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The Irish Academy of Engineering Executive met on 5th December 2024 to review progress during a very busy year.

The autumn meeting of the IAE Western region was held on 11th December in the offices of Boston Scientific in the Galway. Photo L-R: James Lyons, VP Operations BS Galway, Darragh Colgan, Tim Corcoran, Padraic O’Donoghue, Mark Gantly, Conor McCarthy, Tom Leahy, Maurice Buckley (Ger Hurley departed before photo taken) We greatly appreciated the site […]

The Chemical and Process Division of Engineers Ireland selected Mr. Joe Harford to be awarded the “Icon of Process Engineering “ Award. This Award was made by the President of Engineers Ireland Ms Laura Burke at the Divisions Annual Forum and Social Evening at the Maritime Museum, Dun Laoghaire on Thursday 21st of November 2024. This […]

Mr. Tom Leahy, Immediate Past President and member of the CAETS Communications committee draws to your attention the opportunity presented by the 2025 CAETS communication prize. CAETS is the international association of 33 Academies of Engineering and technology (www.newcaets.org ). The purpose of the Communications Prizes is two-fold: Inspiring students to follow careers in engineering […]

The autumn meeting of the IAE Southern region was held on 26th November 2024 in a Board room of ARUP in Cork. The meeting was chaired by Brendan Murphy and the agenda included: Welcome by the Chair of Southern Region Update on work of IAE Report by Chair/Tom Leahy (based on Council meeting of 24 […]

The Royal Academy of Engineering(RAE)  held its Strategy 2025-30 consultation on 15th  October 2024 in the The Event Space, Ormeau Baths in Belfast. The discussion was hosted by Academy President, Dr John Lazar CBE FREng and RAE CEO, Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE. The Irish Academy of Engineering, who signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in […]

The autumn meeting of the IAE Northern region was held on 3rd October 2024 in the Board room of Catalyst Inc. in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. The meeting was chaired by Jonathan Hegan and the agenda included: Welcome – Jonathan welcomed the attendees and in particular welcomed Academy President Seamus McKeague and Executive members […]

The University of Galway hosted the first meeting of the IAE west region on the 27th September 2024 in the Anderson Boardroom in the main quadrangle building of the University. The meeting was facilitated through the University President’s office, Professor Peter McHugh, who attended the  meeting. Professor Padraic O’Donoghue FIAE, who is the new Chair […]

The 2024 Euro-CASE conference had as its theme – European Engineering for sustainability – New Solutions for Environmental, Urban and Health Systems and was held in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Thankfully the conference was not impacted by the major regional flooding and was held in a balmy 23 degrees. The river Danube […]