DCU Computing Student wins place at Notre Dame

Robert Lis, a fourth year BSc Computer Applications (CASE4) student at DCU has been awarded a Naughton Fellowship to participate in the ESTEEM (Engineering, Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Excellence Matters) Masters Programme at Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. 

The Naughton Fellowship Program in Science & Engineering enables students to experience international education at the University of Notre Dame, a leading US universities. The programme facilitates cross-cultural experience for exceptional students with leadership potential in select fields, stimulates collaborative research among the engineers and scientists who train these students, and forges deeper and stronger ties between the host institutions and countries.

Every year the Naughton Foundation makes 4 or 5 awards to outstanding candidates from four eligible universities in Ireland (TCD, UCD, DCU and UCC) to enable them to further their study on the ESTEEM Masters Program at Notre Dame. ESTEEM: Science and Engineering Meet Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation is an innovative 11-month professional Master’s programme designed to surround individuals with STEM background in an entrepreneurial ecosystem, allowing them to take university technologies from concept to market. Student are first immersed into business-related courses taught through an entrepreneurial lens followed by a very unique capstone thesis project where students develop a commercialisation plan, taking real university research to market.