MAGAZINE OF CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DECEMBER 2010 VOLUME 12 ISSUE 2

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1 MAGAZINE OF CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DECEMBER 2010 VOLUME 12 ISSUE 2

2 CONTENTS Institute of the Year Award 3 Coud Computing 4 Nimbus Research Centre is formay opened 8 Dr Coffey contributes chapter to Encycopedia of Dairy Sciences 10 Heat Monitoring System is depoyed 10 CAMMS News 11 MEDIC deveops a new design for the IM Nai 13 First Industry and Modue Partnered Innovation Competition 14 Bowing up a Storm in the Windy City 14 Interdiscipinary New Product Deveopment Modue begins 15 Vauabe Research for Fota Widife Park 16 Industry Open the TEC Centre 16 New Book: Management in the Buit Environment in Ireand 17 Newstak Student Enterprise Competition aunch 17 Conferring Business News 20 Food Link Project 21 Green Campus News 22 News in Brief Part 1 23 Cean Technoogy Centre reports 25 NMCI News 28 Thinking Outside the Box 31 CIT Extends its Internationa Network to Incude Saudi Arabia 32 Internationa Engagement with India 33 Department of Bioogica Sciences News 34 First Entrepreneur in Residence 36 Rubicon Centre 37 Careers Fair 38 Access Service Events 39 Internationa Office reports 42 ESB/CIT/DIT Apprentice Engineering Education Programme 45 Crossword 45 News in Brief Part 2 46 VMware IT Academy Launch 47 Cork Schoo of Music reports 48 Nationa Skis Competition 52 Deegation visits Poytech Paris Sud 53 Irish Academy of Management Conference 54 AEHT Conference & Competitions Lisbon 55 REAP Conference Partnerships for Progress 56 Facuty of Business and Humanities Annua Awards Ceremony 58 News in Brief Part 3 60 European Programme on We-Being 61 Mechanica Engineering News 64 CIT Aumni Association 65 Socia Marketing Conferences 68 Crawford Coege of Art & Design News 69 Department of Media Communications News 72 Tom Dennehy Retires 76 Sports & Societies Day 76 Sport News 77 Chinese inks A strong deegation of representatives from CIT, Cork Chamber, UCC and Cork City Counci traveed to Shanghai, China to promote Cork and to deveop new business opportunities and partnerships in cuture, education and research. Representing CIT was Ora Fynn, Acting Head, Crawford Coege of Art & Design who said, Cork Institute of Technoogy is seeking to expore new and consoidate existing reationships with Universities in Shanghai, Daian, Wuhan and Jingzhou. Particuar areas of interest are in Art & Design, where CIT Crawford Coege of Art & Design wishes to estabish connections with the Coege of Fine Art at the University of Shanghai, with a view to bringing the work of renowned gass artist Prof. XiaoWei Zhuang and his students to exhibit in the CCAD s new exhibition space at Wandesford Quay Gaery. The Nationa Maritime Coege of Ireand, which is part of CIT, wi aso feature in the promotiona activity. The week-ong visit buids on the success of previous missions since the twinning of Cork and Shanghai in May China is now one of the word s eading economies and Cork businesses are competing and seeking to win business in this dynamic and fast changing market. Businesses from the construction, tourism, education, engineering and technoogy sectors wi buid on this success and take part in a range of promotiona events with their Shanghai counterparts with a view to generating business and highighting the opportunities which exist for Chinese companies to invest in Cork. UCC and CIT representatives wi seek to further deveop educationa and research inkages whie Cork City Counci wi focus on furthering cutura partnerships. PhD Student, Xiao Fang Zhang showcased a promotiona CIT DVD, designed to attract Chinese Students to study at CIT, at the Irish Paviion at Expo 10 in Shanghai, China. The three-minute promotiona video was produced by Raven Design in Cork and showcased the best of Cork and Xiao s experience since coming to Ireand. Xiao, originay from Daian City, in China, has been a student at CIT since 2004 and graduated with a BEng (Honours) in Mechanica Engineering. Xiao s Postcard from the Edge OF Europe can be viewed at Artices and photographs for the next issue of the magazine can be sent to Anne Twohig, CIT Press, Cork Institute of Technoogy, Bishopstown, Cork. E: anne.twohig@cit.ie Editor: Anne Twohig Design: Raven Design Print: City Print Acknowedgements: Many thanks to a who contributed artices and to photographers: Barry O Suivan, CIT; Nei Danton, News Digita; Viv Gough; Gerard O Donovan; Pasca Ungerer; RDS; David O Suivan and Kearney and Meia, PR. Statements and opinions expressed herein are not necessariy those of Cork Institute of Technoogy.

3 Survey names CIT as Institute of Technoogy of the Year CIT has been named as Institute of Technoogy of the Year in The Sunday Times University Guide, one of the argest, and most respected, such guides in the word with 1.4m copies printed in different editions. CIT was previousy recognised as Institute of Technoogy of the Year in The award is based on performance in The Sunday Times eague tabe which is drawn up from criteria incuding the caibre of students the institution attracts, research quaity, degree resuts achieved, student/staff ratios, graduate empoyment eves and student retention rates. CIT s seection for this prestigious award was aso based on CIT moving up two paces on The Sunday Times Irish University eague tabe for 2010/11; having Ireand s second best empoyment rate in the third eve sector and very strong student satisfaction. CIT was aso recognised for having the best output of postgraduate research students in the institute of technoogy sector; enhanced student services with the new Access and Disabiity Support Centre and increased invovement with the arts with the opening of its new city centre art gaery in the Wandesford Quay Gaery. CIT s expanded Internationa inks were recognised, such as its partnership with The University of Pune, one of India s eading universities. Its strong track record in research and supporting start-up businesses and its appointment of one the country s first Entrepreneurs in Residence, Kieran Moynihan, who began his roe this September at CIT, were aso contributory factors. We must not rest on our aures. Increased demand, and the economic situation, means that there are many chaenges and changes ahead for the higher education sector. We wi continue to do what we do best: teach, innovate, engage externay and create a cuture where students, graduates and staff can be at their best. From this wi come our success and our continued contribution to the country s future. Finay, I must pay tribute to our Governing Body, and particuary to its Chairman, Dr Paddy Caffrey, for their diigence, guidance and sagacity over the years. Aso commenting on the Award, CIT Registrar and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr Barry O Connor, said: We are particuary peased that the Institute s commitment to the fu spectrum of the Student Experience is recognised, from Access initiatives through undergraduate success to postgraduate and industry engagement. This engagement by CIT staff, on behaf of the Institute s student popuation, is refected in the consistenty high demand for our graduates and the equay successfu record of the Institute in attracting funding for appied research. It is vita for the we being and advancement of the third eve sector that such engagement with the student, on one hand, and the enterprise/community/ business sectors, on the other, are integrated in the mission and the deivery of CIT. Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT, said: We are extremey peased to be awarded the tite of Institute of Technoogy of the Year. This is a great honour for our students, our staff and for Cork. It is gratifying that so many of our innovations, be they academic, in terms of course provision, or physica, in terms of our new Access and Disabiity Support Centre and our acquisition of the CIT Wandesford Gaery, have been noted for praise. This diversity is key to our continued success: we operate cutting edge engineering and science research centres aongside coeges teaching art, music, business, humanities and maritime studies; we offer an extremey wide range of highy sought after courses on a campus with some of the country s finest sports faciities. 3

4 EMC-VMware-CIT and coud computing Today, most businesses rey on coud computing in one form or another, even if it is not part of officia corporate IT strategy. Ask any business person if they resort to using Gmai, Hotmai or another web-based emai system as a back-up to their primary work emai, and most wi confirm that they do. In such cases, coud computing is widey accepted because it gets the job done. What is ess cear, however, is which coud infrastructure mode wi emerge as the market eader for enterprise wide appications and services. There are private couds within individua enterprises, the pubic coud, federated/ shared structures, and hybrids that combine eements of a three. A private coud exists behind a company s firewa and incudes highy virtuaised compute, storage, network and workpace environments. Whie concerns persist over security, data privacy, performance and commercia terms, organisations do not need to reinquish contro over their vauabe corporate information using a private coud infrastructure. Some workoads and appications are not candidates for the pubic coud and wi remain behind a company s firewa, whie other content may not require such stringent contro, enabing an organisation to tap into the shared poo of infrastructure resources and third party services avaiabe through the pubic coud. The pubic coud consists of pre-packaged services, avaiabe through third parties incuding infrastructure, patform and appication services. As yet, there are insufficient virtuaised private environments and pubicy avaiabe services to operate a true coud environment. However, that wi change and companies wi need to anayse the advantages and disadvantages of private versus pubic coud computing, depending on their organisation s particuar needs. For smaer organisations, for exampe, coud computing offers unprecedented access to the type of fexibe, scaabe systems that, previousy, were ony avaiabe to arge enterprises. Private coud becomes an option where a provider wi depoy dedicated hardware on or offsite, which an IT user wi then run services from. The private nature of this impementation means that businesses have the abiity to fuy customise their coud environment. However, the costs invoved in buiding the coud infrastructure can outweigh the benefits. Hence, it tends to be arge goba enterprises with mutipe ocations that typicay go down the private coud route, giving them the fexibiity and scaabiity of coud, whie gaining better contro and centraising management responsibiities. When considering moving towards coud computing, essentiay, both interna and externa appications need to be managed in an integrated, uniform fashion across whatever sort of coud infrastructure they are hosted on. So whether you re an enterprise creating your own private coud or a service provider deivering pubic coud services, poor performance wi immediatey erode trust, reduce adoption and impact revenue. End-to-end appication performance management is critica to ensuring high-quaity coud services both internay and externay. The Opportunity From a management perspective, when an organisation depoys coud computing, there are certain things its eaders expect to happen. They wi sign a contract. They wi need to define governance, security and service eve agreements. They may need to adapt existing business processes in order to embrace new appications and news ways of working. What they might not anticipate is how coud computing wi change the roe payed by the company s CIO and the cuture of the whoe IT organisation. The speed to depoyment and deivery of service that Coud offers, means IT is approached differenty rather than being the person who buids and manages the infrastructure, the CIO, IT directors and managers become the peope that can spend time doing things the business reay care about and can deiver true vaue to the organisation, rather than just keeping the ights on. If CIOs insist on remaining in contro of interna appications and spending their time worrying about infrastructure issues, they may quicky become irreevant. The move to coud computing shoud be seen as an opportunity to deiver rea financia impact, to hep the business better manage the investment portfoio which is the true roe of a CIO and IT manager. Whie services may become utiities, they are a ong way from being something you pug in and forget about. Coud is a sophisticated tooset that requires carefu thought about how you manage and adapt existing processes, how to continue to coach the business to keep it moving forward, and there are significant integration chaenges. The coud environment aso opens up an opportunity to be more innovative. CIO s wi have to become comfortabe with a faster pace of doing business, as major innovations can be impemented in a much shorter period, as can the competition. Coud appications tend to be updated much more frequenty than oder appications, which often were eft to just side into obsoescence. This new agiity wipes out the natura advantage companies with arge IT operations traditionay had over smaer, newer businesses, creating a more eve paying fied for organisations of a sizes. 4

5 Key drivers of change There are three key drivers for organisations ooking at better ways of managing their information more efficienty and cost effectivey: 1) Information is growing by 60% year on year. For many organisations, keeping pace with that kind of growth has become more onerous in recent years than ever before, putting skis in information and storage management to the test and pushing demand for storage capacity to new heights. 2) At the same time IT managers are aso wresting with new ega and reguatory demands that dictate what data must be kept, for how ong and how quicky it must be retrieved. And they must find smarter, more innovative toos and technoogies to address these chaenges, against a backdrop of widespread IT spending cuts. 3) Our economic sowdown is compeing organisations to be more stringent on the purchase of storage media and systems. Many data centres are rapidy running out of space, and power consumption needs to be decreased yet they are sti to manage growing data. As a resut, they wi be forced to get more not ony from existing storage systems, by boosting utiisation rates and jettisoning redundant and dupicate information, but aso from avaiabe data centre space, by consoidating storage capacity into fewer, more efficienty utiised systems. A three-pronged attack In the drive for greater efficiency, say industry watchers, organisations wi batte that storm on three fronts: compexity, cost and automation. In terms of compexity, for exampe, high-profie initiatives ike storage consoidation and virtuaisation have greaty simpified and demystified storage infrastructures. However, if not approached in the right way, such technoogies can create more information management chaenges than they sove. Storage consoidation and virtuaisation shoud be focused on how an organisation manages its information and not how it stores its data. From a cost perspective, organisations need to cassify and tier their information and dedupicate. Storage tiering requires working cosey with the business units across an organisation to put poicies in pace aowing current, business critica data to be stored on high-performance disk drives and oder data to be archived to very arge, ower-performing drives. Dedupication technoogies are used to detect and eiminate information that is aready stored esewhere in an organisation s storage infrastructure and this can work at a number of different eves. Fie-eve dedupication, for exampe, is where one copy of a fie is retained as a reference and a other copies of the fie are repaced with a unique identifier, or pointer, to the fie. Objecteve dedupication, can be appied not just to a singe fie, but aso to coections of fies usuay associated with compiance projects. Finay, bock-eve dedupication breaks data into sma bocks, or chunks, and assigns a unique identifier to each chunk this is argey reevant in back-up and restore environments today. The third step is automation. Today s storage automation technoogy aims to take day-to-day storage decisions and tasks out of the hands of hard-pressed IT staff and automaticay aocate data and information to different storage tiers, according to predefined rues reating to their business vaue. Automation toos for storage virtuaisation, thin provisioning and tiered storage are three hot tickets in this space. A more inteigent approach to information management and storage needs to take a three storm fronts into account. But wider economic conditions notwithstanding, it s a great time for companies to think about re-architecting their storage infrastructures, because the efficiency gains and increased vaue that can be achieved wi make maximum impact on efficiency focused businesses. With a virtuaised environment, organisations have the opportunity to get their entire IT infrastructure running as a singe poo of highy efficient computing resources. Having embraced virtuaisation, some organisations are using eary wins in the area to start exporing coud computing in more depth. Because virtua machines are hardware independent and portabe, virtuaisation can hep customers move their appications between their own data centres or the interna coud and externa couds. This idea of federation between interna and externa couds based on virtuaisation is where the deveopments in this area are being focused. Virtuaisation is the first step on the journey to coud computing. The direction taken by organisations, is often ead by their technoogy partners. 5

6 Acceerating the Journey to the Coud In order to address wordwide spending on data centre technoogy and services, EMC, VMware and Cisco aunched the Virtua Computing Environment coaition, an unprecedented coaboration of three information technoogy giants. According to McKinsey and Company, IT costs exceed $350 biion annuay with haf spent on products and haf on operating expenses services and abour. Approximatey 70% is spent on maintaining existing infrastructures, eaving 30% or ess for new technoogy initiatives and appications that can provide breakthrough differentiation for businesses. It is aso estimated that approximatey $85 biion, or 20% of the infrastructure market, can be addressed with data centre virtuaisation and private coud technoogy by 2015, two cornerstones of the VCE proposition. Aeviating the concerns of companies that are reuctant to trust their IT infrastructure and services to a pubic patform, the VCE offers a radica new approach to enterprise IT infrastructure. The coaition has created Vbock infrastructure packages to hep organisations streamine and optimise IT strategies around private couds, and restructure controed data centre environments to provide on-demand and software-as-a-service soutions. The ready-to-go packages are fuy integrated, tested, vaidated and highy scaabe, combining best-in-cass virtuaisation, networking, computing, storage, security, and management technoogies from Cisco, EMC and VMware with end-to-end vendor accountabiity. The packages hep customers create an environment for a virtua IT infrastructure that is securey controed and operated soey for one organisation, run either by themseves or a service provider, on or off-site. This offers organisations of a size an acceerated approach to data centre transformation with dramatic efficiencies that promise significant reductions in both capita and operating expenses, with proven savings of around 40 per cent and quick return on investment. Furthermore, organisations no onger have to choose between best-of-breed technoogies and end-to-end vendor accountabiity it both simpifies the infrastructure and customer engagement using a goba community of systems integrators, service providers, channe partners, and independent software vendors to ro out the packages. Coud Computing Degree CIT In order to address current industry chaenges and the increasing customer demand for coud computing soutions, EMC s empoyees identified a need for upskiing in this area. Based on EMC s ongoing reationship with CIT and the Institute s strong credentias in the area of coud computing, EMC approached CIT in November 2009 to assist EMC in deveoping and deivering a part-time upskiing and re-skiing programme for its staff members. The Virtua Computing Environment (VCE) coaition and supporting customers journey to the private coud, is a key strategy for EMC going forward. Therefore, the aim of a new degree programme is to hep empoyees upski in the area of coud computing. The course contains an in depth review of storage (EMC), virtuaization (VMware), networking (Cisco) and security (RSA) as we as the underying technoogies associated with Coud Computing. As an education partner CIT offers a quaity educationa experience and has forged strong inks with EMC, VMware and Cisco incuding: A track record of deivering programmes for EMC A Cisco Networking Regiona Academy with state of the art abs A virtuaisation offering with VMware Academy Staff expertise in the area of cryptography and security Tim Horgan eads the curricuum design team, joined by subject experts from EMC, VMware, Cisco and RSA. This team designed new modues in the area of storage, networking, virtuaisation and security which wi be compimented by existing modues to form new eve 8 and eve 9 offerings in coud computing. The theory component of each modue wi be deivered on the EMC campus with aboratory work on the CIT campus. 30 students were identified within EMC and VMware and in September 2010 the course started with Networking and Programming bridging moving into Leve 7 in January This course wi take the students 18 months to compete, on successfu competion the students move into the Leve 8 in coud computing. The roadmap has schedued a standaone Leve 8 and Leve 9 offering in September which wi be made avaiabe for remote/onine deivery for the first time. This wi open up the course to goba audiences in EMC, with Cisco, VMWare and RSA as potentia participants. 6

