Archive for the ‘Evening Lectures’ Category

Venue: Room B190, Cork Institute of Technology (Map)
Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Time: 18:30

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On Wednesday, 2 November, The Institution of Structural Engineers (Republic of Ireland Branch) in association with the Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology will host a Graduate Evening. Recent graduates undertaking postgraduate research and graduates working across a range of engineering firms will give brief presentations sharing their experiences since graduating.

The aim of the evening is to provide an insight for students and other members of the structural engineering fraternity into what it is like for Graduate Engineers working with Consultants today and show the opportunities that are available for research. It is intended that the evening will be relatively informal and there will be ample time for questions and discussion. The speakers will be:

• Daniel Goulding – Daniel is currently working with Bord Gáis Éireann on the 2010-2012 Graduate Programme. On graduating with a BEng. in Structural Engineering from Cork Institute of Technology in 2008, he began a Research Masters in Environmental Engineering primarily focussing on biogas utilisation in Ireland. Last year, Daniel upgraded his Masters research to a PhD and is conducting this research on a part-time basis in conjunction with Cork Institute of Technology.
• Alan Leen – Alan studied Civil & Environmental Engineering at University College Cork and graduated in 2008. He joined Arup in 2008 and is currently working as a Project Engineer their Cork Office. Alan has experience working on projects such as Mallow Flood Relief Scheme, quay wall remedial works, and a number of flood risk assessments and flood studies.
• David Hodge – David studied civil, structural and environmental engineering at Cork Institute of Technology and graduated in 2009. He is currently a PhD student in CIT studying the response of hollow core floors to applied actions. David won first prize for his paper at last year’s BCRI conference held in Cork.
• James Browne – James studied Civil & Environmental Engineering at University College Cork and graduated in 2009. He worked as a graduating engineer with J Murphy & Sons Tunnelling Division in London before starting a PhD in renewable gas production from waste in the bioenergy and biofuels research group, Environmental Research Institute, UCC.
• Michael Minehane – Michael graduated from Cork Institute of Technology with a BEng (Hons) degree in Structural Engineering in 2010 and a MEng degree in Structural Engineering in 2011. Michael won the 2010 Irish Concrete Society Sean de Courcy Award for his final year project on reinforced concrete corbelled joints. He is a Graduate Engineer with RPS in the Cork office where he is currently working on a number of bridge projects.

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Venue: Room B190, Cork Institute of Technology (Map)
Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Time: 18:30

On Tuesday, 8 November, the Republic of Ireland Branch will host their annual Graduate Evening, in conjunction with the Irish National Group of IABSE and UCD’s Struct Soc. This event offers engineering students a chance to learn more about the various career paths available to them following graduation and will be of particular benefit to final-year students. On the evening three recent graduates will make presentations detailing their personal experiences, and will answer questions from the audience. This year the speakers will be:

• Niamh Gibbons – Niamh studied civil, structural and environmental engineering at Trinity College Dublin at both bachelors and masters level. Following graduation, she worked for Grontmij (formerly Carl Bro) in their bridge team on highways projects in Ireland and Scotland. Currently Niamh is a PhD student at University College Dublin studying the assessment of masonry arch bridges.
• David Deally – David is a Design Engineer with Arup in the Dublin office. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering in 2010. David has experience working with the Eurocode and finite element packages, in particular Sofistik, for 3D modelling and long term analysis of flat slabs.
• Julie Harkin – Julie is a graduate engineer from University College Dublin with a MSc in Durability of Structures from Queen’s University Belfast. Currently, Julie is working as a bridge engineer with Roughan & O’Donovan and has gained experience working on cable-stayed bridge analyses, strain monitoring and inspection of bridges. She also has experience in traffic and transport engineering, having undertaken work on network improvement schemes and traffic modelling.

The evening promises to be highly informative and is open to all interested members of the public.

