Process and Chemical Engineering

Biography

Education:

Certificate in Applied Biology, Waterford IT

Diploma in Biotechnology, Waterford IT

Certificate in Applied Multimedia, University College Cork.

MSc Multimedia Technology, University College Cork. .

Career History:

I have worked in the Department Process & Chemical Eng. Dept. since 1980 as a Technician and in IT support.

Responsibilities:

My main responsibilities concern the maintenance of all the computer and IT facilities within the department. This includes computer hardware and software selection and purchase, network and student computer account management as well as provision of support and maintenance in administrative and research applications especially in data acquisition and data analysis.

I have also been responsible for the production of various Multimedia devices for use in publicity and teaching both within the Department and in collaboration with other departments within UCC; These include this and other Websites associated with this Department, posters, promotional leaflets and short video presentations.

• Member of Departmental Publicity committee.
• Departmental representative on Engineering Faculty computer committee.

My MSc project involved the development of an online Heat Exchanger Experiment for use in teaching. This project was sponsored by ComLab2 (An EU funded programme to develop IT tools for teaching) and the resulting application can be accessed using either of the links given below.

http://e-prolab.com/en/food_sci_tech/heat_exchange/jbarrett_link.html

or also at

http://cosmos.ucc.ie/~jb7/ISE/

Lecturers, teachers and students  of heat transfer are free to use this application in and your comments / suggestions would be most welcome.

Over my years in the department I have also developed many applications for use both in teaching and research and during this time I have developed an extensive knowledge of many application and programming tools and have wide experience in programming in Java, C, Fortran, JavaScript, Actionscript and Visual Basic.

I teach basic computer skills to our first year students and I also give tutorials in PE2004 (Technical Communication Skills). I am also involved in the running of laboratory practicals including the production of manuals.

I have extensive experience in the use of instrumentation including calibration and computer interfacing for data acquisition. I have research experience in the areas of powder flow properties, thermal conductivity measurement and refrigeration monitoring.