7 The road ahead Current economic and information growth pressures demand a compete reassessment of information management strategies at many organisations. That wi be no easy task particuary because it wi require a compete break from recent practice when it comes to making storage and information management investments. As part of this, the decision to move to coud computing is ooking ess ike a conscious decision and more ike a natura, ogica evoution as time progresses. The interesting choices around which coud to depoy wi be dependent on what an organisation needs, what resources they have and which partners they choose to work with through this organisationa and infrastructure changes. Further education in the area of coud computing wi ensure empoyees across the VCE coaition wi be in the best position to deiver the highest eves of service as the VCE heps customers acceerate their journey to the coud. (L R) Jim O Dwyer, Head, Department of Computing, CIT; Bob Savage, Vice President, EMC Ireand Centre of Exceence; Michae Loftus, Head of Facuty of Engineering & Science, CIT; and John Doan, Senior Director VMware GSS EMEA, Japan, China. (L R) Pat Punch, Senior Manager, Customer Service Remote, EMC Ireand Centre of Exceence; Jim O Dwyer; Mary Buter, Learning & Deveopment Manager, EMC Ireand Centre of Exceence; Bob Savage; Michae Loftus; John Doan; Kate O Connor, HR Director, EMC Ireand Centre of Exceence; Gordon O Reiy, Programme Manager, VMware; Andrew Mucahy, Senior HR Business Partner, VMware. (L R) Pat Punch; Mary Buter; and Tim Horgan, Coud Computing Programme Coordinator and Lecturer, CIT. 7

8 Nimbus Research Centre is formay opened On 20th September, the Nimbus Research Centre was formay opened by Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O Keeffe. CIT senior staff, Nimbus research coeagues from CIT and from a over Ireand, and Nimbus industry partners were among the arge attendance. Foowing a wecoming address by Michae Deaney, CIT Vice-President for Deveopment, Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT, made an address in which he described the importance of the Nimbus buiding for CIT: To begin with, it makes for a more efficient innovation ecosystem. It greaty enhances CIT s interaction with our academic coaborators and our industry partners, both of whom have dedicated office and aboratory spaces in the buiding. It provides an environment where researchers from varied and diverse backgrounds can meet at any time and from these encounters new ideas can be reguary generated. It houses a the faciities that a modern industry-facing research and innovation centre requires to be internationay competitive. It faciitates interactions between undergraduates and those who have experiences beyond theirs. It encourages and teaches entrepreneurship within a rea word environment, soving rea word probems, yet sti reying on fundamenta understanding of engineering and science to do so. In this way, undergraduate students get a better appreciation of the need to be abe to sove probems and not merey memorise facts and figures In short, NIMBUS brings greater coherence, coordination and concentration to our research and innovation efforts, thereby making sure that CIT addresses fundamenta issues within the Smart Economy in a cost efficient manner that ensures vaue for the money invested by the State. The foowing address was then given by Dr Dirk Pesch, Head of Centre, in which he reviewed the background, activities and objectives of Nimbus: I am deighted to stand here today at the opening of the Nimbus Research Centre, ooking back at the ong journey my coeagues and I have undertaken from the sma research group we setup in 2001, starting with 5 researchers, to one of the argest research centres in the IoT sector and the Irish third eve sector in genera, with more than 60 researchers today. The Nimbus Centre for Embedded Systems Research is now one of Ireand s premier research organisations in the area of embedded eectronic and computing systems research. But what are embedded systems? Embedded systems are the hidden computers which quiety monitor and contro many aspects of our daiy ives. Without embedded systems, domestic appiances woud stop working, cars and a other forms of transport woud come to a hat and our offices, factories and hospitas woud cease to function. For every computer we can see, there are 100 embedded computers keeping equipment and communication systems running, keeping eectricity fowing and keeping us safe in our homes, cars and workpaces. Within 10 years, as embedded systems become used to reduce our energy bis, to cean up our environment and to monitor our persona heath, that figure wi increase tenfod. The embedded systems industry wi be one of the argest in the word and wi be a major sector of Ireand s knowedge economy. Our research focuses on embedded systems, but not on singe embedded systems, but rather on the new concepts of networked embedded systems and the Internet of Things. Most embedded systems today work in isoation, but we don t want the ABS brake embedded system in your car to just make sure your brakes work we - we want it to communicate with the cars behind you to aert them when you are braking hard so that their drivers can avoid an accident. We don t want the embedded system in your washing machine to just make sure your cothes are ceaned we want it to coaborate with the embedded systems in your other appiances 8 CIT Vice President for Deveopment, Michae Deaney; CIT Aumnus Robert Short; CIT President Dr Brendan Murphy, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O Keeffe, TD and Dr Dirk Pesch, Head of NIMBUS Research Centre.

9 and with your eectricity suppier to make sure your appiances run when the wind bows to take advantage of renewabe wind energy rather than eectricity from the fossi fue power stations that add so much to green house gas emissions. We don t want you to have to go to hospita for medica tests when embedded diagnostic systems can continuousy monitor your heath wherever you are. A word where the everyday objects in our ives can sense and coaborate this is the Internet of Things and, just as the Internet has transformed our ives beyond recognition in ony 20 years, we are ony beginning the visuaize the technoogica and socia transformations that the Internet of Things wi bring about. Our research in Nimbus and with our NEMBES partners in UCC, Tynda, Trinity Coege, UCD, NUI Gaway, the Cork Centre for Architectura Education, Cork University Hospita, and Cork City Counci, investigates how networked embedded systems and the Internet of Things can make a difference to a of our ives. We are working on making buidings more energy efficient and a more comfortabe work and iving environment for their occupants, we are investigating how such systems can increase patient safety in hospitas, and we investigate how networked vehices and smart highways can make transportation more efficient and safer. But we do not ony carry out research for research s sake, we aso educate the next generation of engineers to innovate in the space of embedded systems and to deveop innovative embedded systems products. We aso coaborate with industry to transfer our findings into the rea word and to hep industry to be more innovative and competitive. We have coaborated with over 70 Irish companies over the ast three years, we are aso enabing the participation of Irish SMEs in European research and deveopment projects so they can expoit partnership and export opportunities across Europe. We are aso active in securing Inteectua Property for Ireand and are icensing technoogy to industry to hep them with their innovation needs. The Centre and the buiding we are opening today have not come about through the work of a singe person - they are the resut of the hard work and dedication of a team of researchers, the generous support of the HEA and other funding agencies such as Enterprise Ireand and SFI, the exceent coaboration with our partners from across Ireand, and the fantastic support that CIT, in particuar the President and the Deveopment and Research Offices have given us. On behaf of a of my coeagues in Nimbus, I woud ike to thank the Minister and the HEA for their generous financia support of the NEMBES PRTLI cyce 4 project, which has enabed CIT to buid this state-of-the-art research environment, I woud ike to thank Rob Short, a former graduate of CIT, for a the advice and support he has given us in equipping this buiding and its aboratories with state of the art instrumentation, I woud ike to thank a funding agencies for their continued support of our research, I woud ike to thank our NEMBES partners for supporting our appication for funding and their exceent coaboration in the NEMBES research programme, and I woud ike to thank our coeagues in CIT, in particuar the deveopment and research offices and our coeagues in the department of Eectronic Engineering for their support and contribution to reaching this miestone we are ceebrating today. A specia thanks must aso go to Larry Poand and Pau Siney, former heads of Eectronic Engineering, who had a vision for research and education that inspired us to get to where we are today. We ook forward to continuing to drive technoogy deveopment in the area of networked embedded systems in coaboration with our partners across Ireand and Europe. Minister O Keeffe then addressed the audience prior to the unveiing of a paque commemorating the opening, stating that: At this time of economic chaenge, it is more important than ever that we obtain vaue for money from our State investments. I am deighted to say that the NIMBUS faciity was buit on time and under the origina budget. It was one of the first PRTLI Cyce Four-funded buidings in the country to be operationa. Gobay, embedded systems research is a muti-biion euro industry offering enormous export potentia for Ireand. This is significant because our economic recovery wi be export-ed and the activities in NIMBUS can be readiy transated into goba products and processes. We have aready heard about the transationa capabiities of the research and innovation ongoing here and how this is being appied across many discipines from ICT to biotech to heath and energy. This broad appicabiity of NIMBUS is both a hamark and an assurance of sustainabe funding pathways in the future. The Innovation Taskforce identified the need to ensure we transate research investment into sustainabe jobs and economic growth. We need to strengthen the inks between our research institutions and industry to ensure that we deveop, transfer and appy knowedge in productive ways. I am peased to say that CIT is performing exceptionay in this area. In the past three years, NIMBUS researchers have engaged with over 70 companies in funded projects, amost 60 of which are Irish SMEs, and with a further 80 companies in providing advice. It is further heartening to see that NIMBUS researchers are the top performers in Ireand in terms of Innovation Vouchers. They now have a series of successfu innovation partnerships and direct industry funding where Irish industry ooks to NIMBUS to provide soutions that increase their commercia competitiveness. These industria-academic coaborations are centra to the Government s economic strategy of creating a thriving enterprise sector and highquaity empoyment. Embedded systems are used in every technoogica sector for sensing, measurement, diagnostics and contro. The eectronic products, machines and instruments that we use coud not function without embedded systems and they are enabing innovative new products every day. We encourage anybody who is curious about embedded systems for innovation, research and earning to contact us at The Nimbus centre was co-funded by the Irish Government s Programme for Research in Third Leve Institutions Cyce 4 and the European Regiona Deveopment Fund

10 CIT author contributes chapter to Encycopedia of Dairy Sciences Dr Aidan Coffey at the Department of Bioogica Sciences contributed a chapter on Lactococcus actis in the new 4-voume Encycopedia of Dairy Sciences. The Encycopedia, to be pubished by Esevier Ltd, is a compete resource for researchers, students and practitioners invoved in a aspects of dairy science and reated food science and technoogy areas. Extensivey cross-referenced, it covers the core theories, methods, and techniques empoyed by scientists. It wi enabe readers to access basic information on topics periphera to their own areas, provides a repository of the core information in the area that can be used to refresh the researcher s own memory, and aids teachers in directing students to areas reevant to their course work. Aidan Coffey, the invited corresponding author of the chapter, was assisted by co-authors and research coaborators Dr Susan Mis (Research Officer at Moorepark Food Research Centre, Fermoy, Co. Cork) and Prof. Pau Ross (Head of Teagasc Food Programme and Director of Moorepark Food Research Centre, Fermoy, Co. Cork). The Encycopedia wi be avaiabe to University ibraries ater this year (estimated cost US$ ). Case Study Heat Monitoring System, Eurotech Group A new prototype heat monitoring system designed by the TEC (Technoogies for Embedded Computing) Centre, CIT, has been depoyed in Dunshaughin Creche, Co Meath. This monitoring programme was initiated by Eurotech Group, a sustainabe heating soutions company, in an effort to show the benefit of using a proper air to water heat pump. The Eurotech Group found it difficut to convince potentia customers of the cost benefits of their EuroSmart heating system. Peope are apprehensive about moving away from oi or gas because green sustainabe technoogies come with imited proof. To resove those questions, it was decided that a prototype remote monitoring system to prove the EuroSmart performance shoud be deveoped. The EuroSmart system contains an Ochsner Airtherma super spit system which has the abiity to deiver perfect resuts in a extremities in Irish weather surpassing Oi, Gas and Geotherma. A project funded with an Enterprise Ireand Innovation Voucher was setup with the TEC Centre to monitor the performance reated to the integration of EuroSmart contros and geotherma heating with the use of rea working systems. The prototype system incudes a remote station which is capabe of monitoring in rea-time the source temperature (air temperature in case of air to water heat pumps), interna buiding temperature, fow rate, fow temperature and eectrica power consumption of the heat pump. These parameters are then used to evauate true efficiency of the heating system. The reevant data is communicated via GSM/GPRS ink to a base station for processing and storage. The base-station operates a simpe web-based user interface designed to coect and represent the monitored data in a simpe intuitive graphica format. By aowing access to the current and past efficiency profies, the user wi be abe to asses the true performance of the heating system under various operating scenarios and weather conditions. Gerard Duffy of Eurotech says over the past few years Ireand has been invaded by an infux of air to water heat pumps which are actuay air conditioning machines modified to work as air to water heat pumps. A ive independent monitoring system wi prove the humid Irish cimate is idea for air to water heat pumps to deiver the highest resuts on efficiency and seasona performance, surpassing a other forms of Geotherma heating. The resuts from the project have shown there are substantia cost benefits to be gained by using a proper air to water heat pump to operate in difficut environments incuding freezing fog. The system was depoyed at the end of October and is currenty gaining vauabe data which is being recorded for further optimisations. Further information on the project and access to the ive monitoring system can be found at: ie/eurotech/index.php. 10

11 CAMMS news Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Management Systems (CAMMS) is attached to the Departments of Biomedica, Manufacturing, Faciities and Mechanica Engineering. The Centre uses the expertise of these departments in soving probems for industry and in deivering up to date training and education. CAMMS is currenty deveoping thematic knowedge areas that refect the strengths of the facuty. Themes incude: Contro & Automation Sustainabe Energy Biomedica Engineering Quaity, Lean and Six Sigma Project Management Manufacturing Engineering CAMMS acquires Leonardo Da Vinci Mobiity Funding CAMMS has acquired approximatey 100,000 as part of the Leonardo Da Vinci Mobiity programme. As part of this programme, 40 participants working in the areas of construction or faciities engineering, wi visit the Kompetenz Zentrum für Hozbau und Ausbau (KOMZET), in Biberach an der Riss, Germany. Participants wi attend a two week programme on Passive Housing and Sustainabe Energy Technoogy using timber frame construction, i.e. PHASE. The programme wi consist of a combination of six days training/practicas and four days onsite work experience. This wi be an idea environment for the transfer of knowedge and for the hands on appication of that knowedge. As part of the programme, participants wi: Appraise the energy systems invoved in passive buiding operations. Cacuate the operationa performance of equipment used in buiding heating, cooing and ventiation, utiising sustainabe sources. Evauate the criteria required to compete a design study for an energy systems for a buiding. The Biberach region is a centre of exceence in the buiding of passive houses using timber frame construction. Buiding reguations for passive houses are extremey stringent and through KOMZET, innovative manufacturing processes have been deveoped to meet these stringent reguations. This programme wi promote cooperation between centres of exceence for the transfer of knowedge, give participants the opportunity to gain essentia internationa work experience (promoting mobiity), and the transfer of innovative practices. Leonardo Da Vinci is part of the European Commission s Lifeong Learning Programme , and focuses on vocationa education and training, using transnationa cooperation to improve quaity, foster innovation and promote the European dimension of vocationa education and training systems and practices The genera objectives of the programme are to: support participants in training and further training activities enabe participants to acquire and use knowedge, skis and quaifications to faciitate their persona deveopment, empoyabiity and participation in the European Labour Market The funding wi contribute towards: Trainers from Ireand, UK, Denmark, Spain, France and Germany attend the KOMZET Centre as part of a two week programme on the Energy Performance of Buidings. A training materia was deveoped by CAMMS. trave accommodation subsistence anguage, cutura or pedagogica preparation project management and monitoring 11

12 CAMMS aunches Dipoma in Project Management The new programme, Dipoma in Project Management, commenced on October 29th, in the Rubicon Centre. The course is a combination of ectures, seminars, case studies, guest speakers, simuations and practica projects. The fu programme consists of 14 fu days, to be deivered over six months. The programme is made up of three modues (two at eve 8 and one at eve 9) each of which can be taken separatey. The fu programme wi be accredited as a 15 credit Specia Purpose Award at eve 8 on the Nationa Framework of Quaifications. Covering a knowedge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowedge (PMBOK - which is administered by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the USA), the Dipoma in Project Management is an academicay rigorous, engaging, chaenging and rewarding earning experience. With the emergence of Project Management as a standaone profession, internationa accreditation across industries is becoming increasingy important. The course aso prepares participants for the Project Management Institute (PMI) exams for certification as a Project Management Professiona (PMP ). Student Enterprise What does the student internship entai? CIT Student Enterprise Intern programme was estabished to promote, deveop and sustain enterprise among students in CIT. It is committed to heping students find out more about enterprise and to encourage participation. Throughout the coege year many events and competitions wi take pace on and off campus to faciitate this effort. Starting up a campus company is a daunting task; however the potentia rewards are endess. With the success of previous campus start-ups such as Googe and Facebook, the programme wi convey to students that it is possibe to deveop their own company. Working cosey with the Rubicon Incubation Centre, the seed of enterprise and entrepreneurship wi be deveoped. The CIT Student Enterprise Intern programme was officiay aunched in September There is widespread support for this project from the Director, Governing Body, Academic Community, and from externa organisations such as Cork City and County Enterprise Board. Student Enterprise Intern Training Student Enterprise Intern training took pace on the 18th and 19th October. Six interns attended the training from IT Sigo, DKIT, Banchardstown IT, and CIT (Nicoa Wash BBus, and Johnny Sheehy BEng.). The training incuded presentation skis, team buiding exercises and a chance to anayse current competitions and ideas for improvement. The Goa for the Future? Foowing successfu trends in American Universities, the overa aim is to change students ways of thinking in regards to enterprise and innovation. Creative and innovative ideas from the student s popuation can ead to infinite success and in turn create empoyment. With the fast moving economies of the word and the power of the internet causing amost instant gobaization, it is crucia to gain first mover advantage in many markets. Students have the abiity to get to the market first, even whie undertaking academic activities. Upcoming Events (pease check for further detais) Entrepreneur workshops for the CIT Prize for Innovation. Business Pan workshop Financia workshop Lega Workshop Innovation Workshop Creative Workshop Student Enterprise Interns Nicoa Wash and Johnny Sheehy with CIT Entrepreneur in Residence, Kieran Moynihan. 12