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Venue: Room F14, Newstead Building, University College Dublin (Map)
Date: Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Time: 18:30

Date: Thursday 20 October 2011
Location: Millenium Hall, City Hall, Cork
Time: 7.00 pm (Tea/coffee available from 6.30 pm)

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On Thursday 20 October 2011, at Cork City Hall, the esteemed engineer Dr Bill Harvey will present an evening lecture entitled ‘Underneath the Arches – Choosing a life in the cold and damp‘. Dr Harvey has been a committed bridge engineer since 1954. He began properly working on bridges in 1971 when he spent some time on big steelbridges (Humber, Ouse, Dunkeld) before settling into academic life working on masonry arch bridges in 1981. Since then he has become an internationally renowned bridge engineer and has spent many happy hours in cold damp places but also in libraries and sometimes even in the sun, learning about how arches came about, how they were built, how they work and how they deteriorate. He has worked as an independent consultant and software developer since 2000.

This lecture will skim through various aspects of bridge history: using pictures and videos of bridge behaviour to explain what we think we know and the gaps that remain in our knowledge and understanding of these economically vital structures. There will also be brief excursions into aspects
of more modern structures.

This event will hosted by Engineers Ireland – Cork Region, in conjunction with the Institution of Structural Engineers, Republic of Ireland Branch, and is open to the public.

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Date: Thursday 20 October 2011
Location: Millenium Hall, City Hall, Cork
Time: 7.00 pm (Tea/coffee available from 6.30 pm)

On Tuesday, 11 October the Republic of Ireland Branch will host the annual Student Prize competition evening, in Room 259, DIT Bolton St. Starting at 18:30 the nominees will each make a 10 minute presentation on their project and then answer questions from three industry-representative judges. This years entrants, representing the seven accredited degree programmes within the Branch area, are:

• CIT: Gerard Murphy – Experimental investigation of foundation solutions for offshore wind turbines;
• DIT: Kevin Coughlan – Effectiveness of tuned liquid column dampers to supress structural vibrations;
• TCD: Andrew Lohan – An investigation into finite difference analysis as a method for solving engineering problems;
• UCC: Michael O’Byrne – Image processing based detection and clustering of surface features;
• UCD CivEng: Karen Concannon & Jennifer Keenahan – Thermal performance of precast insulated concrete sandwich panels;
• UCD SEA: Michael Dowd – Remote tuned mass dampers for the suppression of cable-stayed bridge dynamics.

The evening promises to be highly informative for both industry practitioners and students (especially final-year students).

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Location: Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton St. (Room 259)
Date: 11 October 2010
Time: Tea and coffee reception at 18:00. Presentations start at 18:30.

Date: Monday 3 October 2011
Location: Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road
Time: 7.30 pm

This lecture will also be webcast live here (Password: MasonryWalls201)

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The Heritage Society of Engineers Ireland (in conjunction with the Structures and Construction Division) will host an evening lecture on Monday 3rd October 2011. This lecture will focus on the stabilisation of historic masonry and will be presented be a joint presentation by:

• Kevin Clancy, Chartered Engineer, Punch Conservation
• David Kelly, Chartered Engineer, David Kelly Partnership
• Lisa Edden, Consulting Structural Engineer

In their presentation the speakers will discuss three case studies from around Ireland: Fermoy Flood Relief (Saving the leaning wall); Boyle Abbey, Co Roscommon (the dismantling, reconstruction and conservation of the Nave north wall) and Mucklagh Gateway, Co Offaly (the repair and stabilisation of the eye catching entrance to Charleville Estate).

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Date: Monday 3 October 2011
Location: Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road
Time: 7.30 pm

For those who cannot attend, this lecture will also be webcast live here (Password: MasonryWalls201)

Date: Tuesday 27 September 2011
Location: Davis Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin
Time: 7.00 pm

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The IABSE Irish National Group will host their annual evening lecture on Tuesday 27th September 2011, in the Davis Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin (at 7:00 pm). This lecture will focus in the experiences and lessons learned from the recent Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, and will be presented by Prof Stuart Reid (The University of Sydney, Australia).

This event is being staged in co-operation with the Engineers Ireland Structures and Construction Division and the IStructE (RoI Branch), and is a CPD approved event.

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Date: Tuesday 27 September 2011
Location: Davis Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin
Time: 7.00 pm