Now, more than ever, there's a world of opportunity
for mechanical engineers to build a new sustainable energy supply
and biomedical engineers to bring the next medical technologies into
clinics and homes.
If you choose Mechanical Engineering or
Biomedical Engineering at NUI Galway, you'll be joining a community of
students and staff who have won
awards
for excellence in both teaching and research.
You'll be taking the first steps into a colourful and rewarding career. Browse on to read about the
courses in Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering,
career opportunities,
research
and
people.
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including students and graduates of NUI Galway. You can
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Rocket Engineering
Two Mechanical Engineering PhD students at NUI Galway will research innovative methods of using thermoplastic composite materials to reduce the weight of fuel tanks for space launchers.
The European Space Agency and the Irish Research Council are co-operating with NUIG and several Irish and European companies on the project.
Click here for the full story.
BMERM Programme 2013: Call for Applications...
The Structured PhD Programme in Biomedical Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (BMERM) is an innovative multi-disciplinary, multi-partner PhD programme, combining world-class research (leading to the thesis) and a comprehensive didactic and experiential learning component.
Click here for more details.
What students say
What's Mechanical Engineering all about?
What's Biomedical Engineering all about?
It's not rocket science...
...it's rocket engineering.
Read about how NUI Galway and Galway-based company ÉireComposites are creating
advanced materials and components for wind turbines, Airbus airliners and the
next generation of spacecraft
(scroll down to "rocket materials").
Conferring 2012
The class of 2012 has graduated after four years of hard work, with special awards for some outstanding achievements by students
in biomedical and mechanical engineering.
Click here
for details and pictures.
Inventing a better artificial hip
NUI Galway engineers are developing
OsteoAnchor
, a new type of surface architecture for artificial joints.
OsteoAnchor was recently showcased at the Enterprise Ireland Big Ideas event and featured on the Six-One News.
Click here
for the full story.
Interviews with graduates
Have you seen the
"Bringing dreams to life" TV ad
about engineering? It features NUIG biomedical engineers
Tara McGowan
and
Claire Lillis
(click for extended interviews with them).
The Army bomb disposal officer featured in the ad is a mechanical engineer, also educated at NUI Galway!
Heart valve research
NUIG biomedical/mechanical engineering research on artificial heart valves has appeared as the cover features in the international journal
Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
Read more about it
here
and in the
Irish Times science page.
Biomedical Engineering Researchers win top prizes at the 18th Annual BINI Conference, 2012
Two Biomedical Engineering researchers and a lecturer from the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering have been awarded prizes for their research presentations at the Annual Bioengineering in Ireland (BINI) conference held on 27th January 2012.
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Biomedical Engineering PhD student Eimear Dolan has recently been awarded the National University of Ireland Graduate Travelling Studentship. The awards were presented by Dr Maurice Manning, the Chancellor of the National University of Ireland at a ceremony in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
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NUI Galway Biomedical Engineering Student wins the prestigious Engineers Ireland Innovative Student Engineer Award for her final year project
Fiona Griffin, an Undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering at NUI Galway, has won first prize in the Innovative Student Engineer Awards 2011.
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Highest Academic Honour for Biomedical Engineering Professor
Professor
Peter McHugh
of NUI Galway
has been elected to membership of The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) in recognition of his academic achievement in education and research in the field of biomechanics.
More...
Newsletter
Our
April 2011 newsletter
has updates from past and present students along with news stories in biomedical and mechanical engineering.
Structured PhD Programme in Biomedical Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (BMERM)
This is a new 4-year Structured PhD Programme in Biomedical Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, which will be delivered in partnership by NUI Galway (Administrative Coordinator), University of Limerick and UCC, linked with a wider consortium of national and international partners, to provide an unparalleled learning experience for the student in terms of its combination of world-class research and focused clinical and industrial interaction.
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NUI Galway Postgraduate Students win at the all-island Sir Bernard Crossland Competition
Two PhD research students from the Department won prizes at the 14th Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium, held at the University of Ulster, April 14th and 15th, 2011.
James Grogan won 1st prize for the best overall paper at the competition, from a group of seven finalists representing third level institutions both north and south. James’ paper was entitled “An experimental and computational approach to bioabsorbable metallic stent design”, and he is supervised by Prof. Peter McHugh and Prof Sean Leen. This is a tremendous and highly significant achievement for James and for the Department, as this is the first time that NUI Galway has won the competition since it began in 1997.