13 MEDIC team Deveop a New Design for the IM Nai The Medica Engineering Design and Innovation Centre (MEDIC) is supported by the Enterprise Ireand Appied Research Enhancement (ARE) programme, with the aim of buiding the Biomedica Engineering and Medica Device Product Deveopment capabiity within CIT. MEDIC brings together the fu set of skis to deveop medica devices with cinicians, inventors and/or industry partners. These ideas are taken from initia concept, through the product deveopment pipeine and on to commerciaisation. Physicians are experts in the cinica needs aspect of product research and deveopment but do not aways have the technica expertise to convert the idea into a tangibe product or technoogy. The MEDIC team has the technica skis to deveop these medica device ideas and convert cinica needs into commercia reaity. One such medica device which the MEDIC team is deveoping is a nove intrameduary (IM) nai for treating fractures of the ong bones in the ower imbs. IM nais are thin rods, usuay made of a titanium aoy, that are inserted into the hoow space inside the bone caed the meduary cavity. IM nais are widey used to treat fractures because they produce fewer compications such as infection and reoperation compared to externa stabiisation devices, which require surgica pins to pass through the skin for the duration of treatment. The MEDIC team has been working to deveop a new IM nai that wi acceerate fracture heaing to get patients back on their feet sooner. The project began in 2006 and was inspired by the cinica observations of James Harty, who is now a consutant orthopaedic surgeon in Cork University Hospita. Mr Harty recognised that IM nais have not changed much in severa decades and that something coud be done to improve patient outcomes. A synthetic shin bone with an IM nai inserted is shown mounted on one of CIT s mechanica testing machines. A measurement device caed an extensometer was attached around the fracture to record the motion between the bone fragments whie the machine appied oads representative of waking. Simiar tests were performed on prototypes of the nove IM nai The MEDIC team expored a variety of design concepts and in ate 2008 they appied for and received a Proof of Concept (POC) grant from the Enterprise Ireand Commerciaisation Fund to deveop the technoogy. A preiminary patent appication was fied in August 2009 to protect the core design concept. Work on the POC commenced in autumn 2009 when severa new staff members started work in MEDIC. The IM nai team now incuded staff with extensive experience in medica device product and process deveopment, biomechanics research, cinica tria management, as we as Mr Harty who continued to offer cinica guidance. For the next severa months, the team investigated dozens of aternative design concepts, which were generated in group brainstorming and sketching sessions. The goa of this phase of the project was to redesign the initia concept to make it easier to manufacture and minimise surgica time and compexity, whie offering the same cinica benefit for patients. The team aso undertook a comprehensive review of the cinica iterature pertaining to ong-bone fracture heaing and this process produced severa new design guideines. Approximatey 20 reated design concepts, or embodiments of the invention, were incuded in a suppementary patent fiing to broaden the inteectua property (IP) footprint of the technoogy. The team then chose a few eading design concepts, tested prototypes, and refined the designs. In the spring of 2010, one concept emerged with key advantages in terms of simpicity, manufacturabiity, and the potentia for acceerated heaing compared to standard IM nais. With the hep of coaborators from the Department of Anatomy in University Coege Cork, Mr Harty impanted prototype IM nais into cadaver tibiae, or shin bones, with simuated fractures. The MEDIC team tested the bones with the nove IM nais and confirmed that the device performed as expected. The test data aso suggested some design modifications to enhance heaing. Armed with this information, the team competed the fina internationa patent fiing in August 2010 and continued the design refinement process. The team is currenty testing the atest-generation prototype and another cadaver study is being panned. 13

14 First Industry and Modue Partnered Innovation Competition The Department of Accounting and Information Systems in conjunction with Conakity Agricutura Coege announced the winners of the first industry and modue partnered Innovation Competition sponsored by AIBP (Ango Irish Beef Processors) Bandon. AIBP Bandon worked cosey with students studying Entrepreneurship to investigate business opportunities in the Beef and Agricuture Sector. Students, working in teams from the BSc in Agricuture and BBus (Honours) in Information Systems, presented business pans which were assessed by the three partner organisations in this competition. John Keeher, Manager, AIBP Bandon says We were very impressed with the standard of work, the students enthusiasm and their engagement with the competition. AIBP is deighted to be working cosey with CIT and Conakity Agricutura Coege in supporting and deveoping this Innovation Competition for students in the future. On the 14th May 2010, the foowing students were awarded first and second prizes from the CIT, Conakity Agricutura Coege, and AIBP Innovation Competition: 1st prize - 1,000 to Edmond Curtin, and James Fitzgerad 2nd prize to Kevin Humphreys, Eoin Murphy, and Patrick Keane Bowing up a Storm in the Windy City In October, CIT Bioinformatics group, headed-up by Dr Pau Wash (Computer Science) and Dr Roy Seator (Bioogica Sciences), joined two other Cork based start-up companies in a Cork County Counci ead trade mission to Chicago, Iinois. During the week ong visit, hosted by Cook County (twinned with Cork County Counci), Seator and Wash presented their work on BioMapper a coud based computing system which provides software for ife at a number of meetings with both academics and potentia investors. A highight of the trip was a visit to the Pritzker Institute of Biomedica Science and Engineering, at Iinois Institute of Technoogy (IIT). The Pritzker is a purpose buit incubator housing mutidiscipinary teams dedicated to the commerciaisation of high end biotechnoogy based research anaogous to CIT s PRTLI5 funded CREATE buiding: an interdiscipinary centre for research into advanced therapeutic engineering. The group aso visited the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospita (formery Cook County Hospita the setting for the teevision series ER!). Whie George Cooney faied to make an appearance, the researchers were treated to a demonstration of the most advanced bio-imaging technoogies currenty appied in medica diagnostics. Since returning from the US, the Bioinformatics Group has continued to make significant strides on a number of fronts. Most recenty, the Group has been nominated for the Research and Innovation Award section of the IT@Cork Leaders awards; in recognition of their work on the BioMapper software patform. The award ceremony, sponsored by IBM, Enterprise Ireand, KPMG, Berkey Recruitment, Worky, Pepsico and Software Skinets, took pace in November and is an important event in the caendar of the ICT community. Ron Mark, CIO, Cook County Hospita with Dr Roy Seator and Dr Pau Wash. Dr Roy Seator and Dr Pau Wash visiting the Iinois Technoogy Association headquarters. Furthermore, Bioinformatics Group member Dr Pau Wash recenty competed an Enterprise Ireand sponsored software project for food safety when he impemented a aboratory information management system (LIMS) that is now in use across mutipe food processing pants for food giant Ganbia. The software is a mutiuser web appication that aows for food safety technicians to test and og food sampes in a centraised system. A sampe data is stored in a secure and compiant system that ensures that a data is traceabe and auditabe by the use of eectronic signatures. Company Director Kevin Kenny noted that CIT provided invauabe consutancy on the deveopment of a aboratory information management software system for one of our eading customers. Pau payed a eading roe in architecting, designing and deivering the software within very tight deadines. 14

15 Interdiscipinary New Product Deveopment Modue begins The Schoo of Business and Schoo of Engineering are co-operating in deivering a new modue tited Interdiscipinary New Product Deveopment (MGMT 8026). The new modue was designed to run in parae with Innovative Product Deveopment Labs (MECH 8009), the modue taken by third year Mechanica/Biomedica/ Product Design Engineers. The aim is to bring business and accounting students through an action earning project in which teams made up of engineering and business students coaborate in deveoping an innovative product, estimate its commercia potentia and pan for its expoitation. Each new product team has a mix of engineering students and accounting, management and marketing students. The students share workshops on idea generation, team working and project management. The engineers, iaising on a continua basis with the business students, take responsibiity for design and manufacturing issues. Business and accounting students investigate market potentia, sources of finance and prepare a business pan in conjunction with their engineering team members. Engineering students have ectures and abs on product design, manufacturing and safety issues, whie business and accounting students have ectures and workshops on new product deveopment, marketing, costing and business panning. Student team members meet outside cass time each week to work together on deveoping the product, and they are encouraged to give responsibiity for sub tasks to team members. In previous years, CIT engineering and business students have had great success in Enterprise competitions, gaining prizes in the Enterprise Ireand student awards and winning the Nationa first prize recenty. Whie business students have contributed to business aspects of the innovative products heretofore, the new modue Interdiscipinary New Product Deveopment is the first time business students have their contribution to new product deveopment schedued as part of their course, and they wi gain 5 ECTS credits for competing the modue. The modues are examined by continuous assessment, where student teams give presentations on progress or hand up reports on particuar aspects of the innovative product or pans for its expoitation. The Modue is innovative in two ways. Firsty, the aim is to deveop an innovative product, which can be successfu and fi a market need. Secondy, the interdiscipinary nature of the modue is innovative. For the first time, students from different Schoos in CIT share in the process of deveoping and panning for the commerciaisation of a new product, whie business and accounting students receive academic credit for their roe in panning and deveoping the product. Some casses, assessments and feedback sessions are hed jointy, and some of the course is given to business students separate from engineer students. The interdiscipinary team aspect of the modue mirrors the practice in many companies, where a team drawn from different functions across a company coaborate in deveoping a new product. The mutidiscipinary nature of the product teams requires students to deveop interpersona skis and team working skis, which are essentia in the workpace. Interim and fina presentations of the new product pans give students experience of pitching their ideas to a pane of assessors, which is good practice for seeking to persuade a bank or venture capitaist post graduation. The modue was deveoped in CIT in association with the ACE Initiative. ACE (Acceerating Campus Entrepreneurship) is a coaborative project funded by SIF to foster the deveopment of enterprise teaching and approaches in HEIs. Another initiative of ACE is the appointment of Enterprise interns on campus. Nicoa Wash BBus, and Johnny Sheehy BEng, are the current enterprise interns in CIT, with the mission of raising awareness of enterprise and entrepreneurship among the student popuation. Products that emerge from the interdiscipinary teams wi enter the CIT Entrepreneurship competition and the Enterprise Ireand Student enterprise Awards. Next semester, as engineer members of the teams buid a prototype of the innovative product in modue MECH8010, business and accounting members wi work to optimise the business pans, and progress other practica steps towards commerciaising the new product in modue MGMT8028. Business/accounting and mechanica/biomedica engineering students on New Product Deveopment teams and ecturers visit CIT s Nimbus and Rubicon enterprise centre 15

16 Masters Programme Two of Cork s most prestigious institutions have come together to enhance the visitor experience at one of Ireand s most popuar tourist and eisure attractions. The research was carried out on a aspects of Fota Widife Park and the findings, which have aready been presented to the Board of Governors at Fota Widife Park, are being regarded as extremey vauabe in the on-going deveopment of this superb amenity which is currenty undergoing a 4 miion re-structuring of its entrance paza and educationa centre, with severa new exhibits being prepared incuding an exciting Macaque experience. This extensive research is one of a range of research projects being conducted each year as part of the Masters Programme at the Department of Continuing Education. Dr Angea Wright, research supervisor, states that the contribution of such comprehensive research is the ife bood of current market activity and shoud not be under estimated, providing oca industries and interest groups as diverse as the GAA and the Hote industry with vauabe research materia from some of the best young marketing brains in the country, many of whom have returned to education whie hoding down top-eve positions in a wide variety of commercia enterprises. conducts vauabe research for Fota Widife Park Pau Mahony, Head, Department of Continuing Education, says The research at Fota Widife Park was an enriching chaenge which wi pay dividends for both management and visitor aike. This research has been made avaiabe to the pubic since the inception of this successfu taught Masters Programme three years ago and has been attracting attention at conferences throughout the word, in Government Departments, and some research has aready been pubished in book form by eading pubishing houses. Pau Mahony says he is quiety proud of the amount and quaity of the research being produced and he is especiay conscious of the need for educationa institutions ike CIT to activey engage with Ireand s business communities, particuary in the difficut trading conditions at present times. Whie being academic and inteectuay skied and chaenging, our taught Masters Programme aims to be practica and extremey rea we reish opportunities where the theory is tested so that we can refine the science of education to meet the needs of the day. Barry Murphy, Chairman, Board of Governors, Fota Widife Park presented the Kingsey Hote Perpetua Trophy to the winning group of researchers. Front row: Dr Angea Wright with Catherine Murphy; Ann Geraghty; Coette O Connor; and Deirdre Donovan. Back row: Damien Courtney, Head, Facuty of Business and Humanities; John Meyer; Pau Mahony, Head, Department of Continuing Education; and Gerard O Donovan, Head, Schoo of Business; at Fota Widife Park to ceebrate the MBS Taught Master s Programme s Visitor Experience research. Panning our Future: 9 Irish Companies attend Industry Open Day event in the TEC Centre 16 On the 21st May, the TEC (Technoogies for Embedded Computing) Centre hosted its first Industry Open Day. Nine Irish companies attended and represented a cross-section of TEC Centre cients, ranging from sma start-ups and indigenous SMEs through to mutinationa companies. Severa Enterprise Ireand staff aso attended in addition to the CIT Technoogy Transfer Office. The TEC Centre, based in the NIMBUS Centre, is funded by Enterprise Ireand as part of the ARE (Appied Research Enhancement) programme and is the primary industry interface of the Nimbus Centre. The Centre s main objective is to create a one-stop-faciity for Industry R&D support in the region. This is being achieved by communicating state-of-the-art in research to industry, creating partnership activities, engaging researchers in industry reevant initiatives and providing effective prototyping faciities. The main areas of interest incude wireess systems, wireess sensor networks, miniaturised hardware, software deveopment and inteigent user interfaces The Industry Open day focused on deveoping an industry reevant appied research strategy for the TEC Centre over the period Companies were aso invited to provide feedback on the operationa performance of the TEC Centre, the strategic focus of the Centre, the extent of industria coaborations and its impact on industry and emerging market opportunities for companies. The Open Day aso featured an extensive poster session and demonstrations of active research projects underway in the Centre. The Open day was viewed very positivey by a participants as a means of faciitating an industry-ed strategy for the Centre, offering a deeper understanding of the capabiities of the Centre and promoting the continuing interaction between industry and appied research teams

17 New Book: Management in the Buit Environment in Ireand Management in the Buit Environment in Ireand, a new book written by Dr Margaret Linehan (CIT), and Pau Greaney and Ede Foster (LIT) was recenty pubished by Gi & Macmian. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts, principes and practices of Management as appied to the Buit Environment in Ireand. The pubication presents study topics reevant to the Irish buit environment, incuding: panning, controing, decision making, organising, eadership, motivation, communication, human resource management, and strategic management. Current management issues, incuding the decine in the construction sector, the roe of ethics and socia responsibiity for organisations in the buit environment, barriers to women s participation in the construction sector, diversity in the workpace, the government s capita works management framework in the management of pubic capita projects, and managing during an economic downturn are discussed. Managing business in an economic downturn, a case study of CRH pc is incuded. This case iustrates how CRH manages suppiers, finances, and peope since the economic downturn. Lessons earned from CRH incude working under tighter financia constraints and succession panning. In reation to managing the future, CRH anaysed a aspects of business, eading to cost reduction and cash generation measures being put in pace to dea with varying trading circumstances as they evove. Written in a cear, accessibe, and structured way to promote sef-earning, each of the ten chapters contains earning outcomes and review questions. Key definitions and important terms and concepts are aso highighted throughout. This book is suitabe for undergraduates in buiding, civi engineering, construction management, quantity surveying, buiding surveying and architectura courses. It is aso suitabe for buit environment professionas preparing for fu chartered status of a professiona institute where knowedge of management practice is a requirement of membership. Search for Next Generation of Irish Innovators The fifth annua Newstak FM Student Enterprise Competition, in association with The Irish Times, was aunched on the 12th October. The competition is designed to deveop an understanding of business management and promote eary-stage entrepreneurship among third eve students. Using a case study format, the competition encourages participants to research companies and, as part of a team, devise soutions to rea ife business scenarios. The overa prize for the winning team, and its team coach, is a study trip to the Caribbean where they wi shadow senior executives in eading teecommunications company, Digice Group. The competition is excusivey open to students based in Ireand s 15 Institutes of Technoogy and Nationa Coege of Ireand. A record 1,400 students, representing 350 teams, entered the Newstak fm Student Enterprise Competition ast year. Commenting on the aunch of the competition, Mr Denis O Brien, competition Chairperson, said: The Newstak Student Enterprise Competition has grown significanty since its inception in With Ireand experiencing an extensive period of economic difficuty, today s third eve students wi pay a pivota roe in Ireand s return to growth. Many of these students wi go on to estabish businesses that wi provide vita empoyment and support oca commerce. During the preiminary stage of the competition, teams must submit written proposas to their oca co-ordinator for the first round, which wi be judged by their coeges. The top four entries from each coege wi then be given a second case study on which they present their submission to a oca judging committee. Each of the 16 judging committees wi consist of top oca business and media representatives. The winning team from each coege wi receive prize money aong with accommodation and hospitaity in Tipperary for the Nationa Semi-Fina and Fina in February For further information and to enter the 2010/2011 Newstak fm Student Enterprise Competition, og on to It is essentia that we equip these students with as much business knowedge as possibe to achieve their fu potentia. This competition instis a sense of entrepreneurship in students and the case study format provides them with a patform to appy the knowedge which they have gained through their studies, Mr O Brien concuded. Pictured at the aunch of the 2010/2011 Newstak FM Student Enterprise Competition are (L - R) Don Crowey, Acting Head, Department of Accounting & Information Systems, CIT; Mary Sherry, Competition Manager, Newstak FM Student Enterprise Competition; Bobby Kerr, RTE s Dragon s Den & Chairman, Insomnia Coffee Co; and Lisa Scanne, Department of Management and Marketing, CIT. 17

18 Annua Conferrings 2010 Aishing Quinan received a BBus in Recreation & Leisure Management and Sarah Fennessy received a BA in Eary Chidhood Care and Education. Fiona Hyand and Dara O Suivan received a BA in Socia Care. Dadeou Odugbose with his mother Peju. Dadeou received a BSc Information Technoogy Support. Deirdre Mangan and Denise Haran both received a Masters in Pubic Reations. Hockey payers Ciodhna Sargent received a BBus (Honours); and John Hobbs was awarded a PhD in Business. Dr Barry O Connor, Registrar and Vice President for Academic Affairs, CIT, with Etaoin OhAipín, who received a Bacheor of Business (Honours) and her brother Seán Óg. Michee Meia O Suivan received a BA in Counseing; with Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT. Michae Tobin received a BSc in Agricuture and Jane O Keeffe received a BBus in Accounting. David Duggan and Ian Whitford received a BBus (Honours) in Accounting. 18 Richard Cronin and Camia Bastabe received a BBus (Honours) in Marketing. Anthony Kenny and Mark Goden both received a BBus in Management. A from Kiarney, Patrick O Suivan, BSc (Honours) Quantity Surveying; Aoife Cronin, BSc (Honours) Biomedica Science; and Coin Moynihan, BSc (Honours) Quantity Surveying.

