Biography

Biography

Education:

1995: BE (Chemical), University College, Dublin

1996: MSc (Agr.) Food Science, University College, Dublin

2001: PhD (Process & Chemical Engineering), University College, Cork

2005: Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, University College, Cork

2006: Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, University College, Cork

2008: MA (Teaching & Learning in Higher Education), University College, Cork

Awards:

2023: Leo Jansen Prize. Best paper* at 11th Engineering Education for Sustainable Development Conference (EESD2023). Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. [*ByrneEP Positive Actions EESD2023 paper]

2017: IChemE Sustainability Teaching Award (2016) from Institution of Chemical Engineers for BE Process & Chemical Engineering programme (joint submission with Dr John Fitzpatrick)

2015:  Richard Trevithick Memorial Prize (2015) from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for best paper in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Engineering Sustainability): Educating engineers to embrace complexity and context, Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, Byrne, E.P. and Mullally, G., 2014, 167(6), 241-248.

‌2013: IChemE Frank Morton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Education or Communication (UCC news) ‌

2006: UCC President's Award for Excellence in Teaching 2006

2004: Award for research on innovative forms of teaching and learning (jointly with Dr John Fitzpatrick)

‘Visualisation in the teaching and learning of Chemical & Process Engineering'

2022: UCC Research Awards: President's Award for Research Impacting the Sustainable Development Goals 2021: 'Imagining2050' Project

2022: UCC Research Awards: Engaged Research of the Year 2021: 'Corca Dhuibhne 2030/Dingle Peninsula 2030' Project 

2022: UCC President's Award for Teaching Excellence 2020/2021: UW005 Sustainability Teaching Team

2011: IChemE Journals: Editors' Choice: (ECE paper 'Chemical engineering in an unsustainable world' selected among eight)

2012: Invited Speaker: 14th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE) Congress. Singapore, 22-24 February.

2012: IChemE Journals 2011 Best Reviewers Award

Career History:

2016-: Chair Professor of Process & Chemical Engineering, University College, Cork

2013-2016: Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Process & Chemical Engineering, University College, Cork

2001-2013: College Lecturer, Dept. of Process & Chemical Engineering, University College, Cork

1998-2001: College Lecturer (temporary full time), Dept. of Process & Chemical Engineering, University College, Cork

1997-1998: Part-time lecturer, Dept. of Chemical and Process Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology

PhD's Supervised (year graduated):

Bas, Nusin (2010), Mathematical modelling and optimisation of the formulation and manufacture of aggregate food products.

Pathare, Pankaj B. (2010) Optimisation of granola breakfast cereal manufacturing process by wet granulation and pneumatic conveying.

Riedewald, Frank (2011) Comparison of deterministic, stochastic and fuzzy logic uncertainty modelling for capacity extension projects of DI/WFI pharmaceutical plant utilities with variable/dynamic demand.

Hanley, Kevin (2011) Experimental quantification and modelling of attrition of infant formulae during pneumatic conveying.

Donnellan, Philip (2015) Development of a triple stage heat transformer for the recycling of low temperature heat energy.

Dillon, Paul (2016) Evaporation maps for ternary non-ideal liquid mixtures.

Lalor, Fergal (2020) Sustainability Analysis of Biopharmaceuticals Manufacturing.

McGookin, Connor (2022) Developing participatory methods in energy system modelling and planning

Research MEngSc’s/MSc's Supervised:

Heffernan, Sinead (2003) Effect of shear on the properties and separation characteristics of whey protein precipitates.

O’Leary, Keara A. (2010) Experimental analysis of the co-melt fluidisation granulation process.

Hughes, Aoife (2020) Plastic free UCC; Exploring societal and marketing levers

Programmes Founded:

Certificate (est. 2002) and Diploma (2004) in Process & Chemical Engineering (led 'til 2016)

PG Diploma (2009) and MEngSc (2007) in Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Engineering (led 'til 2016)

ME (2019) and BE(Hons) (2020) Process and Chemical Engineering (led from establishment 2019)

Research/Conferences:

Environmental Citizenship Research Priority Area (ECRPA) (Investigator & Co-applicant): Sustainability in Society

2017 Research Conference (Co-Chair):  Metaphors of Transformative Change Colloquium Environmental Research Institute, UCC.

2013 Research Conference (Co-Chair): Trans-disciplinary conversations on transitions to sustainability

3^rd International Symposium for Engineering Education (Chair): ISEE2010

Adult Continuing Education 'Sustainability & Modern Society' Public Seminar Series 2012 (Convenor, with G. Mullally (Sociology) & J. Fitzpatrick (Proc. & Chem. Eng.)

Member of the Scientific/Steering Committee of the Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD) Conference series at University of Cambridge (EESD'13), University of British Columbia (EESD'15), Bruges (EESD'16), Rowan University, NJ, USA (EESD'18), UCC (EESD2021), CSU, CO, USA (EESD2023).

Chair: 10th Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD2021), University College Cork, 13-16 June 2021.

Co-Investigator: 'Engaging, Envisioning, and Co-Producing Pathways for a Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Ireland' (Imagining 2050), EPA funded transdisciplinary ERI project (PI: G. Mullally) 2018-2022, worth €482,343.80.

Co-Investigator: Deep Institutional Innovation for Sustainability and Human Development (DIIS), MaREI Centre, ERI, UCC.

Co-/Principal Investigator: Corca Dhuibhne 2030, Dingle Peninsula 2030, MaREI Centre, ERI, UCC.

Co-Investigator: Bilateral Regional Accord between Ireland aNd Wales for Agricultural Valorisation and Environmental Sustainability (BRAINWAVES), ERI, (PI: Marcel Jansen), worth €1.460m, 2020-2023.

Co-Investigator: Duck-Feed, ERI (PI: Marcel Jansen), worth €930,734, 2022-2026.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Selected Publications and Presentations

For full list of publications, see IRIS site (http://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/D015/ebyrne)

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability [ISBN: 9781472462954] (Byrne, E., Mullally G., & Sage, C.) Routledge, 2017

Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives [ISBN: 9780367698553] (Hughes, I., Byrne, E., Mullally, G. and Sage, C.) Routledge, 2022