Neil Duffy won 3rd prize in the poster competition for a project entitled “A Review of Models for Predicting the Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass”. Neil is supervised by Dr. John Eaton.
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NUI Galway Biomedical Engineering Professor Receives Prestigious Award
NUI Galway’s Professor Peter McHugh from the Discipline of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Informatics, is the 2011 recipient of the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI). The coveted medal is awarded by the RAMI Section of Bioengineering for outstanding career contributions to the field of bioengineering
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NUI Galway Hosts Major Conference on Biomedical Engineering
The major national conference on biomedical engineering, Bioengineering in Ireland 17, was hosted by NUI Galway on the 28th and 29th January, and attended by over 180 researchers from Universities, Institutes of Technology and industry in Ireland and overseas
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NUI Galway Postgraduate Students Win Bioengineering Research Awards!
NUI Galway Postgraduate Biomedical Engineering Students collectively won four research awards at the recent annual Bioengineering in Ireland Conference which was held in Galway showcasing the state-of-the-art research developments in biomedical engineering in Ireland.
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NUI Galway lecturer secures €1.5 million in funding for study on bone function!
Dr Laoise McNamara
has secured €1.5 million in funding from the European Research Council to examine how mechanical forces, like stretching and pulling on cells, can affect our bones.
One study looks at the stresses and strains that help our bones function well, and is being led by Dr Laoise McNamara, a Science Foundation Ireland Stokes lecturer in biomedical engineering at NUI Galway.
More...
Timetables
Timetables
for the 2010/11 teaching year are available now.
January 2010 newsletter
In the
latest newsletter,
we have stories from a mechanical engineer and a biomedical engineering early in their careers, news of biomedical engineering research on back pain, and mechanical engineering bringing new technology to airliners.
Awards for top graduates
The achievements of Evelyn Birmingham and James Grogan, two of our top graduates in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, were recognised with special awards at NUI Galway conferring ceremonies.
More...
June 2009 newsletter out now
In the
latest newsletter,
read profiles of a mechanical engineer developing better wind turbines and a biomedical engineer using anatomical models to improve medical devices.
An employer explains why engineering remains a sound career choice in difficult times.
Major boost for biomedical engineering jobs in Galway
Boston Scientific has announced an investment of €91 million in R&D with 45 new jobs in early-stage innovation of pioneering medical devices
at its Galway plant. (24 June, 2009)
more...
NUI Galway lecturer honoured for engineering excellence
Dr. Conchúr Ó Brádaigh has been awarded the inaugural
Crossland Medal for Engineering Innovation
in recognition of his innovations in thermoplastic composite materials for aircraft and large wind turbine blades.
Dr. Ó Brádaigh is a part-time lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at NUI Galway and joint Managing Director of
ÉireComposites Teo.more...
National award for student research
PhD Student Emer Feerick has won the prize for best research poster at the 12th Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium and Postgraduate Workshop, for her biomedical engineering work on bone fracture repair with supervisor Dr. Pat McGarry.
more...
Students feature in TV documentary
Mechanical engineeiring and biomedical engineering students have featured in a RTÉ television special on NUI Galway.
The full broadcast can be viewed
here.
Students appear at 1 m 30 s into the piece, talking about the biomedical engineering course,
and again at about 19 m 30 s, describing their community engineering projects in the
CAIRDE
programme.
ESB announces energy stimulus plan
ESB's new plan, announced in April 2009, includes
250 new jobs for engineers
in wind power, biomass, electric transport and other emerging energy technologies.
ESB
and
ESBI
employ large numbers of mechanical engineers to design, develop and run their wind, hydroelectric and thermal power stations.
Energy Systems Engineering
In September 2009, NUI Galway will open a
new degree programme
in
Energy Systems Engineering,
designed to equip engineers for creation, design and utilisation of renewable and advanced energy technology.
Students can apply for the course (GY413) using the CAO change of mind procedure up to 1 July.
New biomechanics research at NUI Galway
Research by biomedical engineers at NUI Galway, working in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin,
has resulted in new understanding of the process of tissue engineering.
The work featured as the cover story in the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
More...
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Two Mechanical Engineering PhD students at NUI Galway will research innovative methods of using thermoplastic composite materials to reduce the weight of fuel tanks for space launchers.
The European Space Agency and the Irish Research Council are co-operating with NUIG and several Irish and European companies on the project.
The class of 2012 has graduated after four years of hard work, with special awards for some outstanding achievements by students
in biomedical and mechanical engineering.
NUI Galway engineers are developing
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