19 Sarah Browne, Brenda Donovan, and Caire Egan received a BEng in Civi Engineering. BSc in Anaytica & Pharmaceutica Chemistry: David O Brien, Aex Petrogai, Adeine Robiard, Audrey Vizzini, Cedric Pemoine, Marion Geneot, and Marie Cheier. Edward Forrista and James Dowda both received a BEng Mechanica Engineering. Nicoa Deaney, BSc in Appied Biosciences with Biotechnoogy; Aising O Connor, BSc in Food & Heath Science; Aison Wash, Appied Biosciences with Biotechnoogy; and Niamh Tayor, BSc in Food & Heath Science. Juiann Seery and Denise O Caaghan received a BEng in Chemica & Process Engineering. Seán Quinan with his daughter Isabee. Seán received a BSc in Construction Management. Jennifer Meade and Danie O Suivan received a BEng in Structura Engineering. Kevin Niesen, Fadie Sakka and Derek O Brien received a BSc (Honours) in Process Pant Technoogy. Jennifer Dynan, Ciara O Caaghan, and Laura Burke, received a BSc (Honours) in Architecture. Richard Fenton and Aana Straub received a BSc (Honours) in Architecture, with Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; and Dr Michae Murphy, President, UCC; at the first conferring of a joint CIT/UCC Architecture degree. Laura Haney and Ora Maher received a BSc (Honours) in Architecture. Care McAvoy and Giian Hoare received a BSc Biomedica Science. 19

20 CIT Bended Tuition Courses for CIMA Business graduates can now access the internationay recognised Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) accredited courses under an initiative between CIT s Schoo of Business and CIMA. Under the initiative, CIT offers bended tuition to business students and managers studying for the CIMA Dipoma in Management Accounting. The CIMA bended tuition courses maximise the earning experience by faciitating distance earning with direct oneto-one onine support from ecturers as we as a face-to-face ecture programme at the Institute. The six modues offered cover Enterprise Operations, Performance Operations, Financia Operations, Enterprise, Strategy, Performance Strategy and Financia Strategy, each of which is avaiabe through CIT in two week tranches. There are approximatey 15 students taking these subjects this year at CIT. CIMA members are quaified Chartered Management Accountants who appy their business skis in many different areas and industry sectors. Typicay, CIMA members go on to achieve senior positions as strategic managers in pubic and private sector organisations. The CIMA quaification is internationay recognised and provides job mobiity with members working in 165 countries across the gobe. Locay, the Cork and Kerry branch are very active and have unique ties with CIT. Six members of the executive committee are former CIT students. The photograph on the right shows members of the oca branch, staff at CIT and CIMA Dubin at a recent members support event hosted jointy by CIT s Schoo of Business and CIMA Cork and Kerry. On the evening, Cancy Perins from the education unit in CIMA London provided tips on Passing First Time. Cancy is activey invoved in roing out the Bended Learning initiative in Ireand and has made Cork his second home in recent months. Sheia Lewis, CIMA Cork and Kerry Chairperson, deivered some interesting insights into the earning options avaiabe to Cork students. The bended earning courses wi be open to business managers and graduates of the Institute and surrounding business schoos. Students interested in earning more about the courses shoud contact Ruth Vance, CIT at E: ruth.vance@cit.ie or T: or CIMA s Dubin Office at E: dubin@cimagoba.com or T: Don Crowey, Acting Head, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, CIT; Sheia Lewis, President, Cork & Kerry CIMA; Cancy Peiris, CIMA Education UK; Karen Smith, Business Deveopment, CIMA; Gerard O Donovan, Head, Schoo of Business, CIT; Ruth Vance, Lecturer, CIT; and Fiona Arnod, Student Recruitment Manager, CIMA; at the CIT/Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) event hed in CIT. Master of Business Graduate Event On the 26th October, students from the Master of Business cass 2009/2010 gathered to earn from an experienced pane, the issues that are reevant in CV preparation, Interview Techniques, Networking and ooking at sef empoyment and other opportunities in the current economic cimate. Morgan McKiney reviewed students CV s in advance of the event and gave them feedback on the night. Each of the pane members gave a forma presentation and advice on the common mistakes made by graduates when searching for empoyment, at the interview stage and negotiating fina contracts. A reception was hed in the Bistro afterwards where students and staff continued with questions and discussion with the pane in an informa setting. Catherine Garrett, Goba HR Project Manager, Citco Banking Division; Vincent Scanon, Founder Director at B2B Signs & B2B Print; and Laura Witshire and Paddy Fitzgerad of Morgan McKiney Recruitment (Formery Premier Recruitment). Godstar Approved Educator Status by the ICPA On the 9th October, an awards ceremony was hed by the Institute of Certified Pubic Accountants in Ireand (ICPA). Pictured on the eft is the Director of Education and Training, ICPA, Pau Heaney, with CIT staff members Bernard Vaey CPA Lecturer and Examiner, and Ann Marie Twomey Lecturer and Course Co-ordinator for CPA. Pau presented the Godstar Approved Educator Status by the ICPA to CIT in recognition of exceence in Accountancy Education Study Support and Faciities. 20

21 The Food Link Project CIT students were among 21 students from the EU to avai of the opportunity to trave to Canada for a semester to carry out the work pacement eement of their course. The Food Link project was designed to provide undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to trave internationay and receive education from an internationa perspective in the area of Food Science and Technoogy. The six partner coeges invoved in the project committed to engage industry to support the project by accepting exchange students for an internship or work pacement. The partner coeges aso committed to incude students in research projects at their own respective research centres, with students receiving fu credit for these pacements at their respective home institutions. A students received a whoe new education perspective in addition to being immersed in a new cuture. Facuty exchange opportunities were aso avaiabe to partner coeges. Structured exchanges for speciaist teaching staff and administrators contributed in a significant way to the advancement of other objectives of the project, particuary curricua deveopment, student mobiity assessment and course evauation methodoogy. As an addition to the programme, partners coaborated on deveoping curricua drawn from each institute to provide training in both cassroom and web-based deivery formats to internationa cientee. Mutiatera co-operation in this highy focused area of higher education and research provided considerabe added vaue for each of the participating coeges and support organisations. The project wi continue to operate through the on-going coaboration of the six partners and other support agencies invoved after the project end date which was September In return, 28 students from the corresponding Canadian coeges studied in one of the three institutions in Europe (CIT, University of Copenhagen and University of Nottingham). Canadian Students get immersed in Irish Cuture Students from the Marine Institute and Dahousie University received Irish dancing essons during their visit to CIT under the Food Link Project. CIT hosted 19 students for a fortnight in Apri Students participated in courses at CIT in the area of Food Science and Technoogy. During their time they aso visited the Od Mideton Distiery, Teagasc and Backrock Caste Observatory. Two students from the Marine Institute continued with their studies at CIT and accepted a work term pacement with Teagasc in Fermoy where they worked under the supervision of Dr John Hannon. Both students embraced their time on this side of the Atantic by visiting a number of European cities at the weekends. Meissa Forde and Giian Reinhard, both students from the Marine Institute, at the Cipper Festiva in Cork. The Food Link Project was funded under EU-Canada programme promotes mutua understanding between the peope of the European Union and Canada incuding broader knowedge of their anguages, cutures and institutions. CIT and the Marine Institute in St. John s sign MOU CIT and the Marine Institute (MI) in St. John s, Newfoundand signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for continued coaboration. In October 2010, Genn Backwood, Director, MI; and Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT, signed an MOU for future partnership between the two coeges. Both institutions wi work together in the areas of student and staff exchanges, work term opportunities for students, joint education and training programmes, coaborative research and deveopment in technoogy transfer and internationa projects. CIT and MI recognise the mutua benefits that are gained through coaborative efforts reated to promoting education, training and appied research. The MOU became effective on the day of signing and wi be vaid for a period of five years. Front Row: Dr Brendan J. Murphy, President, CIT and Genn Backwood, Director, MI Back Row: Carey Bonne, Head, Schoo of Fisheries, MI; Dr Nia Smith, Head of Research, CIT; Dr Barry O Connor, Registrar and VP for Academic Affairs, CIT; Dr Deirdre Giroy, Lecturer, Bioogica Sciences, CIT; Bi Chisett, Director Internationa Affairs, MI; and Conor Mowds, Manager, NMCI Services, NMCI. 21

22 Green Campus CIT eading the way forward Green Campus CIT is making great strides in estabishing a sustainabe campus programme. Student numbers continue to rise and there has been an increase of buidings in use at CIT. The programme is resuting in both economic and environmenta benefits, where spends on eectricity have significanty reduced this year. A new waste management system has been impemented aimed at waste prevention and improved recycing. The CIT Energy Focus aso continues on campus with peope asked to Switch off Pug out eectrica equipment when not in use. Waste Green Campus CIT woud ike to thank everyone with their efforts to separate their waste in the new recycing bins on campus. The Institute is sending ess waste to Landfi (26% ess) and recovery rates have jumped from 28% to 51% so far this year. The Institute has seen a reduction of amost 4% in overa waste generation despite the increase in student numbers on campus. It is definitey moving in the right direction with the new waste management system introduced. Recycing bins have been depoyed across campus. A three bin system is in pace where paper, dry recycabes and genera waste can be separated. Around the canteen areas, a separate food waste bin is aso provided. The bue bin is provided for paper waste (cean paper, magazines, newsprint etc.). The red bin is provided for dry recycabes (pastic bottes, cans, cean tetrapak) and the green fip id bin is provided for genera waste (dirty waste, food wrappers, yoghurt pots etc.). The bue and red bin contents are recyced and the genera waste is sent to andfi. The separate food waste bins are provided for pate scrapings, bread, fruit, confectionary, tea bags etc. This waste is sent for composting. Gass recycing banks are ocated at the stairs in the main Concourse. As part of a food waste reduction programme at the Department of Tourism & Hospitaity Studies, cooked food wi be sod in fuy compostabe packaging. The Department is aso tracking the waste generated from unused food in practica casses and we wi cacuate the overa cost of this incuding disposa costs. Waste Awareness Day The Waste Awareness day, hed on the 12th October, went down a treat. The stand was kept busy with students and staff visiting the stand with questions and comments. 218 entries were received for the competition guess the weight of a bae of cardboard on dispay in the main Concourse. Correct entries were entered into a draw and three ucky winners are isted beow. The weight of the bae of cardboard was 75kg. Water A water usage optimisation pan is currenty being drawn up. Various works have taken pace across campus to hep reduce the water usage. Fow restrictors have been instaed on a the taps in the Tourism & Hospitaity Buiding bringing the fow rates back from 32 iters per minute to an average of 7 iters per minute. This activity aone wi resut in substantia savings in water use. A wateress urina product is on tria in the Tourism & Hospitaity buiding as we as in B bock (B144). An investigation into sensors for urinas is aso being conducted to hep reduce the water usage in urinas. Resource use In 2009, CIT used more than 15,000,000 sheets of paper! So far, this year CIT ooks ike reducing this quantity for Pease remember to ony print what you reay need and aways use both sides of a page. With the introduction of the new bins at CIT and your efforts in segregating your waste, we wi be abe to reduce the quantity of bin bags used at CIT. We are trying to reuse the cean bags from the recycing bins. Pease make sure you do not put any tea/coffee in the recycing bins. Awards CIT has received the God eve Green Hospitaity Award for the Tourism & Hospitaity Department and aso became the very first third eve Institution in Ireand to receive the Green Hospitaity Award for the Canteen. The Bistro wi aso become a Green Hospitaity member this year. CIT was shortisted for the SEAI (Sustainabe Energy Authority Ireand) sustainabe energy awards Green Campus CIT is funded by the EPA under the Ceaner Greener Production Programme (CGPP). 1st prize ( 100) Lisa Gouding 2nd prize ( 50) John Organ 3rd prize ( 50) Nadia Khafi Prizes were sponsored by Greenstar. 22

23 Energy Eectricity usage on campus (on a m 2 basis) has seen a reduction of more than 8.5% per m 2 area. Significant savings on eectricity spends has meant that the first 9 months of 2010 resuted in more than 268,000 savings compared to the same period in CIT s Energy Focus is documenting individua buidings energy usage and aso anaysing sub metre energy usage. The tabe on the right indicates the night time energy usage (kwh) from 5pm unti 9am the next morning from the Student Centre sub metres. IT software tria (Energy WatchIT) to hep reduce energy usage from computers has been instaed in C129 on 22nd October. This software wi enhance automated shutdown, hibernation and seep for PC s at CIT. Reports on savings (both economic and environmenta) wi be documented during the tria. If we are happy with the resuts from the tria, this software wi be depoyed across campus. We hope to make significant savings from this software which wi resut in economic and emission savings for CIT. Night time energy usage for the Student Centre kwh kwh kwh Sub Metre 05/06 0ct 13/14Oct 19/20 Oct Barber Access Gaa Card shop AIB BOI Bistro We done to the barber shop and the card service shop for making great savings over the CIT s Energy Focus: Switch off Pug out. Keep up the good work remember it is not just you who ikes to switch off at night. Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT with Pau Muvaney of ESB Ecars. Eectrica Vehice Point Officia Launch CIT became the very first coege campus to aunch an Eectrica Vehice (EV) point in Ireand on the 18th October. The EV point was formay aunched by Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT and Pau Muvaney of ESB Ecars. Representatives from the Buidings & Estates and Green Campus CIT as we as other interested parties attended the aunch. This is another first for CIT, who continue to ead the way in environmenta management on campus. The EV point is ocated behind the Tourism & Hospitaity buiding on the road to Leisure Word. Eco-eye visit CIT On the 20th October, Duncan Stewart and the Eco-eye crew visited the Bishopstown Campus to discuss the Green Campus CIT project and hear about some of the works carried out by the Cean Technoogy Centre (CTC). The crew was wecomed by Matt Cottere, Head, Schoo of Mechanica and Process Engineering, who represented Dr Brendan Murphy, CIT president. Tadhg Coakey, (CTC) and the Green Campus Faciitator, Dr Mary Purce aso wecomed the crew to CIT. Footage of the new initiative in the Department of Tourism & Hospitaity Studies to reduce food waste and se prepared food on campus was taken as we as the new recycing stations ocated around the campus. The crew was impressed with the works being carried out under the Green Campus Project and both the economic and environmenta savings being made. Tadhg Coakey detaied the many projects undertaken by CTC and their impacts and benefits over the past number of years. For more information Check out for more information and to track its progress. For information or suggestions on Green Campus CIT, pease contact the Green Campus Faciitator by E: mary.purce@cit.ie or T: Tadhg Coakey, CTC; Duncan Stewart, Eco-Eye; Matt Cottere, Head, Schoo of Mechanica and Process Engineering, and Dr Mary Purce, Green Campus Faciitator. 23

24 CIT CANTEEN RECEIVES GREEN HOSPITALITY AWARD The Canteen has been presented with the Green Hospitaity Award (GHA) for its commitment to quaity environmenta management. This is part of the Green Campus programme headed up by Dr Mary Purce, Green Campus Faciitator. CIT has now received two Green Hospitaity Awards this year, with the Department of Tourism & Hospitaity Studies receiving the God award in March. The Green Hospitaity awards are a vountary programme invoving a areas of environmenta management (waste, energy, water, resource use, etc). The Green Hospitaity Award is funded by the EPA under the Nationa Waste Prevention Programme and aso the Department of Environment, Heritage and Loca Government. The Green Hospitaity Award is a Type 1 Eco- Labe as defined by the ISO - Internationa Organisation for Standardisation and are recognised as the most successfu programmes in Europe. James Hogan, (GHA); Geradine O Suivan; Dougas Deane; Maurice Bergin, (GHA); Cormac Sheehan; Gráinne Kenefick; and Ber Bevan. Spit Lighthouse Memoria reconstructed Gerry Horan, Marine Engineering ecturer; David Lynch, Lead Weder and engineering students Robin Lawor, Conor Hurey, Ciaran Harrigan, Daven Gynn, Evan Fox and Tomas Crowey at the NMCI with the repacement mode of the Spit Lighthouse. The origina mode resides in front of the Od Town Ha in Cobh and is a memoria to the Cork Harbour Tragedy of the 12th December, Five men onboard the harbour piot boat ost their ives when their vesse became entanged on the propeers of the arger ship they had come to guide to safety. In recent years, the origina memoria was damaged and the NMCI carried out refurbishment work and constructed a new mode of the ighthouse which was officiay unveied on the 11th December. More NMCI news on page 28. Ground Breaking Astronomy Researchers meet in CIT CIT hosted the summer VERITAS coaboration conference from 28th June - 1st Juy. The VERITAS coaboration is invoved in the fied of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and is comprised of more than 90 scientists from 20 different institutions in the United States, Canada, Germany, Engand and Ireand (CIT, GMIT, NUIG and UCD). VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Teescope Array System) consists of four 12 metre teescopes and is based at the Smithsonian Institution s Whippe observatory in southern Arizona ( These teescopes detect very high energy gamma rays which are generated by the most vioent physica processes in the Universe. This is the most sensitive such detector in the word and in the ast year has made groundbreaking discoveries eading to more than 15 pubications in the scientific iterature, one of the most recent being in the prestigious journa Nature. VERITAS is a mutimiion euro experiment and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nationa Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Natura Sciences and Engineering Research Counci of Canada, the Partice Physics and Astronomy Research Counci of the U.K. and Science Foundation Ireand (through the Research Frontiers Programme). The conference which had 55 deegates, reviewed the most recent discoveries, panned the observation programme for the next year and discussed the impementation of an upgrade to the instrument to keep it at the forefront of ground-based gamma ray astronomy research. The conference dinner was hed at the Caste Bar and Trattoria at CIT s Backrock Caste Observatory. Dr Josh Reynods, Department of Appied Physics and Instrumentation and the Optica and Instrumentation Group at Backrock Caste Observatory, is an active member of the VERITAS coaboration and one of the Coaborator representatives on VERITAS Executive Committee. Josh was responsibe for organising this year s coaboration conference in Cork. 24

