical properties in Low Power Strained Si CMOS
Integrated Circuits”, was granted 2 years' funding under the Science Foundation
Ireland Industry Research Partnership Supplement Scheme. Prof. Patrick McNally
elected by all users of the ANKA Synchrotron (Germany) to the ANKA International
Users Committee (AIUC). Chairing AIUC 2007-8. Fpr more information please see
http://ankaweb.fzk.de/aiuc/aiuc_members.php
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November 2007 - Graduation - The 2006/2007 Ericsson medal
and prize (E1,000) in telecommunications engineering was won by Victoria Robyn
Hatt, for her final-year project in the DCU Mechatronics Engineering degree.
Navigating through a University career is the theme of a prize-winning web game
written by Victoria, she feels that a game is a more effective way of learning
the third-level ropes than traditional talks and handbooks. The player is taken
from initial registration through library familiarization to submitting
assignments, getting to lectures and labs, all the way to sitting final exams!
Her project was short-listed because, being a Java-based game, it is well-suited
to implementation on a mobile phone. Pictured at the prize ceremony are Victoria
Robyn Hatt, Dr Gabriel-Miro Muntean (project supervisor), Anthony Briody and
Paddy O'Leary both from LM Ericsson International, based in Dun
Laoghaire.
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August 2007 - CIICT 2007 - The recently successful CIICT
2007 conference was officially opened by Prof. Ferdinand von Prondzynski
President of DCU, and Mr. Zhang Xinsen Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of
Ireland. CIICT2007 produced proceedings in excess of one hundred papers
contributed by researchers from China, Ireland, and other parts of the world.
Topics ranged across the spectrum of Information and Communications theory and
technologies from Circuits and Systems, Signal Processing to Artificial
Intelligence and Information Systems. All involved were very positive with the
outcome of the conference, and the aims to strengthen science and technology
research collaboration between China and Ireland were further enhanced. More
information, www.ciict.org . Group photo of
delegates are pictured outside the Engineering Building following the opening
ceremony.
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June 2007 - St. Patrick’s National School Drumcondra visit
- The School of Electronic Engineering recently hosted over 200 pupils from the
local St. Patrick’s National School, Drumcondra. This visit event organised by
Dr Stephen Daniels saw the 6 -7 year old pupils enjoy themselves immensely, by
having an interactive part with many activities, such as mobile robotics, paper
airplane launching and sending secret messages using light. All pupils received
a goodie bag and DCU 'Engineer Your Career' baseball cap. Feedback from the
teachers indicated it was a very special occasion for the pupils and the School
of Electronic Engineering will look forward to the future when this loyal army
of 6 year come to study engineering at DCU. Pictured are some of the pupils
having fun launching paper airplanes at over 50km/h speeds.
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May 2007 - 1986 & 1987 Friends-Electronic Engineering Reunion
- This evening turned out to be an opportunity for friends from the
Electronic Engineering Class of 1987 and 1986 to reunite 20/21 years after
graduation. Many of those who attended travelled from various parts of the world
and for some it was the first time to meet in many years. All enjoyed a wine
reception in the Engineering building and tour of its facilities, before dining
the night away in the 1838 club and reminiscing about their college days in
NIHE.
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May 2007 - Remote Control Car Fabrication - First year
engineering students recently displayed the fruits of the work ! This 'Remote
Control Car Fabrication' module spanned both Semester 1 and Semester 2, where
the students involved worked in teams to design and build using both electronic
and mechanical concepts. Their efforts reached the ultimate climax of
competition in 'The Venue' where each team received the opportunity display
their cars ability and compete against each other on the pitch. An enjoyable
event for the large audience who attended, and congratulations to the winning
team for their successful design
'Ciarzy Wiarzy'. Dr Noel Murphy presents the winning team with first prize,
members are Issraa Alhiti, Adam O Toole, Una Hally, and Ciaran O
Neill.
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March 2007 - Mobile Robotics - This annual event recently
took place, where the 3rd mobile robotic designs competed and the efforts of
all teams involved showed a very high standard. Congratulations to the winning
team, and many tanks to our sponsor Farnell Ireland for their continuing
support. Winning team members Peter Omorogbe Osahon, Tony Marrero Barroso and
Xin Wang, are pictured receiving their prize from sponsor Mr Stephen Mortimer (
Farnell, Ireland ).
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February 2007 - Engineered - A Week of Wonder - The School
of Electronic Engineering recently participated in the "Engineered - A Week of
Wonder" event.
Country wide this event was organised by the Institution of Engineers of
Ireland's for the first time, and it attracted about 500 children (8 to 14
years) on both days to DCU, with the aims of educating and interesting children
in the fields of engineering and technology. Be an Engineer for the day was the
theme and the children participated in activities like, send a secret message
using light, build a MindStorms robot, make a paper airplane and launch it at 50
kilometres per hour, who wants to be and engineer quiz, engineering magic show,
along with many interesting demonstrations. More information on this event at,
www.weekofwonder.ie
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