Faculty of Engineering and Computing - Welcome to the Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Faculty of Engineering & Computing
Dean of Faculty: Professor Charles McCorkell
Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning: Dr Noel Murphy
Associate Dean for Research: Prof. Heather Ruskin
Undergraduate programmes
In November 1980 we registered our first students on the Electronic Engineering and Computer Applications degrees. In the same month, four years later our first BEng and BSc students graduated. The Faculty has an exciting set of degree programmes that are central to Ireland’s national development priorities of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and our interest in Manufacturing.
Postgraduate programmes
One of the major changes that has occurred in technological education in Ireland over the past ten years or so, is the greater value that is now being placed on higher degrees. Our response to this has been to offer a range of Postgraduate programmes through different modes (part-time, full-time, distance learning, and on-line), that bring us into line with the European-wide 5 year model. Leaving research degrees aside, this is the highest level of formal education that is proposed under the Bologna declaration and the one that is preferred by the Institution of Engineers of Ireland in their response to Bologna.
Research
Research in the Faculty ranges from basic to applied, with funding from a number of sources, including Enterprise Ireland, HEA, IRCSET, Science Foundation Ireland and the EC Framework Programme. Collaborations with industrial partners, such as Samsung, Microsoft, IBM and Medtronic AVE also attract funding, demonstrating confidence in the commercialisation potential of the research projects. Inter-disciplinarity is a realised aim in much of the research undertaken and is reflected in our core strengths. The Faculty hosts and participates in a number of very successful National Centres, Large Scale Research Initiatives and University Designated Research Centres. We are strongly committed to the training of postgraduate research students and career progression for postdoctoral researchers. For the latest news, upcoming research events and opportunities for postgraduate students, senior researchers and collaboration with industry, check out our dedicated research page.
International students
We are delighted in this Faculty to host a large number of students from around the world, many from outside the EU. The internationalising of our educational activities and the accommodation of an increasingly diverse student body is right at the top of our agenda.