Event Type: Talk or debate

11 May 2021 18:30 to 20:03

This presentation will discuss the global roll-out of zero tailpipe emissions vehicles, battery electric vehicles & hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, and their inevitable expanding rollout & scale up in Ireland, a country with an aim to achieve >50% total emissions reductions in the next decade.

Industry: Cross-sector

Event Type: Talk or debate

06 May 2021 18:30 to 12 May 2021 20:00

Drawing on examples from his extensive career, both as a professional & academic engineer, Prof. Schmid will introduce the concept of “Systems Engineering” and its application to railways, focusing on the need to manage the complicated and complex nature of the railway. His talk will also include a brief exploration of Ireland’s railway history.

Industry: Railway

Event Type: Technical lecture

05 May 2021 12:00 to 13:00

Object Process Methodology (OPM) is a conception modelling language and methodology for capturing knowledge and designing systems, specified as ISO/PAS 19450. Based on a minimal universal ontology of stateful objects and processes that transform them, OPM can be used to formally specify the function, structure, and behaviour of artificial and natural systems in a large variety of domains.

Industry: Machine systems informatics & control

Event Type: Talk or debate

20 April 2021 18:30 to 19:30

Pumps are ubiquitous. Every sub-specialty of engineering interacts with pumps, from microscopic pumps, built by bio-medical engineers from bacteria, through to pumps that civil engineers use to pump concrete up hundreds of meters into the cores of skyscrapers. Every facet of human existence is dependent on pumps, the unsung heroes of engineering.

Industry: Fluid machinery

Event Type: Committee meeting or AGM

17 April 2021 14:00 to 15:30

GREECE GROUP ELECTION and the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) to be held on 17th April 2021

Industry: Cross-sector