What Went Wrong?
07.03.2011
Over the last 100 years, there have been a number of major industrial disasters that have brought Engineering, in terms of the safe operation of large industrial plants, into the public domain. Some of the best-known of these incidents include Seveso, Chernobyl, Bhopal, Three Mile Island and Flixborough. In Ireland, the Bantry Bay oil tanker explosion in 1979 ranks as an important incident.

In the next lecture of the Annual College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) Public Lecture Series at UCC on March 9th 2011, Dr Kevin Cronin will explore what these events reveal about how engineers design and operate safety-critical equipment and the public perception and reaction to such major accidents.

Kevin Cronin is a lecturer in the Department of Process & Chemical Engineering at UCC. He is a mechanical engineer and teaches in the area of design of process equipment and process safety. His research field is the probabilistic modeling of manufacturing operations.

The lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 8pm in Boole II Lecture Theatre. The lecture series is organised by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science Officer, SEFS.

Full details of the lectures can be consulted by visiting website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie/Lecture2011.pdf

Admission is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.

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