25 CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News Cean Technoogy Centre News CTC has been very busy from June December 2010, with many new and ongoing projects, both nationa and internationa. Here are just a few snippets: European Energy Saving Awards CTC and CIT hosted the Irish round of the European Energy Saving Awards, which were presented by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O Keeffe, T.D., in the Tourism and Hospitaity Buiding in October. The Bord Gáis sponsored awards are part of the Inteigent Use of Energy at Schoo initiative (IUSES). The Cean Technoogy Centre coordinates the competition for Ireand under the Inteigent Energy Europe Programme, in association with Sustainabe Energy Europe. Dr Brendan Murphy, President of CIT, wecomed the nine prize-winners and their teachers from seven winning second eve schoos throughout Ireand, as we as many dignitaries, CIT staff and Governors, and invited guests from the areas of education and energy. The European Energy Saving Award (EESA) is part of the IUSES project, and recognises schoos and students who are enthusiastic and active in bringing about reduced energy consumption and can demonstrate how simpe changes can make a difference. The Award comprised three categories: Schoos; Individua or Groups of Students; and Videos/ Mutimedia (individua and/or group). In a, nine prizes were awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd pacing in each category. In an exceent and very competitive contest, the students and schoos in each grouping showed great understanding and knowedge of energy issues in their schoos and homes and have achieved impressive energy savings through a wide range of whoehearted activities. The winning Irish entries then went forward to compete in the European Awards competition, the winners of which were awarded in Trieste Itay in November The winners in each category for Ireand were: EESA Award winners with Minister O Keefe and CTC Staff: Coman McCarthy, Noe Duffy and Tadhg Coakey. Speakers at the event, from eft: Lord Mayor of Cork City, Councior Michae O Conne; Noe Duffy, Director, CTC; Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; John Muins, CEO, Bord Gáis; Batt O Keeffe, TD Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation; Cr Jim Day, Mayor of the County of Cork. Schoos Category: Scoi Mhuire gan Smá, Barney, Co. Cork. Students Category: The students of St. Patrick s Coege, (Lacken Cross, Kiaa, Co. Mayo). Mutimedia Category: Karimah Gambo (St. Joseph s Coege, Lucan, Co. Dubin). For further detais of the IUSES project go to For further information about the Irish impementation of IUSES, and detais of the other winners, go to John Muins, CEO, Bord Gáis with Maireád Jones of Scoi Mhuire gan Smá, Barney, who won first prize in the Schoos Category. 25

26 CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News Irish Schoos Entry wins European Award In a further success for the IUSES project impementation in Ireand, CTC was deighted to earn that the Irish entry in the EESA Mutimedia Category, by Karimah Gambo from St. Joseph s Coege Lucan, won the outright European Award, beating off stiff opposition from 13 other countries. Karimah s entry, a music rap video, caed I Can, was very we received by the judges from the 14 countries participating. I Can is a catchy song and the video shows and expains in simpe but memorabe ways that energy can be conserved by kids and aduts in their homes, schoos, workpaces and when traveing. It is especiay engaging for the younger generation, using great rhymes and rhythms, and pop up images on the screen. In winning this European Award, Karimah has shown great understanding of the main energy issues and concerns facing us today. Her taent in providing musica, memorabe and easiy understandabe ways of energy savings and more sustainabe behaviour was the main reason for her great success. Poster of rap video I Can, by Karimah Gambo To see and hear Karimah s winning entry go to Karimah Gambo, Mutimedia Category EESA Irish and European Award winner from St. Josephs Coege, Lucan, receiving her Nationa Award from Minister O Keefe. CTC Continues to Promotes Food Waste Prevention As part of CTC s ongoing STOPfoodwaste programme, Mr Batt O Keeffe, TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, officiay opened another Master Composter Site in Maow, Co. Cork in September The opening aso marks the graduation of 31 Master Composter vounteers who are now avaiabe to present taks and host information stands at events around Co. Cork. This is one of severa sites aready deveoped or underway across the country being run by oca Master Composters as part of a nationa CTC ed programme. The piot of this initiative was hed in Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon throughout the month of October 2009 where thirty members from oca communities became Ireand s first master composters. Since then, the programme has gone from strength to strength. Master composters are individuas who have committed some of their time to promoting food waste prevention and composting throughout their oca communities. For further information about the Stopfoodwaste programme and master composters go to In another reated initiative, CTC (with partners Composting & Recycing Consutants Ireand, the Irish Peatand Conservation Counci (IPCC) and Waste Down Consutants) has co-produced a househod composting guide that provides an overview of a aspects of home composting. To downoad the composting guide, go to or 26

27 CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC Produces Greening Events Guide CTC, with Hospitaity Soutions Consuting (HSC), has prepared A Guide to Running Green Meetings and Events for Fáite Ireand. The comprehensive and attractivey produced 52 page guide is intended for any business invoved in panning and/or running a meeting, conference or event in Ireand, incuding conference organisers, venues (incuding hotes), accommodation providers, catering companies, entertainment/activity providers, audio visua/it companies, and transport providers. It provides a simpe step-by-step approach to conference organisers, venues (incuding hotes), accommodation providers, catering companies, entertainment/activity providers, audio visua/it companies, and transport providers in order to green their businesses. This guide wi greaty enhance the opportunities and supports for sustainabe event deveopment in Ireand both for environmentay focused Irish companies and to attract sustainabiity oriented organisations wordwide to come to Ireand and host their events with minimum environmenta impact. To downoad the guide, go to Major Nationa Heathcare Programme CTC Heps to Green the Wexford Festiva Opera 2010 CTC is eading a prevention team to work directy with heathcare organisations in the appication of prevention toos and techniques deveoped in the course of previous projects. The Green Heathcare Programme, is a major nationa initiative, and wi, in time, greaty enhance the environmenta performance of this sector. Initiay, three hospitas in Cork were incuded as part of a piot study in In the first instance, it was important to engage with hospita management and staff to ensure buy in to the project. This incuded reviewing with them the significant amount of work aready done on energy and water surveys. Separate methodoogies were then deveoped to undertake food waste, cinica waste and mixed residua waste characterisation surveys as we as for water fow surveys. Since competing the piot, in 2010 nine more hospitas have enabed waste surveys to be competed across the country. Between the piot phase and the surveys noted above, amost four thousand bed capacity wi have been covered (25% of tota nationa capacity). This wi rise to 36% of tota when surveys are competed on a further five hospitas who have vounteered for the project. This wi bring to 17 the number of hospitas engaged in the first year of the project. The Cean Technoogy Centre, through the Green Hospitaity Programme, has partnered with Wexford Festiva Opera in taking the 2010 Festiva green. Businesses such as: hotes, restaurants, pubs, guesthouses, B&B s, contract caterers, tourist attractions, activities, cubs, gof cubs, eisure centres and spas were encouraged to put environmenta issues at the heart of their services. As a resut of the initiative, 16 Wexford businesses were certified green at an awards ceremony at the Wexford Opera House in October The 16 premises have met with environmenta standards set down by the CTC ed Green Hospitaity Programme (GHP) and concertive and are eading the way to making Wexford a green destination for visitors and business. Exampes of exceent savings - both monetary and resource efficiency - incude the Riverbank Hote which has cut it its water bi by 35,000 per annum through eak detection and improved water efficiency and the Madron Hote, Wexford, which has taken measures to cut its waste bi by 50% and has recenty reduced water consumption by 40%. Funded by the Environmenta Protection Agency s (EPA) Nationa Waste Prevention Programme, the project has proven extremey successfu to-date, with more than 30 businesses around Co. Wexford signed up to the Green Aware programme. To earn more about Green Wexford Festiva Opera 2010 to go to continued on page 62 The resuts of these surveys are being anaysed at time of writing but again show great promise to make substantia resource and financia savings. Benchmarks on waste, water and energy consumption per hospita bed capacity wi emerge in time from these surveys. This in turn wi enabe any heathcare organisation to check their resource efficiency performance against nationa and internationa norms. Based on experience gained during the project, a resource efficiency tookit is being deveoped to incude: training materias, information bookets/eafets, PowerPoint sides, posters and a DVD. Presentation of Green Award to Riverside Hote Wexford as part of the Greening of Wexford Festiva Opera. From eft: Eamonn Carro, Wexford Festiva Opera; Dr Gerry Byrne, EPA; Com Campbe and Jeannette Hayden, Riverside Hote; and James Hogan, Cean Technoogy Centre. 27

28 NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News Photo Gaery On the 25th Apri, the Nationa Fire and Rescue competition was hed in NMCI. Teams were sponsored and the funds raised went to a charity for rebuiding in Haiti. The NMCI team won the competition. Congratuations to Bi Kavanagh who was eected as President of the Irish Institute of Master Mariners at their AGM hed in the Port of Cork boardroom on the 6th November. (L - R) Out-going President, Michae McCarthy, Commercia Manager for the Port of Cork Company handing the chain of office to Bi Kavanagh. In the centre of the photo is Michee Deaney, (Captain), BSc (Hons) in Nautica Science; (L R) Nathan Kirwan, BEng in Marine & Pant Engineering; Hannah Logan, BSc (Hons) in Nautica Science; Pau Cunningham and Tyrone Dwyer, Chief Mate/Masters professiona quaification. On the top of the cake is Engineering ecturer Gerry Horan. The NMCI s saiing cub house being deivered and ifted into pace. In the photo are Ronan Kenny, student representative, and Noe Barry, Acting Head of Academic Studies, NMCI, who has been very supportive of the saiing cub s activities. On the 28th May, a group of four piots from Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia competed their training in the 360º Bridge Simuator. The piots were deayed coming to Ireand because of the ash coud. Aso incuded in the photograph are the ecturers invoved in this training course; Eamonn Doye, Dáire Brunicardi, Roddy Cooke, and Peter Water. Father and son, John and Jamie Ratciffe, are both studying at NMCI at the same time. Jamie has just started to foow in his Dad s footsteps starting in Year 1 on the BSc in Nautica Science and wi become a deck officer in the Merchant Navy. His Dad, John, is attending the Department of Transport Marine Notice 15 course which wi ead to quaification as a Chief Mate/Master on a vesse of ess than 3000 gross tonnage. On the 21st May, a Guard of Honour took pace for the Minister for Defence, Mr Tony Kieen, who visited the NMCI to acquaint himsef with the Nava training conducted at the coege. 28

29 NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI hosts the Nautica Institute AGM The Nautica Institute is an internationa body promoting the professiona standards of those in charge of seagoing ships of a types, trades and services and the standards of management, reguation and supervision of shipping and marine operations generay. It has word-wide membership with branches in most maritime nations. It aso has NGO status at the Internationa Maritime Organisation, the United Nations secretariat concerned with maritime affairs and internationa reguation for contro and protection of the seas. This year, the Ireand Branch (which incudes Northern Ireand) was requested to host the annua genera meeting of the Institute. This was enthusiasticay agreed to by the branch, particuary as it coincided with the eection of the first Irish president of the Institute, Captain James Robinson, DSM, recenty retired from the Navy. In support of the AGM, a seminar, Goba Standards for Watchkeepers and Bridge Procedures was arranged to discuss navigationa and watch-keeping procedures in modern ships where technoogy is making huge changes in the traditiona ways of conducting ships. This seminar, which took pace over two days at the NMCI, was organised with the intention of gaining the most from the coected wisdom of the assembed deegates; four speakers were arranged, an officer from a major cruise ship company, a nava officer, a harbour piot who aso had much experience in modern sma-crew ships, and a master mariner who had changed careers and now commands airiners. It opened with an address of wecome by Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT, and was foowed by brief wecoming addresses by Captain John Carence, Head, NMCI, and Commander Martin Counihan, Associate Head, NMCI, and Commandant of the Nava Coege. The keynote speakers set the tone and prompted discussions. The assembed company broke up into working groups which duy deivered their findings at a penary session. Thank you to Capt John Carence, Martin Counihan and a the NMCI staff who did Trojan work to make this seminar a great success. NMCI Conferring & Award Ceremony 17th June For the first time in the history of the Nava Service and the Defence Forces, a Leve 7 (NFQ), Ordinary Degree in Leadership, Management & Nava Studies was awarded to 13 Non-Commissioned Officers in recognition of their competion of the NS Senior NCOs Course and anciary Modues. The June graduation ceremony is highy significant in the context of miitary training and education and is the cumination of a five-year intensive project that has secured externa accreditation for the training and education undertaking by a ranks. The Nava Service offers major awards under the Nationa Framework of Quaifications for its training and education programmes. Coum Stack, BA in Leadership, Management & Nava Studies; Catriona Downing, BSc (Hons) in Nautica Science; and Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT. Kenneth Laurence and Maria O Caaghan were awarded a BSc in Nautica Science with Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT. 29

30 NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News NMCI News PO Michae Quinn was awarded a BA in Leadership, Management & Nava Studies; with daughter Caoimhe. Michae Harrington, Eamon Doan and John Nash were awarded a BA in Leadership, Management & Nava Studies. Engineering graduate Fionán Wash receives the Betegeuse award from Michae Kingston (eft) and Mario Minehane (right). Dáire Brunicardi (retired coeague NMCI) receives his parchment, BSc (Honours) in Nautica Science from Dr Brendan Murphy. Student Dubheasa Ní Cionna who is studying BSc in Nautica Science Year 1, is the recipient of the NavCom Award. Dubheasa is pictured here with her father. (L R) Phy Curtis, widow of Don Curtis, presenting student James Cough, BSc in Nautica Science Year 1, with the Don Curtis Memoria trophy; and Michae McCarthy, Commercia Manager, Port of Cork. Viv Gough presents student Coin Harrington the Bernard Toft Compass Award. This is the first time this award has been made. Bernard Toft who ectured for 30 years in CIT/NMCI donated this award on his retirement ast year. Engineering graduate Barry Conwe receives the IMarEst award from Lt. Commander Nick Maone, Irish Nava Service. 30

31 Thinking Outside the Box; Fostering Creativity in the Undergraduate Cassroom This year, Siobhán s work was recognised on a nationa eve when she was shortisted for the Jennifer Burke award of the Irish Learning and Technoogy Association for innovative use of technoogy in teaching. In her presentation Siobhán showcased use of bogging, wikis, podcasting and vodcasting in teaching Biomedica Science students. She aso demonstrated the use of e-portfoios in education practice. Karin Liington, in an Irish Times Technoogy Suppement commented on Siobhán s work: From Cork Institute of Technoogy, Dr Siobhán O Suivan is teaching biomedica science students using an extraordinary range of web 2.0 technoogies. She brings together bogs, wikis, newsetters, e-portfoios and podcasts, and reguary engages with her students through their bogs. A great aspect of this project is that first-year students are supported by second years, whose bogs and digita projects from the previous year hep signpost the way on a compex course. Creativity is often described as thinking outside the box but the term is somewhat amorphous as it is open to severa possibe definitions. Despite a arge body of iterature exporing ideas of creativity and creative thinking aong with associated theories and approaches, reativey itte research describes or measures these concepts. Creative thinking, the abiity to be innovative and the abiity to work as part of a team in the workpace are generic skis which are highy vaued by empoyers. In Biomedica science, graduates often work in state aboratories, research abs or the pharmaceutica industry. An abiity to work as part of a team, execute instructions from a team eader, foow through with activities, meet deadines and communicate we is vita. Athough creativity is regarded as an important empoyabiity ski, it is a quaity which graduates and post graduate students are often perceived as acking. Deveopment of creativity and team buiding exercises are often undermined as they are seen as soft skis, often not taken seriousy and thus often absent from tertiary education. An abiity to encourage creativity in the cassroom is desirabe and is sometimes perceived as bringing students out of themseves and uneashing a hidden taent. This is not an easy task and students may fee inhibited by shyness or peer pressure. The chaenge ies in the deveopment of a cassroom environment which is conducive to encouraging creative thought. Dr Siobhán O Suivan has been deveoping the area of teaching Creativity, Innovation and Teamwork in the undergraduate cassroom. She has presented her work on this area and the use of Web 2.0 toos at severa nationa conferences, the recent NAIRTL conference, The Learning Innovation Network Conference hosted by the IOTI, The Irish Learning and Technoogy Association EdTech (the Irish Learning and Technoogy Conference) conference, ICT in Education as we as two internationa conferences Eduearn (Internationa Conference on Education and New Learning Technoogies) in 2009 and 2010 and INTED (Internationa Technoogy, Education and Deveopment Conference) in 2010 where Siobhán presented a tota of 6 papers on topics ranging from teaching creativity, use of e portfoios in education to the pedagogica significance of bogging. She was recognised as best speaker in three of her presentations in the area of Use of Virtua Learning Environments in Education and Innovative forms of Teaching and Learning. Bogs and newsetters created in this modue have attracted much attention from Career Guidance providers as they showcase the work students are doing in their courses. In their bogs students document the chaenges of working in a team, meeting deadines and foowing through on tasks. Siobhán has just competed a textbook, Exceence in Bioogy (Macmian), geared towards A eve/1st year Bioogy courses. It is due for pubication in Siobhán is a ecturer in Biochemistry in the Department of Bioogica Sciences. She aso has a Dipoma and 1st Cass Honours MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from UCC. She teaches part time with the Teaching and Learning unit in CIT. She aso contributes to the IOTI-ed Fexibe Learning project and the CIT-ed REAP project both of which are funded through the HEA s Strategic Innovation Fund. Siobhán woud ike to acknowedge the continuous support of Dr Hugh McGynn, Michae Loftus and Irene Sheridan for her work in this area. Siobhán was shortisted for the Jennifer Burke award of the Irish Learning and Technoogy Association (ILTA) for innovative use of technoogy in teaching and is pictured here with Morag Munroe, (ILTA); Dr Hugh McGynn, Head, Bioogica Sciences, CIT; and Pau Gormey, ILTA. 31

