Colleagues and friends of Prof Emanuel Popovici, Electrical and Electronic Engineering were delighted to attend his inaugural professorial lecture at the Aula Maxima, UCC.  Professor Emanuel Popovici is the new Qualcomm Professor in Digital Electronics and Embedded Systems — a landmark appointment that strengthens the long-standing collaboration between University College Cork (UCC) and Qualcomm.

Contratulations to Kong Zhang, a fourth-year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Architecture of UCC who received the Runner-Up Award in the Best Poster Competition for PhD students at the 2026 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) UK & Ireland Chapter Conference. The conference was hosted by Prof. Gerry Lacey at Maynooth University, with the first prize awarded to Imperial College London. The IEEE RAS UK & Ireland Chapter conference was held in Ireland for the first time, and attended by IEEE RAS UK & Ireland Chapter Chair Prof. Mary He, 2 keynote speakers: Prof. Cecilia Laschi from National University of Singapore and Prof. Katja Mombaur Karlsruhe from Institute of Technology, Germany

Dr John McLaughlin, Cork Centre for Architectural Education was part of a taskforce set up by the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland (RIAI) to rewrite the RIAI Architecture Competency Framework and the RIAI Policy on Education which will both form the basis of national accreditation of architecture degrees. The aim of the taskforce was to bring the framework and policy into line with contemporary societal needs including addressing the climate crisis, as the construction sector is responsible for a large percentage of global carbon emissions and for a huge amount of material waste.