Five female students in 1st year Engineering received Quercus Entrance Scholarships on Monday 27th November:  Meadhbh Mc Carthy, Mary Ellen Kelliher, Isabel Mc Carthy, Emma Goulding and Lucy Harty. Fantastic achievement well done all! The Quercus Entrance Scholarships are awarded to First Year undergraduate students, who are admitted via CAO onto a full-time Level 8 primary degree programme offered by the university. The recipients will be selected on the basis of being among the top 15 students in their College with respect to Leaving Certificate Examination (LCE) Points achievement.

Congratulations to the Team who were awarded a Presidents Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr Guangbo Hao of Electronic and Electronic Engineering was the team lead for the award application entitled: The Fold as a Site of Endless Potential: Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries through Origami. Other team members include Dr. Briony Supple, School of Education, Mr Alex Pentek, National Sculpture Factory/UCC and Nico Lorenzutti, School of Education.

The School of Engineering in conjunction with the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science was delighted to host the November Business Briefing of CEIA (Cork’s Technology Network) in UCC on Friday 24/11/2023. The meeting, part of a regular series of business briefings organized by CEIA’s Industry Innovation Sub-Group was held in the Council Room, North Wing, UCC, and the theme of the meeting was “Artificial Intelligence (AI), Chatbots and the Future of Work.”