32 CIT Extends its Internationa Network to Incude Saudi Arabia 32 Foowing its participation in an Enterprise Ireand Trade Mission in eary November 2010, CIT has now been approved by the authorities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to recruit schoarship-funded students from there. The trade mission was ed by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O Keeffe TD, during which he met with the Governor of Saudi Arabia s Technica Vocationa Training Corporation (TVTC), Dr Ai Nasser A Ghafis, in the Saudi capita, Riyadh. Congratuating CIT, Minister O Keeffe said: This agreement wi draw hundreds more Saudi students to Ireand under a we-funded schoarship programme and wi buid on our strong reationship with Saudi Arabia which considers Ireand among a sma number of strategic partners in education. Significanty too, Saudi students coud become new ambassadors for Ireand and choose the country for key investments, originating in the Midde-East North-Africa region, which is our fastest-growing emerging market. Michae Loftus, Head, Facuty of Engineering & Science, said Over the next eight years, the TVTC wants to quadrupe its number of quaified trainers to 40,000 and raise its number of students in technica/vocationa education to 500,000, incuding 100,000 women. CIT is perfecty positioned to make a significant contribution in this context as the quaity of our personne and award-winning approach aign strongy with the current needs of the Saudi economy. The achievement of this recognition is a significant event for CIT as we have sought continuousy to achieve this outcome over the past year. The chief executive of Enterprise Ireand, Frank Ryan, said This announcement testifies to the Saudi Government s satisfaction with the standard and quaity of the education deivered by Irish Institutes of Technoogy. The agreement wi aso provide a boost to the Cork region and the other regiona economies in which the Institutes of Technoogy are based. Internationa education is a sector that offers huge potentia for growing Irish services exports and Saudi Arabia is a key market that we have targeted in recent years. This further strengthens our case as we continue to market Irish higher education abroad, not just in the Midde East but in the US, China and other markets with growth potentia. About 800 Saudis are studying in Ireand and it is estimated they are worth some 20 miion to the economy annuay. CIT was represented on the mission by Michae Loftus, Head, Facuty of Engineering and Science, and John Twohig, Head, Centre of Craft Studies. During the visit, the CIT deegation participated in meetings with representatives of the Ministry of Higher Education, the TVTC, various organisations offering services for oca representation and Saudi Aramco. From the information provided at these meetings, it is evident that the approva gained for CIT during the mission has the potentia to ead to significant opportunities for the Institute over time. Some of the more reevant points noted during the visit are set out beow: Saudi needs to further deveop its own educationa infrastructure as 57% of its popuation (a tota of approx. 25M peope, incuding approx. 7M foreign workers) is under the age of 19; Saudi needs significant numbers of its students and technica trainers to be trained abroad in order to make it more sef-sufficient in this context in the onger term; Saudi wi aso require more internationa providers to operate aspects of its educationa infrastructure (management, quaity and deivery processes in particuar). John Twohig noted that With demand for paces on apprenticeship courses in Ireand projected to reduce significanty over coming years, the achievement of this agreement provides us with the opportunity to buid reationships with organisations in Saudi Arabia that wi have demands in areas in which we are ikey to have capacity. Given the high quaity of our staff and faciities in these areas, we have every chance of attracting a significant number of these students to CIT. India, China and the USA Cair Nadkar, one of CIT s driving forces in the internationaisation arena, noted that This deveopment with Saudi adds to a significant number of positive announcements on the internationaisation front in recent times. Over the past two years, the deveopments summarised beow have a added to CIT s profie in this context: CIT s agreement with the University of Pune (UoP), India, was extended to cover joint PhD supervision and joint deveopment of Taught Masters programmes during the visit of the UoP Vice-Chanceor (September 2010); An agreement was signed with Vishwakarma Institute of Technoogy (VIT), India, to provide a pathway into CIT programmes for VIT students of eectronics and appied physics and instrumentation (September 2010); A MoU was signed with Jawahara Nehru Technoogica University Hyderabad (JNTUH), India, during the visit of the JNTUH Vice-Chanceor aong with a deegation of senior academics, with a view to operating joint Taught Masters programmes in software deveopment and embedded systems (June 2010); A MoU was signed with the Indian Institute of Technoogy, Dehi, with a view to deveoping mutuay beneficia research activity (February 2010); Links have been estabished with a number of Chinese universities and discussions re: the estabishment of pathways into CIT programmes in the area of software deveopment are we advanced; MoUs paving the way for these deveopments were signed with Daian Poytechnic University (June 2010) and with Wuhan University of Science and Technoogy (September 2010); CIT has participated in the Irish Homecoming Study Programme ( organised by Institutes of Technoogy Ireand and aimed at providing cost-effective education for the chidren of the goba Irish diaspora, with the Institute s first student under this programme being recruited recenty; CIT s appication for approva for appicants from the US to be supported through the Federa Aid Programme of the US government is at an advanced stage. Whie many internationa students come to study in CIT, Michae Loftus states that I woud ike to see more CIT students take advantage of our new internationa reationships to study abroad. India and China, in particuar, are major forces in the word today and ikey to be even more significant in the future. Students who gain experience of these cutures and economies at an eary stage in their careers wi ikey have many more options open to them in the future than those who take a ess internationa view of their ives. Frank Ryan, CEO, Enterprise Ireand; Michae Loftus, CIT, Dr Ai Nasser A Ghafis, Governor, TVTC; Minister Batt O Keeffe; and John Twohig, CIT.

33 CIT Breaks New GrounD in India In a major deveopment CIT has engaged with the University of Pune (UoP) to extend significanty the extent of its internationa engagement in India. In a major deveopment CIT has engaged with the University of Pune (UoP) to extend significanty the extent of its internationa engagement in India. A forma agreement has now been signed between CIT and UoP to participate in joint PhD supervision and joint deveopment of programmes, at eves up to, and incuding, taught masters and structured PhD. Michae Loftus, Head, Facuty of Engineering and Science, CIT, commented that The signing of these agreements represents the cumination of the efforts of CIT and UoP, over a number of years, to buid an internationa reationship of strategic vaue to both institutions. This extension of our cooperation provides a patform for our students, staff and industry stakehoders to participate in an initiative, which integrates education, research and innovation in a truy internationa context. India s importance in goba affairs is rising continuousy and CIT s stakehoders now have the opportunity to engage with some of India s eading institutions in a very meaningfu way. This deveopment aigns fuy with the 2006 Ireand-India Government-to-Government Agreement on Scientific and Technoogica Co-operation and the reated 2009 Programme of Cooperation on Science and Technoogy. This initiative has been ed on the Indian side by the Vice- Chanceor of UoP, Dr Raghunath Shevgaonkar, who traveed to visit CIT with Dr Vasudha Garde, Director, Internationa Centre at UoP. As part of an intensive schedue for this visit, Dr Shevgaonkar reviewed at first hand CIT s educationa faciities, research centres, business incubation hub and innovation ecosystem infrastructure. He observed UoP and CIT have compementary strengths in their respective approaches to research, innovation, teaching and earning. Through the extension of our cooperation, we hope to buid an innovation ecosystem that is truy internationa in nature and fuy aigned with the deveopment needs of India and Ireand. Head of Research at CIT, Dr Nia Smith, said UoP is recognised gobay as a eading university. It is we known for its eadership in the internationaisation of education and for its progressive educationa poicies and visionary outook. We are very satisfied with the quaity of our engagement with UoP thus far and we ook forward to creating new opportunities for both CIT and UoP in the future. CIT has continuousy refined its integrated research and innovation strategy over recent years and is now recognised as a eading innovation hub, as evidenced by the internationa innovation and entrepreneurship awards won by its students and the recognition it has been accorded within the EU for its support for high potentia start-up businesses. The signing of these agreements wi add to our capacity to internationaise further what we have aready achieved. The extension of the cooperation was marked by the forma signing of an addendum to the 2008 Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions. The signing ceremony was witnessed by His Exceency P.S. Raghavan, Ambassador of India to Ireand, and Mr Biy Keeher, Minister for Trade and Commerce. Aso in attendance was Mr Prashant Shuka, Chairman of the Ireand India Counci, Mr Brendan O Regan, CEO of Zenith Technoogies (strong supporters of this initiative) and a number of invited guests. The University of Pune has 433 affiiate coeges and more than 300 recognised research institutions under its jurisdiction. The student popuation of the University and affiiate coeges and institutions is around 650,000. The University itsef has ony postgraduate students, numbered at around 5,000. Front row: Dr Raghunath Shevgaonkar, Vice-Chanceor, UoP; Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; signing the addendum to the 2008 MoU between CIT and UoP. Back row: Mr Biy Keeher, Minister for Trade and Commerce; and His Exceency P.S. Raghavan, Ambassador of India to Ireand. 33

34 New Lecturing staff in the Department of Bioogica Sciences Drs Rosemarie Rea and Brigid Lucey Dr Rosemarie Rea joined the ecturing staff in September having transferred from Schering Pough, Brinny. Her main roe for 5 years there was as a technica speciaist, and her responsibiities incuded providing technica support to fermentation, purification and finished product processes, as we as vaidation and maintenance of working ce banks. Apart from her ecturing roe, her main focus wi be to promote the research capabiities of CIT and buid partnerships with industry across the biotechnoogy sector. Dr Rea is a former Bioogy student of CIT, a first cass honours graduate in Biochemistry (UCC) and the recipient of a PhD from the Department of Microbioogy (UCC). Dr Brigid Lucey has a ong and successfu association with the Department of Microbioogy at Cork University Hospita, where she was Head of Moecuar Diagnostics and Research. She has coaborated with CIT and other institutions on a number of research projects and is author of more than 20 scientific papers and book chapters. Her research interests incude many aspects of medica microbioogy and epidemioogy. Additionay, she has ectured part-time on the Biomedica Science course over a number of years, to undergraduates and Master s degree students. Dr Lucey received her FIMLS in 1993 and attained the award of PhD in Congratuations to Dr Sharon Murphy Interdiscipinary Research between the Departments of Manufacturing, Biomedica and Faciities Engineering and Bioogica Sciences; Dr Sharon Murphy, First PhD graduate from Medica Engineering Design and Research Centre (MEDIC). Dr Sharon Murphy received her PhD from the Department of Manufacturing, Biomedica and Faciities Engineering. Sharon is the first PhD graduate from the Department since its formation. She is aso the first PhD graduate from the Medica Engineering Design and Innovation Centre (MEDIC). Congratuations to Sharon and her famiy on a wonderfu achievement. Congratuations aso to her supervisor Dr Danie Boyd (previousy of the Department of Manufacturing, Biomedica and Faciities Engineering, now of Dahousie University, Canada) and to co-supervisors Dr Heen O Shea, Department of Bioogica Sciences and Dr Keith Bryan, Department of Manufacturing, Biomedica and Faciities Engineering. Dr Heen O Shea with Dr Sharon Murphy who was awarded a PhD in Biomedica Engineering & Bioogica Science. (L R) Dr Marine Henry, Dr Pierre Douarre, Dr Jim O Mahony (PhD supervisor), and Dr James Carro who were awarded PhDs from the Department of Bioogica Sciences 34

35 Dr Oivia Cashman s PhD research Oivia, under the guidance of her PhD supervisor Dr Heen O Shea undertook an extensive study of severa important viruses causing Acute Gastroenteritis in humans and animas in Southern Ireand. Dr Oivia Cashman is pictured receiving her parchment with Dr Hugh McGynn, Dr Heen O Shea (supervisor), Dr Brendan Murphy, Dr Barry O Connor, and Michae Loftus. Viruses characterised during this study incuded rotavirus, adenovirus, and the newy identified gastrointestina virus, human bocavirus, which was identified for the first time in Ireand during this study. Oivia aso refined a technique to isoate viruses from foodstuffs using magnetic capture beads on an automated capture system. This technique has the potentia to be very beneficia to the food industry. Summary of Dr Oivia Cashman s PhD Research This study reports the anaysis of severa important viruses causing Acute Gastroenteritis in humans and animas in Southern Ireand. The project invoved a 3 year coection of AGE viruses from hospitas in the Cork and Waterford area and Cork regiona veterinary aboratory (from ). Viruses characterised during this study incuded rotavirus, adenovirus type 41 (Figure 1), and the newy identified gastrointestina virus, human bocavirus, which was identified for the first time in Ireand during this study. Rotaviruses are aso important as regards reassortment between humans and animas, so data on bovines is critica for a better understanding of this compex virus, and wi provide usefu information regarding vaccination. Oivia aso refined a technique to isoate viruses from foodstuffs using magnetic capture beads on an automated capture system [Pathatrix]. This technique has the potentia to be very usefu in the food industry. Euro Vision: Microbes & Money Poor hygiene practice resuts in the transfer of dangerous pathogens to everyday notes and coins, and despite the fact that the euro currency is in existence for over 8 years, no studies have been done on how ong pathogens wi persist on our cash. Second year postgraduate student and BIO-EXPLORE researcher Emma Gabrie recenty received nationa press coverage for her work which uses bio-uminescent technoogy to track the persistence of dangerous microbes on euro notes and coins. The speciay adapted pathogen (which is a cose reative of MRSA) used in the study is designed to gow or uminesce when it is viabe. In simpe terms, this means that if it gows it is dangerous or infectious. Aternativey, when the ight fades the pathogen is no onger viabe. This ights on/ights off method is a cever way to monitor how ong this dangerous organism can survive and has aowed Emma to visuaise and track its persistence on everyday notes and coins over time. aerosoised spray (simiar to a sneeze) ight can be detected up to 3 weeks afterwards which means the bacteria ces are sti viabe and infectious. This means that every hand, cash register, waet or purse which encounters the money within the 3 week period coud act as a further carrier of disease. Bacteria such as the one used in this study can cause reativey trivia conditions such as bois, abscesses or food poisoning ike symptoms. However, in certain instances they can infect the bood stream causing serious, debiitating and in some cases ife threatening conditions such as endocarditis, osteomyeitis and pneumonia. Prevention is key. This study demonstrates visuay and convincingy the need for maintaining and improving good hygiene practices especiay in high risk environments such as hospitas and food estabishments. Effective hand washing and or the use of sanitising ges are becomingy increasingy essentia in hating the spread of pathogenic disease causing bacteria especiay after handing communa items or surfaces. This research study is co-ordinated and managed by Dr Jim O Mahony and Dr Aidan Coffey who are principa investigators at the BIO-EXPLORE research group, CIT. The main remit of the group is to appy their diagnostic expertise to hospita and food borne pathogens. BIO-EXPLORE is aso eading a number of reated programmes which focus on the identification and characterisation of nove bioactive moecues from pants and microbes. For more information contact jim.omahony@cit.ie This research at the Department of Bioogica Sciences is the first time uminescent bacteria have been used in such a study and athough sti ongoing, has produced some interesting resuts. When the uminescent organisms are transferred to the notes and coins using an 35

36 First Entrepreneur in Residence Kieran Moynihan, a dynamic and experienced entrepreneur and executive with an outstanding track record in the technoogy sector, took up the roe as Entrepreneur in Residence ast September and his appointment marks a significant miestone in terms of CIT s Entrepreneurship and Innovation activity and further strengthens CIT s commitment to innovation. Kieran is based at the Rubicon Centre and on the main campus and is avaiabe to undergraduates, post grads, staff and CIT Enterprise Deveopment Programmes. Centra to the roe wi be further raising the awareness of entrepreneurship in genera across CIT; identifying key market and technoogy trends and areas which are receiving substantia investment financing, as we as a series of Guest Lectures to undergraduates. Kieran cofounded Comnite, a teecoms software company in 1999 and ed the company as CEO from initia start-up through a 30miion series of fundraising with eading internationa venture capitaists. After competing the CIT ed Genesis Enterprise Programme in 1999/2000, Comnite merged with Metrica and WatchMark to form Vaent, a 450 person goba company with annua revenues of approximatey $65miion. From , Kieran was Chief Technoogy Officer for Vaent, driving the company s product and market strategy up to the acquisition of the company by IBM in He then took on the roe of Vice President and CTO for Teecoms for the IBM Tivoi division and has aso been a key strategist and visionary for IBM s overa teecoms business wordwide. He has extensive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) experience both on the acquirer and acquired side. Now working as a management consutant speciaising in providing support to eary-stage and mid-size companies in the area of company strategy, go-to-market, fundraising, executive coaching, M&A and exit strategies, Kieran said that he was honoured and excited to take on his new roe to hep driving entrepreneurship at CIT and the broader region. We are at a pivota stage in driving our recovery in Ireand and indigenous start-ups wi be a fundamenta factor of our future success. The everaging by CIT of the entrepreneurship-inresidence mode, which has been highy successfu in the USA, is very compementary to the vision CIT has demonstrated in its partnership with Enterprise Ireand in the highy successfu Genesis start-up programme. I am very passionate about inspiring strong growth in entrepreneurship across the students and staff at CIT. I have a very hands-on approach and want to make this very practica key areas wi be the support of the overa commerciaisation process in CIT incuding reviewing current commerciaisation and patent activity as we as providing a friendy and accessibe sounding board for students and staff to test start-up business ideas. CIT President, Dr Brendan Murphy, warmy wecomed the appointment of Kieran Moynihan as CIT s Entrepreneur in Residence. This appointment underines the commitment of the Institute to encourage the overa eve of entrepreneurship in CIT across students, staff, and our enterprise deveopment programme activity. By embedding a successfu entrepreneur on campus, CIT wi benefit from his knowedge and experience and he wi provide a roe mode for staff and students to start their own businesses. Kieran has had a very impressive career to date he is a dynamic, experienced entrepreneur with an outstanding track record over his 19-year career in technoogy businesses. I know that the wider economy in Cork wi benefit from Kieran s drive and determination to raise the bar in terms of entrepreneurship, both within CIT and in the region generay. We expect him to push the boundaries and chaenge existing thinking in CIT and among companies in the Rubicon Centre. The Cork Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise Ireand and Cork City and County Enterprise Boards have expressed their strong support for this initiative. I know that both Kieran and CIT ook forward to working with them to drive enterprise deveopment in the region. Kieran wi be a huge asset and we are a ooking forward to working with him. CIT has consistenty striven to put entrepreneurship at the forefront through its support for events such as the CIT Prize for Innovation, sponsored by the Cork County and City Enterprise Boards which has a prize fund of 10,000 (see back cover). The Genesis Enterprise Programme, headquartered at the Rubicon Centre within CIT, was runner-up in the Promoting the Entrepreneuria Spirit category in the European Enterprise Awards in Madrid. Now in its fourteenth year, Genesis is a 12 month rapid incubation programme to provide support to entrepreneurs estabishing knowedge based start-ups in the South West region of Ireand through business training, coaching, mentoring, faciities and peer earning. Kieran was presented with the First Genesis Aumni award in 2008 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the programme. Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; Kieran Moynihan, Entrepreneur in Residence, CIT; Caroe O Leary, Industria Liaison Manager, CIT; Ger O Mahoney, President, Cork Chamber; and Michae Deaney, Vice President for Deveopment, CIT. 36

