Faculty of Engineering and Computing - Research
Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Research News
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15 April 2008 DCU and UCD combine to seek commercial research advances in new technologies
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31 March 2008 Research Student Graduation
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20 February 2008 DCU Graduate named Handballer of the Year
This marks yet another year of success for the St. Brigid's Clubman, who collected a Grand Slam of titles, taking the All-Ireland 60x30 Singles and Doubles crowns, in addition to Hardball Singles and Doubles honours. Eoin is only the third player ever to manage this feat. |
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19 February 2008 Funding Success for Nanomaterials Processing Laboratory
The NPL, which draws researchers from the Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE) and the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (NCPST), is led by Prof. Patrick McNally. |
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28 January 2008 SFI Funding Success for DCU
As part of this, DCU researchers received more than €3,000,000 for vital research equipment. This is far in excess of the funding received by other, similar sized, Universities. |
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21 January 2008 Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarships awarded to DCU students
For the academic year 2007-08, the Research Committee of the School of Computing at DCU, together with input from Microsoft Ireland, has awarded four students with a Microsoft Postgraduate Scholarship for 2007/08. |
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15 January 2008 Congratulations to Ronan Barrett
The title of Ronan's thesis is "Investigations into the Model Driven Design of Distribution Patterns for Web Service Compositions".
He completed his PhD in the Software and Systems Engineering group, School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Dr. Claus Pahl. |
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22 December 2007 RINCE appoints two research officers to support its research
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14 December 2007 Invention Disclosure Awards 2007
Particularly interesting to this faculty is that Dr. Kevin Robinson, Prof Paul Whelan & Dr. Nicholas Sezille from the Centre for Image Processing and Analysis (CIPA - RINCE) and the School of Electronic Engineering won the best overall invention disclosure in the category of ICT/Engineering. |
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A
unique €16.4m technology partnership between UCD and DCU, supported by
Cork’s Tyndall Institute, and funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI),
aims to tame twenty-first century media information overload, facilitate
improved health, and ensure that our environment is meeting tough standards
being set to deliver a better quality of life. 
Congratulations
to all of the DCU students who graduated on Saturday. There
are 8 students graduating from the
DCU
graduate Dr. Eoin Kennedy has been named as Vodafone GAA Handballer of
the year for 2007. This is Eoin's fourth All Star award, having
previously been awarded the honour in 2002, 2004 and 2005. The award was
presented by the President of the Irish Handball Council Tom Walsh at a
reception in Dublin's Westbury Hotel. 
Details
of a new €31.2 million investment in an SFI Equipment Call were
announced today by Micheál Martin, TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade
and Employment. The goal of this 2007 Equipment Call is to accelerate
and enhance research output and quality from both SFI and non-SFI-funded
researchers through a significant investment in additional resources and
infrastructure in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
In
1995, Microsoft Corporation together with a US-based philanthropic trust
established an endowment fund to support postgraduate research scholarships
within the School of
Congratulations
to Ronan Barrett who successfully
defended his thesis and will be awarded the degree of PhD.
RINCE
has appointed two new research officers to support its research. Dr. Prince
Anandarajah and Dr. Ormond are working closely with the High Speed Devices
and Systems Centre (HSDS) and Network Innovations Centre (NIC) respectively.
In March 2008 they will be joined by a third reseach officer who will join
the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis (CIPA) Centre within RINCE.
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23 November 2007 Congratulations to Philip Kelly
The title of Philip's thesis is "Pedestrian Detection and Tracking using Stereo Vision Techniques".
He completed his PhD in the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP), Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) and the School of Electronic Engineering, DCU under the supervision of Dr. Noel E. O’Connor. |
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13 November 2007 DCU to lead Multi-Million Euro Research in High-Tech Automatic Language Translation
This five-year research programme will transform an important sector of Ireland’s global software business – localisation - as well as a key driver of the global content distribution industry. |
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05 November 2007 Research Student Graduation
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Congratualtions
to all of the DCU students who are graduating today and tomorrow. There
are 13 students graduating from the
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25 October 2007 DCU Researchers Win Top International Paper Prize
Over the last five years Dr. Dermot Brabazon, Dr. Ahmed Issa and Prof. Saleem Hashmi of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the Materials Processing Research Centre (MPRC) have developed two laser micromachining processes which allow for the production of channels and voxels with highly repeatable micrometer level resolution. |
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DCU
laser micromachining researchers have won the top application prize for
their published paper on laser micromachining at the
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19 October 2007 Congratulations to Puspita Deo
The title of Puspita's thesis is "Heterogeneous Motorised Traffic Flow Modelling using Cellular Automata".
She completed her PhD in the Modelling & Scientific Computing Group, School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Professor Heather Ruskin.
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Congratulations
to Puspita Deo who successfully defended her thesis and will be awarded the
degree of PhD.
DCU
has been ranked as the top Irish University for Research in the recent
Sunday Times University Guide. The guide, which was published on Sunday
September 30th stated "
Congratulations
to Kealan McCusker who successfully defended his thesis and will be awarded
the degree of PhD.
