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School of Engineering Student Emergent Ventures award winner
Third year Electrical and Electronic Engineering student, Fearghal Desmond, has been listed as one of the Emergent Ventures winners. Launched in 2018, Emergent Ventures is a fellowship and grant program that supports entrepreneurs and brilliant minds with highly scalable, "zero to one" ideas for meaningfully improving society. Grants are awarded to thinkers and doers around the world. Mercatus Center faculty director Tyler Cowen administers the program.
Fearghal is currently on an exhange programme to UC San Diego as part of the ECACP programme. He told us recently,
'I was delighted to receive the grant. We were able to use it to fund working on the company full time during the Summer.
Our company is called Induct. There are four of us working on it. We found it that the access control industry is highly uncompetitive, outdated and expensive. We're working on building a lower cost, mobile first access control system with a significantly better user experience. We've ordered the second version of our hardware. The first is installed in one of the teams' rooms. We're planning on having the first systems sold by the end of this year'.