37 Rubicon Expands On 22nd October, the extension to the Rubicon Centre was officiay opened by the Taoiseach Brian Cowen. The extension brings the tota CIT incubation footprint to 3,000m 2. Speaking at the opening the Taoiseach said: It is where peope of enterprise and taent from this city, through graduate programmes coming out of the institutes and universities, are creating the jobs and companies of the future that wi hep this country create jobs and weath again. The Rubicon Centre aready provides incubation space and enterprise deveopment supports to 44 knowedge-based companies empoying 185 peope. Space in the extension has aready been assigned to new entrepreneurs in at east six new start-ups, which wi bring the tota number empoyed at the centre to more than 220. Companies based at the Rubicon work in areas such as ICT, internationa traded services, and new forms of media, energy, environment and biotechnoogy and many are focused on European and US markets. The extension was jointy funded by CIT, Enterprise Ireand and AIB. The Rubicon Centre acts as a hub in the region providing supports to start-up and existing companies who wish to grow, and it is part of an entrepreneuria ecosystem at CIT. This ecosystem incudes the Genesis, Enterprise Start and Discovery Zone programmes which hep entrepreneurs at different stages of their business deveopment from initia business concept to raising venture capita and sae. The use of mentors and the wider business community has aowed the Rubicon to mobiise supports when required. For exampe when companies such as Motoroa, Pfizer, Harris Semiconductor were cosing or downsizing, the Rubicon ran a number of Enterprise Start Programmes that has resuted in many choosing starting a new business over redundancy, unempoyment, or seeking empoyment with another mutinationa. The Rubicon and its cients have benefited from the investment in research in the Institute and in particuar the NIMBUS research centre which is adjacent to the Rubicon and the 3 Appied Research Centres on campus - TEC, CAPPA and MEDIC. Many of the Rubicon cient companies use the resources of these Centres to deveop their products and to provide technica support. Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; An Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD; and the Rubicon team. Michae Deaney, VP for Deveopment, CIT; Batt O Keeffe TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Innovation; Micheá Martin TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs; An Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD; Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; and Cr Michae O Conne, Cork City Lord Mayor; at the officia opening of the Rubicon Centre Extension. Discovery Zone Programme The Discovery Zone is a new initiative in the Rubicon Centre that has recenty seen its first group of participants compete the programme. The programme is designed to assist experienced professionas who may find themseves at a time in their careers where they want to deveop new ideas, start a business or aternativey want to expore ways of using their skis in expoiting other commercia opportunities through partnership with other entrepreneurs or academic institutions. Immersed in this tweve-week programme, participants expored a number of key topics from idea generation to routes to commerciaisation. The programme provided participants with a better understanding and appreciation of a wide range of issues incuding the foowing: How commercia ideas are generated Testing the commercia viabiity of new ideas what are the key assumptions about the idea that need to be tested and verified? Routes to commerciaisation - new start-up, icensing or joint venture? Practica guidance from individuas on how they successfuy change from manager to entrepreneur Going from a good idea to deveoping a worthwhie business opportunity The programme was fu-time over 12 weeks and candidates were seected by means of an interview. The participants were based in the Rubicon Centre where they received guidance individuay and in groups to assist in progressing their ideas. During the 12 week programme the participants competed a feasibiity study on their business idea. The Programme Manager, Joe Keeher, was a resource for the participants to hep them progress their ideas. In addition, participants had access to the expertise of the Rubicon staff, CIT researchers and the CIT Technoogy Transfer Office. Each project was aocated the services of an Enterprise Ireand mentor who provided specific guidance to participants in deveoping their ideas. At the end of the programme each of the participants had to pitch their business idea. This pitch was to the attendees of a coffee morning who attended a fundraiser for the Care & Share charity and was hed in the courtyard between the Rubicon Centre and the NIMBUS research centre. The programme was funded by the Rubicon Centre, Cork County Counci, CIT s REAP Project (SIF) and Enterprise Ireand and the recruitment for a second programme is currenty underway. For further detais pease contact Pau Heay, Rubicon Centre Manger, T: or E: pau.heay@rubiconcentre.ie The discovery programme provided us with many new toos and techniques to hep us evauate whether our ideas coud become commercia businesses without spending ots of money to find out - Bryan Jackson, Discovery Zone Participant. The Discovery programme provided an exceent environment by grouping ike-minded professiona individuas and then providing them with fundamenta toos that enabed them to take ideas positivey aong the path towards commerciaisation - David Buckey, Discovery Zone Participant. Joe Keeher, Programme Manager with the Discovery Zone participants. 37

38 Visit of Eminent Scientist from Rosin Institute, UK Dr Suni Nandi, a Research Scientist at the Division of Deveopmenta Bioogy at the word famous Rosin Institute, visited the aboratory of Dr Heen O Shea in March 24-26, Dr Nandi was very impressed with the Research Group and the faciities in the Department of Bioogica Sciences. His research project invoves investigation of somatic identity in chickens and his group has recenty pubished a ground-breaking paper in Nature. Dr Suni Nandi, Rosin Institute, with Dr Heen O Shea in CIT s Ce Bioogy Laboratory. Careers Fair 2010 The annua Careers Fair, organised by the Careers and Counseing Service took pace on 5th October in the Institute s Nexus Centre. The event featured up to 40 organisations. These incuded major nationa and internationa companies recruiting suitabe graduates and work pacement students. A number of oca firms attended in addition to a number of vounteer organisations seeking to encourage student invovement. Over 1,500 students attended the event, with companies representing sectors such as IT, Science, Engineering, Finance, Retai and Construction. Exhibitors incuded Abbott Ireand, Stryker, KPMG, Novartis, Dairygod, Kingspan and the Defence Forces. The presence of a number of vountary organisations such as Barretstown, The Irish Cancer Society and RehabCare aso broadened the scope of the event for a students. The Careers Fair provided vauabe information about career opportunities after coege to fina year and postgraduate students in particuar. It was a great opportunity for students to speak to empoyers directy and to find out more about empoyment opportunities, appication procedures, cosing dates and interview processes both in Ireand and abroad. Whist the jobs market is certainy contracting, it hasn t disappeared atogether. Companies are sti hiring and graduates are finding jobs. Whie it is more difficut than it used to be, we continuay encourage students to put time and effort into career panning with a view to maximising their chances of success. In the current cimate the Careers Fair reinforced the very positive message for our students that they are highy regarded and sought after within the competitive graduate recruitment arena. Empoyers aso remarked on how focused and prepared students were, having competed research on companies before approaching them on the day and subsequenty asking reevant and specific questions about career opportunities. Companies commended the hospitaity provided by CIT throughout the day and with that, many expressed their desire to return to next year s event. Whie the Careers Fair is organised and run by the staff of the Careers and Counseing Service it woud not be possibe without the assistance and support of severa CIT departments and staff members. It wishes to particuary acknowedge the support from Frank Haney, Student Centre Manager; the IT support staff; Michae Noonan and Wi Hegarty, Buidings & Estates Office; the caretakers; and Geradine O Suivan, Canteen. 38

39 Access Service Events Primary Schoo Summer Programme 250 chidren came to CIT over 5 days to ask questions, see where their sons / daughters may wish to study, meet some of the ecturers, etc. Linking with the parents of young chidren (5th, 6th cass) can sow the seed. Pupis from Hoy Cross Primary, Mahon A joint initiative between CIT Access Service, Junior Achievement and Bank of New York Meon took pace in June. Ten inked Primary schoos participated on the programme. The programme provided 5th and 6th cass students and their parents with an opportunity to visit a third eve campus. For many, this was the first time that these chidren visited a third eve campus. Each student group was given the opportunity to get invoved in hands on activities which aowed them to expand their horizons. The parents aso did the very same activity. Through-out the sessions, the message of the importance of education was embedded. Deirdre Creedon, Access Officer, states that Parenta invovement and support is crucia to the success of students. CIT Access Service, through its inks with the Home Schoo Community Liaison Officers, has been bringing in parents groups to the Bishopstown campus for many years. The visits provided parents with an opportunity The programme was financiay supported by Bank of New York Meon. This is the second Access initiative that Bank of New York has sponsored in CIT. Mr Len Dowing, Vice President, Goba Operations, BNY Meon, expains that BNY responds to the needs of communities by supporting organisations and activities that advance the quaity of ife where our empoyees work, ive and do business. Working with oca groups in our communities is a cornerstone of BNY Meon s phianthropic phiosophy. Working with non-profit partners, oca agencies and our goba corporate neighbours, we invest in initiatives that make our communities better paces to ive and work. The chidren and their parents took part in science and art sessions. Staff from BNY Meon vounteered their time to work with the chidren aso and using materia designed by Junior Achievement, they taked to the chidren about success and their futures. Access Service and the Department of Mathematics join forces! This year, the Access Service and the Department of Mathematics joined forces to coaborate on a coupe of very innovative initiatives. The first was an event to mark Maths Week Ireand. Maths Week Ireand is co-ordinated each year by Camast at Waterford Institute of Technoogy. Maths Week Ireand is a partnership of universities, institutes and groups working together to promote awareness, appreciation and understanding of mathematics to a. Deirdre Creedon, Access Officer and Michae Brennan, CIT Maths Lecturer, organised an event for senior cyce pupis from access inked schoos on the 13th October. Guest Lecturer Francisco Gomez-Martin deivered the foowing ecture. Musica Rhythms and the Greatest Common Divisor In the African and Cuban music traditions, the bembe rhythm is very popuar. It is payed on bes and appears in many styes. On a separate matter, finding the greatest common divisor (g.c.d.) of two numbers is easy. We earnt in primary schoo that it simpy consists of isting the divisors of the two numbers and pick their greatest common divisor. What do the bembe rhythm and the g.c.d. of two numbers have in common? They are reated by Eucid s agorithm, a very od and simpe method to compute the g.c.d. Francisco examined with the participants the detais of that connection, which are deeper than expected. Other connections between Mathematics and Music were aso examined. Foowing the ecture, Dr David Fannery, Head, Department of Mathematics, deivered a fun maths quiz for participants. The young peope oved this interactive session, which expored maths in every day ife. Dr David Fannery, Head, Department of Mathematics; Dr Francisco Gomez-Martin, visiting ecturer; and Deirdre Creedon, Access Officer. 39

40 Maths Preparatory Programme for Mature Students For some mature students, returning to education, they can be a itte daunted by the concept of studying maths. It can be a subject which causes concern, as they may not have studied maths in 10, 20 or even 30 years. Over the summer the Access Service approached the Learning Support Centre to organise a preparatory maths programme for mature students. The aim of the workshop was to give participants a gente introduction to maths prior to the commencement of their programme of study and to take any fear of the subject away. Participants studied Agebra, Statistics and Probabiity, Functions, Trigonometry, and Cacuus. Maretta Brennan, Lecturer, deivered the workshops for the Access Service. Maretta fees that the workshops were of great benefit to the students in that they increased student confidence in preparation for the new academic year, gave students the opportunity to reaise that it is okay to ask for hep, exposed students to the CIT Maths Onine and provided an opportunity to meet mature students registered on the same course. The topics incuded in the workshop were reevant to a vast majority of first year mature students across many discipines - Science, Engineering, Buiding, Architecture, Business, Statistics and Manufacturing. Sinéad O Nei, Mature Student Project Officer with the Access Service and organiser of the event said that the piot was a great success and that the feedback from students was exceent. The coaboration between the Access Service, the Learning Support Centre and the Maths Department was very positive and I hope that this can be further deveoped in the future. Better Options Event 2010 Hosted by UCC, a one day event was hed for students with specific earning difficuties and/or disabiities to access information on higher education in Ireand. Presentations were given on the Disabiity Access Route to Education (DARE) and students highighted their own persona stories of appying to and attending third eve coege. A CIT student spoke about her own persona experiences of what it was ike being a deaf student accessing third eve education and the supports she avais of through the Disabiity Support Service in CIT. Ruth Murphy (Disabiity Faciitation Administrator) and Laura O Rourke (Disabiity Support Officer) both attended the event to provide information on the service in CIT to potentia students. Pathways to Education Tracking Students with Disabiities across Higher Education Institutions and competion of students with disabiities across a number of Higher Education Institutes in any one academic year, in this case the 2005 intake and invoved nine institutions. The data provides an interesting insight into the activity of students with disabiities during their studies at higher eve. Mary O Grady, UCC; Denis Staunton, UCC; Ann Heean, AHEAD; Laura O Rourke, CIT; and Martin Fynn, Pathways to Education Coordinator. Mary O Grady, Disabiity Support Officer and Head of Disabiity Support Service, UCC commented This report wi prove to be a vauabe resource to the educationa sector in addressing the chaenges of increasing the access and participation of students with disabiities and specific earning difficuties in higher education in the future. A unique and interesting report was aunched which was commissioned by Pathways to Education, which is a joint access initiative of CIT and UCC, and funded under the Strategic Innovation Fund Cyce 2. The research was carried out under the guidance and support of the disabiity services in both institutions. The report tited Students with Disabiities Tracking Report 2005 Intake. An anaysis of their progression, retention and success through Higher Education Institutions investigated the access, retention and success rates of students with disabiities across Ireand. It was aunched by Ann Heean, Executive Director, Association of Higher Education Access & Disabiity (AHEAD), who highighted the success of students with disabiities in their third eve studies. The research is the first evidence based research reating to the success, retention Echoing these sentiments, Laura O Rourke, Disabiity Support Officer and Head of Disabiity Support Service, CIT commented that This report aso serves to educate and create awareness amongst academic staff as we as students, and so it is with great peasure that CIT has become a part of this research project and wecomes the findings. For further detais, pease visit 40

41 Access Learning Support Service The Disabiity Support Service is peased to announce that the Access Learning Support Service officiay opened on the 11th October. This service is ony for students who are registered with the Disabiity Support Office in the Access Service (pease see Laura O Rourke, Disabiity Support Officer for detais). The aim of the service is to provide one to one and/or group supports to students with earning difficuties and a range of other disabiities regarding their assignments, reports and research for their course. The tutors in the Access Learning Support Service wi be in a position to assist students to proof read, edit and organise the work they are required to have done for their course. A variety of workshops wi be hed during the academic year for students who are registered with the Disabiity Support Service. For detais of training, seminars and workshops, visit Mature Student Orientation Event The appointment of a fu time Mature Student Officer in September 2009 has aowed for the deveopment of stronger supports for Mature Students at a pre-entry, entry and post entry eve. For the first time this year, two designated Orientation Events were deivered to incoming Mature Students over the period of a week. These programmes aimed to assist Mature Students with the transition into CIT and to prepare them for the academic content of their respective courses. The programmes were specificay targeted at Mature Students entering CIT for the first time. Science for Life Both programmes proved to be very successfu with high participation rates and very positive feedback from students. Over 100 students attended the Orientation Programme and 38 students participated in the Preparatory Maths Programme. It is evident that Orientation Programmes can serve as a foundation for coege success. For students who attend orientation programmes surviving higher education can be a ot easier, and can prevent many potentia probems. Providing such supports to Mature Students wi potentiay have a significant effect on performance eves and retention rates of these students. Science for Life ran two science competitions recenty. These competitions were aimed at junior cyce and senior cyce students. The competition entries entaied an essay of 500 words or more. The junior cyce students topic was A day in the ife of a Scientist.... whie the senior cyce topic was Scientific discoveries that revoutionised modern society.... The successfu senior cyce student won an ipod, whie the successfu junior cyce student won a Nintendo DS. Tim Kerins, Physics teacher, Deerpark CBS; Deerpark Leaving Certificate Physics Students; Dr Sharon Lawton, CIT Science for Life Officer; Bryan Condon, senior cyce competition winner; and Aidan McNay, Principa, Deerpark CBS. Dr Hugh McGynn, Head, Department of Bioogica Science; Liz Horgan, Science teacher, St Patrick s Coege; Sara Nierodzik, junior cyce winner, St Patrick s Coege; Megan O Donovan, junior cyce runner up, St Patrick s Coege; and Aieen Courtney, Science teacher, St Patrick s Coege. 41

42 NEWS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICE Erasmus Exchange Programme 2010 In September 2010, over 140 incoming Erasmus students from France, Germany, Spain (incuding Tenerife), Itay, Czech Repubic, Netherands, Greece, Begium, Finand, Poand and Sweden, were wecomed to CIT. Induction meetings were organised by the Internationa Affairs Office for the 9th and 10th September, and the students aso attended an orientation session organised by the CIT Access Office during the first week of term. CIT received over 130,000 in Erasmus mobiity funding from the Irish Nationa Agency for Erasmus, (HEA) to faciitate student and staff Erasmus exchanges and pacements for the academic year Some 70 students are expected to study or carry out a period of their work pacement abroad this year, as we as 23 of the Institute s ecturing and non-teaching staff. The students wi receive ECTS credits for the successfu competion of their Erasmus study or pacement periods. Students at a eves, bacheor degree, honours degree, Master s and PhD are eigibe to participate in the Erasmus programme. Currenty, CIT has over 80 exchange agreements with partner institutions in other European countries. A new deveopment in the Erasmus programme starting in the current academic year is the extension of Erasmus participation eigibiity to students who are fu-time registered students at partner institutions, but who were born outside of the EU. This wi mean that a students currenty registered in a fu-time course at CIT can appy for an Erasmus funded exchange or pacement. Visa and immigration requirements in Ireand and the host countries wi need to be observed, so any students in this category wi need to make eary appications to avoid any deays. Erasmus Pacements During 2010, a record number of CIT students traveed abroad to undertake practica training periods, with funding from the Erasmus programme Of the tota of 35 students, some 15 students from the Socia and Genera Studies Department, carried out their pacements in Socia Care organisations in Sweden, Denmark, Hoand and Portuga, whist six Eary Chidhood Care and Education students traveed to Lahti in Finand, and Coogne in Germany. Students from the Departments of Chemica Engineering, Mechanica Engineering, Tourism, Bioogica Sciences, Chemistry and Civi, Structura and Environmenta Engineering aso participated in the pacement programme during The Institute s arge network of European partner institutions sourced and arranged pacements for these students, in companies, research centres or in campus aboratories which carry out projects for externa companies. Despite the economic downturn, there has been a heathy increase in the number of overseas pacements made avaiabe for CIT students, and this has been matched by an increased demand amongst students for overseas work experience. 42

