UCC Winter Conferrings - 8th December 2011
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UCC Winter Conferrings - 8th December 2011
08.12.2011

Winter conferring ceremonies continued today (December 8th 2011) at UCC with over 400 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Business & Law and the College of Science, Engineering & Food Science (SEFS).

The Conferring addresses were given by Professor Sebastian Green, Head, Department of Management & Marketing, UCC; Lieutenant General Patrick Nash (retd), former Operation Commander, EUFOR TCHAD/RCA and Mr John Hennessy, Chairman, Higher Education Authority. An Honorary MA was conferred on Edward Naughton, Institute of Public Administration (citation attached). The ceremonies conclude tomorrow Friday (December 9th).

Picture:  Donncha Kavanagh, UCC; Dr Michael Murphy, President, UCC; Edward Naughton, Institute of Public Administration who was conferred with an honorary MA and Professor Sebastian Green, UCC.

 


Citation for Honorary Degree of Master of Arts Edward Naughton, 12.30pm

President, Academic Colleagues, Graduates, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Mr Ed Naughton, BE, CEng., FIEI, IPMA-A, PMP,is a graduate of University College Dublin where he read for a BE (Civil). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland; a Chartered Engineer (Ireland); a Professional Engineer in Canada (Province of British Columbia); holds the highest level of certification from the International Project Management association; and was the first PMP (Project Management Professional) in Ireland from the USA-based Project Management Institute.

In 1989, Ed founded the Institute of Project Management of Ireland (IPMI) to develop and further the discipline of project management in Ireland. The IPMI is now the leading authority on the profession in Ireland, and Ed continues as its Director General.

Ed has researched, published and presented many articles and papers on the continuously evolving state of project management. He is the author of the Irish Project Management Competence, is the former editor of the quarterly international publication “Project Management Practice”, and contributes monthly to the electronic journal PMWorld Today.

During his forty year career, Ed has worked as a project manager and/or project management consultant on a large variety of high profile domestic and international assignments.

The first 10 years of his professional career were spent working on multi-million dollar projects in Canada, Iran, Nigeria and Ireland. He was the chief cost engineer on the £630m (circa €5.0b in today’s values) Aughinish Alumina Plant construction prior to moving back to Dublin to work on the conversion of Dublin city to natural gas.

The next 15 years were largely spent on the application of the project management discipline in the business arena to the downsizing and rationalization of companies such as Dublin Gas, An Post, Waterford Crystal, Wedgewood, Bus Átha Cliath, Independent Newspapers and Bus Éireann.

On the international front, Ed was responsible for initiating cooperation agreements with both the PMI (Project Management Institute) USA and the IPMA (International Project Management Association). He is Ireland’s representative on the council of delegates, a former Vice President-Marketing for the IPMA and is adviser to the current board.

The IPMA is a global federation of 53 national project management societies and a worldwide professional association with more than 150,000 certified professionals. Its outputs include a globally recognized certification program, global standards and the active promotion of the project management profession in both the business and government sectors.  The Institute has been responsible for the accreditation of almost 2,500 IPMA professionals within this certification system since first introducing it to Ireland in 2002.

Ed initiated and has maintained a long and fruitful association with the Department of Management and Marketing at UCC that stretches back over 20 years.   The ensuing collaboration has led to the design and delivery of best-in-class project management development programmes, executive education and CPD workshops offered on a national basis. In addition, IPMI has funded ongoing research initiatives between the IPMI and UCC, such as the annual national benchmarking study of project managers. The association with UCC has led to the provision of project management programmes which in bridging the boundaries between town and gown have blended the best from academe and business. Ed's huge energy and commitment to project management training and professional development has enabled the Dept of Management and Marketing to be at the forefront today of project management education in Ireland.

Ed is married to Ann who is here today and they have four children and three horses!

Praehonorabilis Pro-Vice-Cancellarie, totaque Universitas!

Praesento vobis hunc meum filium, quem scio tam moribus quam doctrina habilem et idoneum esse qui admittatur ad Gradum Magisterii in Artibus (Honoris Causa); idque tibi fide mea testor ac spondeo, totique Academiae.

ENDS

 




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