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| Electrical/Electronic Engineering |
| Universities Involved | University
of Limerick Queen's University Belfast University of Ulster, Jordanstown |
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| Department(s) | Manufacturing and Operations Engineering | ||
| Project Title / Description |
The Irish manufacturing Committee The Irish manufacturing Committee was founded in the early eighties by the coming together of a number of academic staff who had an interest in the topic of Manufacturing Engineering from universities and Institutes of Technology North and South. The conference attracts up to 120 papers per year which are bound into a 1000 page volume. A feature of the Committee is that the Chairman must come from the North if the secretary is from the South and viceversa. The committee meets approx. three times per year to plan the next conference, to review papers and to discuss general business. Finances for the IMC generally come from departmental budgets of the members. |
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| Contacts | Prof.
A Storrar, QUB Tel 04890 274121/661729 |
Prof.
C Hepburn, UUJ Tel 04890 365131/366855 |
Dr
M Harris, UUJ Tel 04890 365131/366855 |
| Business Involvement | As part of the conference there is always a considerable input from industry and the state agencies. | ||
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Development Potential |
Probably, by encouraging research students to spend time in colleges from either side of the border by way of scholarships. | ||
| Universities Involved | Dublin
City University Queen's University Belfast |
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| Project Title / Description |
Joint management of Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society (IPRCS). Chief objective of the IPRCS is the advancement of research and study of pattern recognition, classification and kindred disciplines such as clustering, neural networks, multivariate data analysis, image processing and their applications across all fields. IPRCS is affiliated to International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Contact was made through the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP). The 1999 IMVIP conference took place in DCU. The 2000 IMVIP conference will take place in Belfast. IPRCS funded via subscriptions. Membership is open to anyone in Ireland who identifies with the aims and objectives of the IPCRS. |
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| Contacts | Paul
Whelan whelanp@eeng.dcu.ie |
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Development Potential |
Possible collaborations can grow from personal contacts made at IPRCS and/or IMVIP meetings. | ||
| Universities Involved | University
of Ulster National University of Ireland, Galway Athlone Institute of Technology |
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| Department(s) | Faculty of Engineering | ||
| Project Title / Description |
PgDip/Msc Electronics and Software Systems These innovative parttime/fulltime
courses are a collaborative venture between the University of
Ulster's Magee College campus; the National University of Ireland,
Galway and the Athlone Institute of Technology. There is a strong
emphasis of distance learning with formal lectures and tutorials
availing of videoconferencing and lecture notes and studentcentered
learning packages made available over the WWW. The courses are
The course commenced in February 1999, following approval by the Universities in 1998. The collaboration began following discussions between staff of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ulster and Athlone Institution of Technology. The course has since run for three semesters with lectures delivered from all three sites. The project has been funded from within each Institution's resources but there is clearly a need for external funding to maintain this unique collaboration and to develop it further. |
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| Contacts | Dr
Andrew Shearer Tel +353 91 524411 ext 3114 andy.shearer@nuigalway.ie |
Dr
Pat Mulhern Tel +353 902 244555 pmulhern@ait.ie |
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| Business Involvement | None directly involved but local industry are aware and supportive of the project as it meets the needs of training and retraining and retaining highly skilled staff in the electronics and computing industries. | ||
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Development Potential |
The provision of such an innovative collaborative distancelearning course is expensive to maintain due to the associated costs of developing the educational material to presented by the internet. There is clearly a need to secure funding to further develop the course and to make it available to a wider audience throughout the island of Ireland. There is ongoing discussions between the three participating institutions in an attempt to expand the consortium to include other higher level institutions within Ireland and Europe. |
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