UCC PhD student (P/T),  Mr. Paddy McGowan (Lecturer  in Mechanical Engineering at MTU), (right in photo) joined the World’s Biggest Scientific Experiment at CERN. Paddy McGowan and his team at MTU are designing the delicate mechanical supports that will hold thousands of sensors, along with the cooling pipes and cables, all operating under extreme conditions deep underground. Paddy is supervised by Prof Guangbo Hao and Dr William Wright of the School of Engineering.  Click here for more information.   

CCAE have just launched a call for papers for a conference in CCAE next March titled Architecture in the Critical Zone. AIARG 2026 | University College Cork The term "Critical Zone" is taken from the geo-sciences and describes the biochemical, fragile layer of the earth, its surface on which life is created. By the French philosopher Bruno Latour, the term is extended to a critical, participatory relationship to our living world, whose threatened state has reached an unprecedented scale in the Earth's now man-made history. Latour has described this worldwide situation, which affects all living beings on the planet, as a "new climate regime". It is not limited to ecological crises, but touches on questions of politics and cultural history as well as ethical and epistemological changes of perspective. The call invites submissions from other disciplines to contribute to architecture's reconception of the terrestrial in this time of climate crisis and we would welcome contributions from colleagues in engineering and sustainability.    

The School will be running a seminar on the Celtic Interconnector project sponsored by the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) at 6:30pm – 8:30 pm on Thursday 4th December in Cummins G.02.