Recent Promotions in the School of Engineering & Architecture

27 Jul 2023

Congratulations to Dr Ken Bruton, Lecturer in Civil Engineering, on his recent promotion to Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering & Architecture. 

Ken is a graduate of the UCC School of Engineering with over 20 years’ experience working within the industrial sector in the area of data driven sustainability. While working directly in industry, he worked as an Energy Agreements Support Manager with SEAI, where he mentored many of the largest energy users in Ireland in the implementation of the IS393, EN16001 and ISO50001 energy management system standards.

Since returning to academia in 2011, Ken has worked closely with industrial partners to research and develop data driven solutions to assist them in reaching their carbon reduction ambitions. He also previously worked on the i2e2 Technology Centre (www.i2e2.ie) Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics tool development project, which won the UCC ICT Invention of the year in 2013 and the SEAI Energy Research Award in 2014.

Ken currently co-directs the Intelligent Efficiency Research Group (https://www.ucc.ie/en/ierg/description/) with colleague Dr Dominic O’Sullivan where they strive to unlock the potential of the twin transition of digitalisation and sustainability to decarbonise the industrial sector.