43 CIT to host a Nationa Conference on Erasmus CIT wi host an Erasmus Vaorisation Conference and Internationa Officers meeting on 9th December Registrars, academic staff and Internationa and Pacement Officers from Irish HEIs wi attend the event. The event wi focus on an evauation of the ecturing exchange programme, with presentations from former participants, as we as how HEI s promote the Erasmus programme. More detais in the next issue of the Learning City Magazine. CIT joins the University Network of European Capitas of Cuture (UNeECC) CIT recenty became a member the University Network of European Capitas of Cuture (UNeECC). The UneECC is an internationa non-profit association, which was founded in Pécs Hungary in December 2006, by 15 founding members. The UNeECC is a network aimed at stimuating new forms of coaboration between HEI s ocated in European Capitas of Cuture (former, current and future capitas) both in the areas of education and cuture. The network hed its 4th Annua Conference in Pecs, Hungary (currenty one of the three European Capitas of Cuture for 2010), in October 2010, hosted in association with the Compostea Group of Universities. The theme of the conference was: Incusion through Education and Cuture. Attendees at the UneECC Conference in Pecs, Hungary, in October The buiding in the background is the Facuty of Business and Economics, University of Pecs. The conference was aso addressed by Jean-Phiippe Gamme, Education and Cuture DG, European Commission, who has responsibiity for the European Capitas of Cuture programme. The city of Cork was represented by Director of the Nationa Scupture Factory, Mary McCarthy, who was an invited speaker at the conference. CIT was represented at the conference by Ed Kuczaj and Jessica Carson of CCAD s Art Therapy Department, who jointy deivered a paper entited: Arts Participation and Deveopment in a Socia Context, and by Margaret Muderrig of the Internationa Affairs Office. The UNeECC particuary encourages student participation in its deveopment, and has aso set up a parae UNeECC Student network. The network sponsored a student from each participating institution to attend the student network meeting, which ran aongside the main UneECC conference. Jack Hickey, a 4th year BA (Hons) in Fine Art student, and former Student Union site President, gave a presentation on CIT and Cork at the student workshop. It is anticipated that a number of academic and cutura contacts wi be deveoped between CIT and some of the other UNeECC member institutions, particuary in the areas of arts, cuture, tourism and the creative economy. For further information, pease see UNeECC website: Lászó Andor, European Commissioner for Empoyment, Socia Affairs and Equa Opportunities was the Keynote Speaker of the UNeECC-Compostea Joint Conference. 43

44 THOMAS LYNCH REPORTS FROM SWEDEN Thomas Lynch is a 4th year BBS student who is currenty spending the year in Bekinge Tekniska Hogskoa in Sweden on an Erasmus pacement. If he is successfu in his studies there, he wi quaify with both a BBS hons from Cork and a Master s from the coege in Sweden. At first, I was petrified; going to a foreign country, earning a new anguage, trying to make new friends and a the whie studying for a Masters. Needess to say it was daunting, but with determination in my mind, and skype on my aptop, I headed to Sweden, expecting bondes everywhere and snow year round. Disembarking from the pane, draped in a jacket, scarf and goves, I thought I had boarded the wrong pane when the sun began to make me sweat. In hindsight, it was daft of me to think that Sweden snowed year round, but I knew nothing about the country before; that s why I was going. It was easy to make friends here because we were a in the same situation. I took my usua refuge in sport, making friends from a corners of the word. It was exciting; one person from Romania, another from Turkey, someone from Nigeria. Luckiy I was Irish, and everyone aways appreciated that. They had a experienced the wecoming atmosphere of an Irish bar and wished to refect that back to me. Soon we were a going to parties every weekend together, and despite the odd spot of studying, were having a good time. After a time we a got into our comfort zones and began shaping groups. The obvious groups were formed, the Germans, the Spanish, the French etc; however there was a ot of room for foating among them. I eventuay found my feet as the first wave of snow began to fa. With a of Europe experiencing their worst winter in some time, we found ourseves trudging through the snow, or saving time waking across the frozen sea to other isands in our archipeago town. Snowmen were made, snowba fights were had, but the cod winter brought with it an unwanted desire to stay inside and study. And study we did, however it was not in the conventiona Irish method. Despite our own coege s progressions towards continua assessment in the past few years, there is sti a ot of stress during those two weeks at the end of the semester. However, in Sweden, they have a competey different system, where the focus is on sef research and assignment work, as opposed to teaching and exam. to give the pupis an opportunity to speak to them in their mother tongue, and promote the idea of doing an Erasmus period abroad. I fee that I benefitted from the scheme as much as the schoo students. I woud give a presentation about Ireand and ater ask the students to te me something about Sweden. I got a great insight into sports, games, food, hoidays and cuture here, whie aso experiencing first hand the exceence of the Swedish education system. The high reputation of the Swedish education system, ike its pubic heath care and pubic transport systems, are we-deserved. The current system of free third eve education for everyone in the word, is currenty under review at the moment, and may be imited to EU citizens, but even that is impressive. These pubic services are a funded by notoriousy high taxes which the Swedes don t seem to mind. In fact in a survey carried out eight years ago, more peope were incined to have the taxes raised. This concept of socia responsibiity and community fosters an atmosphere of hep your feow man, or even your man from Ireand. And hep they did. With the year coming to an end, I m refecting on how great it has been here. A white wonderand in winter, and now with spring warming the water, and barbeques fiing the air with an appetizing aroma, I am sorry to be eaving Sweden so soon. But I am very thankfu for the great experiences, thankfu to Margaret Muderrig, Michae Wash, Maurice Murphy, Jannike Jonasson, and Meissa Engeke, and to a the Erasmus students who made the year great with trips to Kiruna, Lund, Göteborg and Stockhom, and with a party for every occasion of every theme. And finay I woud whoeheartedy encourage any student thinking of studying abroad to go for it! I can t be certain that it wi be the best thing you ever do, but it wi definitey be a contender. I observed the same practice in the second eve schoos here. The students wear no uniform, and have a ot of free time in between casses. I noticed this when I was taking part in a project organised by the Internationa Office at BTH. The European on Loan scheme was designed so that visiting students coud visit surrounding schoos 44

45 ESB/CIT/DIT Apprentice Engineering Education Programme (AEEP) Dr Joseph Conne Head, Department of Eectrica Engineering In 2009 and 2010, the ESB recruited doube their usua number of eectrica apprentices. In the recruiting advert, they offered simutaneousy both a trade and the possibiity of paid career improvement through transfer to 3rd eve education. The reasoning was strategic: to create a resource of Leve 8, or above, quaified engineers from which their expanding Networks/ESBI sectors might draw. On 2nd September, 2010, the CIT apprentice cohort joined the Institute for a taster day and were warmy met by both CIT Facuty and Finance coeagues and aso by senior peope from within the ESB; the DIT cohort did ikewise on 3rd Sept 3rd in DIT. Both occasions seaed the 3-way dea and an MoU wi shorty be signed at CEO and Presidentia eve. Thus, a new era and a new reationship between CIT, DIT and the ESB wi begin. How wi it work? In the second year of apprentice training, phases 3 and 4, those who express interest in going to 3rd eve wi be graded on the basis of Leaving Certificate resuts in Mathematics and Engish, psychometricay tested and then put through a 6-modue bridging programme to take pace either side of and in the same ocation as their phase 4 theory bock, i.e. in CIT or DIT. Additionay, as part of their preparation for the bridging modues, the apprentices wi aso undertake a web based Mathematics course provided by Camast, WIT. Based on overa accumuated performance at the end of their 2nd year, the chosen apprentices wi then enter Stage 2 of the currenty avaiabe Leve 7 programmes in eectrica engineering in either of the two respective coeges in September This process may be repeated for up to 3 further years. And why us? CIT and DIT are two of the more estabished providers of eectrica engineering education nationay. CIT s Eectrica Department has steadiy buit on its apprenticeship programme over the years and its reativey recent arriva at Leve 8 has aready seen recruitment of its graduates into the ESB s nationa graduate programme. In choosing CIT as a provider partner, the ESB is recognising CIT s abiity to deiver trained professionas and more particuary, professionas who can be a key eement in their strategic pans for expansion over the next 5 to 10 years. Michae Loftus, Head of Facuty of Engineering and Science, CIT; Patrick Ecces, HRD Manager, ESB Networks; Pau Gaagher, VP for Finance & Administration, CIT; Dr Joe Conne, Head, Department of Eectrica Engineering, CIT; and Michae Loughnane, Manager, Leadership and Peope Deveopment, Group Human Resources, ESB Ireand. crossword No. 14 Set by Cassa ACROSS 1 How busybodies dea with seeing in the dark? (12) 8 Stop! Amber! Go! Confusion! (7) 9 Accumuation from support for god rising? Neary! (7) 11 Summary of abridged saga heading voume (7) 12 Note song can hep tanning (7) 13 Quiet boat presumaby had two of these fish (5) 14 Stars, not ike 19 ac. or 6, but ike such as 7 with a thousand, not a miion (9) 16 Idea shape for 3 mode (9) 19 Fix the Spanish at Orion s feet (5) 21 Hear bunger didn t start shivering not with this on! (7) 23 Bird fish in pig (7) 24 Fixes nameess fixer to get underway (3,4) 25 Outsider dismissed reported deceiver (7) 26 Cue for D, perhaps, in game after game (6,6) soutions on page 79 DOWN 1 Teenager might cast spe with a basin, right? (7) 2 Fixture on boat, audiby decaimed the poet, over Scottish water (7) 3 Disorganised pot I came upon for word system (9) 4 Picture puzze about transport (5) 5 Oder version of 1 d. might be a raucous augher (7) 6 Look up paster producer around here it s right above you! (7) 7 It s between the sibings in the sky you may need a 15 to see them a (5,7) 10 Fragie cows around head bu might be usefu in making a 15 (5,7) 15 Seect mudded desire of Cockney to see such as 6, 7 and 19 ac. (9) 17 Hamet s friend on the bridge (7) 18 Mumbed gibberish right on centre with support rising (7) 19 Changed and payed again (7) 20 Gather I m invited into French aboratory (7) 22 economy, perhaps, to scratch feas (5) 45

46 BCRI Symposium 2010 On 2nd and 3rd September, the Department of Civi, Structura and Environmenta Engineering, CIT and the Department of Civi and Environmenta Engineering, UCC, co-hosted the 2010 joint symposium on: Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireand BRI 10 Concrete Research in Ireand CRI 10 State of the art research in these areas were compemented by presentations from eading keynote speakers. This symposium presented practitioners and researchers with an opportunity for diaogue on topics of mutua interest. Unti 2008, these events have been hed separatey. The first Symposium on Bridge Engineering Research in Ireand was hed in 2002 and it has since been a biennia event. In 2006, BRI was expanded to incude topics reating to a aspects of transport infrastructure. The origina objective of the event to provide bridge researchers and practicing engineers with a forum to meet and discuss current research focuses and design/ construction practice was maintained, whie incuding experts from a areas of transport infrastructure. The first Cooquium on Concrete Research in Ireand was hed in UCD in 1995 and has been hed reguary ever since. The objective is to provide a forum for young and experienced researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their research work into a aspects of concrete. CIT s Department of Civi, Structura and Environmenta Engineering had additiona cause for ceebration on the second day of the conference when David Hodge, a CIT student, was awarded the prize for the best student presentation Finite Eement Modeing of Transverse Load Sharing Between Hoow Core Foor Sabs in the Concrete category. David s supervisors and co-authors were Brian O Rourke and John Justin Murphy. Congratuations to a concerned. Action Breast Cancer Month in CIT October was wordwide Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Chapaincy Student Support Team decided to raise funds for this very worthwhie cause by thinking outside the box. The team aunched its campaign on the 4th October with Irish Cancer Society merchandise and information about breast cancer and support groups. The Info Desk on campus was aso pinked for the month. On the 6th October, there were very strange ooking women down on pitch one in the Sports Stadium. A camogie match was hed in aid of Action Breast Cancer; past payers from CIT versus current payers and staff as we as a few ovey adies thrown in for good measure. Payers of the Match were decided by the referee, John Kearney, they were Irene Hogan and Miriam Deasy. Payers traveed from a over Munster to attend and 500 was raised. Many thanks to Keith Ricken, Miriam Deasy and Irene Hogan for their assistance with this event. On the 18th October, a tabe quiz was hed in the Outpost Bar, Bishopstown. After grueing rounds of questions, the eventua winners were The Coupes Retreat winning a cash prize and cinema tickets. Many thanks to the staff and management at The Outpost who sponsored the event and DJ. The team woud ike to thank everyone who supported its campaign through the purchasing of merchandise, supporting the events or donating. The tota amount raised in the month was A of the proceeds wi go directy to Action Breast Cancer (part of the Irish Cancer Society). CIT Receives Award for Promoting Innovation Over 1,000 sma Irish firms have used a 5,000 Government innovation voucher which aows them to ink with coege researchers to sove business and technica probems, according to the Minister for Science, Technoogy and Innovation, Conor Lenihan, TD. Last September, Minister Lenihan marked the 1,000th innovation voucher miestone at an event in the Government s indigenous job creation agency, Enterprise Ireand, in Dubin, where he presented awards to CIT and other top knowedge providers. The innovation voucher enabes sma firms to access skis, knowedge and speciaist faciities in Government-funded research institutions. 46 Sma Irish firms are now working with research teams in more than 41 research institutions - or so-caed knowedge providers - across the isand. CIT has competed 58 projects. For more detaied information, see Mr Conor Lenihan T.D., Minister for Science, Technoogy and Innovation, presents an award to Caroe O Leary, Industria Liaison Manager, CIT, in recognition of CIT s roe in fostering a cuture of innovation in sma companies through the Enterprise Ireand Innovation Voucher initiative.

47 IT academy CIT has aunched a professionay certified VMware IT Academy. Virtuaisation has emerged as a ground breaking technoogy providing private industry and pubic sector organisations with the abiity to consoidate, secure, improve fexibiity and reduce compexity in their IT infrastructure. VMware is a goba eader in the deveopment of virtuaised technoogies and the aunch of the Academy wi provide CIT students, fu-time and part-time, with the opportunity to earn how to depoy and everage VMware s key offerings in this context. The deveopment of the Academy was an initiative driven by Pat McCarthy, CIT VMware IT Academy Programme Manager and Gordon O Reiy (VMware) CIT VMware IT Academy Instructor who designed the VMware Academy Infrastructure. Leadership for the initiative was provided by Michae Loftus, Head, Facuty of Engineering & Science, CIT, Jim O Dwyer, Head, Department of Computing, CIT and John Doan, Senior Director VMware Goba Soution Services EMEA, Japan and China. CIT and VMware Staff: (L - R) Jim O Dwyer (Head, Department of Computing CIT); Gordon O Reiy (Training Manager VMware - VMware IT Academy Instructor); John Doan (Senior Director Goba Support Services VMware EMEA, Japan and China); Karen Egan (Senior Engineering Manager, VMware); Michae Loftus (Head, Facuty of Engineering and Science, CIT); and Pat McCarthy (VMware IT Academy Programme Manager, CIT) Pat McCarthy commented that The rate of deveopment of virtuaised infrastructures is quite starting. IT professionas of a types wi need to be competent in the key aspects of virtuaised technoogy impementation and support. John Doan, VMware commented that VMware is the goba eader in virtuaization and coud infrastructure and, through its ESX architecture, has transformed the way organisations deiver IT services. VMware is committed to continuousy evoving its product and service portfoios and providing an exceent eve of service to its customers. The estabishment of the VMware Academy at CIT is a natura deveopment for our Cork operation and we are deighted to hep in providing to up-and-coming students, and to those who are aready in the workpace, opportunities to earn how to optimay depoy and everage our word-cass technoogies. The VMware IT Academy programme enabes participating academic institutions to provide VMware education to students partaking in fu-time or part-time education. The programme is designed to introduce students to VMware technoogies and equip them with very much sought after VMware technica skis. VMware suppies specificay designed course materias to support students in their earning endeavours. CIT has instaed a top-cass infrastructure to support the deivery initiay of the highy regarded VMware Certified Professiona (VCP) in VSphere 4.1. The infrastructure has been designed by Gordon O Reiy and Pat McCarthy and is composed of equipment provided by vendors such as EMC2, Brocade and DELL to support the deivery of the courses. VMware IT Academy Cass: (L - R) Gordon O Reiy (VMware IT Academy Instructor); Martin Keane; Ger Thompson; Chares O Faherty; Jamie Deasy; Stephen Huxey; Fenian Santry; Pat McCarthy (VMware IT Academy Programme Manager); Wi Conway; and Catha Prendevie (absent from photograph). The first running of the VMware Certified Professiona (VCP) in VSphere 4.1 in CIT has just commenced and is being deivered over a 12 week period on Mondays and Wednesdays (6.30pm pm). This sow burn method of deivery enabes students to deveop exceent skis in virtuaization, storage and networking technoogies through a composition of theoretica modues and practica aboratory sessions in a purpose-buit environment. The sow burn approach has been used successfuy by CIT across many of its academies (e.g. CISCO, CompTIA and Nove SUSE Linux). Michae Loftus, commented that CIT is committed to providing a comprehensive and reevant set of IT courses that wi support the deveopment of Ireand s knowedge economy and innovation ecosystem. The aunch of our new VMware academy wi make a significant contribution in this context. 47

48 CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News Cormac McCarthy receives the Bi Whean Internationa Music Bursary Cormac McCarthy, an emerging young jazz pianist and composer who competed both the BMus and Taught MA at the CSM, has recenty been awarded a substantia music bursary by internationay accaimed Irish composer Bi Whean at an awards ceremony in Dubin. The Bi Whean Internationa Music Bursary, which was estabished to support Irish music students studying abroad, has assisted students to further their studies in discipines ranging from fim scoring, orchestration and music composition. Cormac McCarthy is a Cork-born composer and pianist who began studying piano aged four and soon after discovered the joy of composition. His teenage years saw him deveop both discipines in tandem, studying with Mary Beattie and George Dunne at the CSM whist receiving master casses from the ikes of Phiip Martin, Eva Pobocka, Barry Harris, Caroa Grindea, Dr Biy Tayor and Edward Simon. He received a first cass honours BMus in 2007 (majoring in piano performance) and went on to compete a Masters in Composition degree under C.S.L. Parker, graduating in Cormac has aways performed and composed in a wide range of musica genres from cassica to jazz to Irish traditiona music, eading to pubic performances in the U.K., France, Itay, Spain, New York and Chicago, often featuring Cormac s own compositions. He has aso appeared on numerous broadcasts and recordings incuding a recent TV documentary featured at the Chicago Fim Festiva. As a composer, Cormac is ooking to expore the synthesis of the different musica styes at his disposa and create an aesthetic of interest and rea cutura vaue. In September 2010, Cormac McCarthy entered a Masters course in Jazz Composition at DePau University Schoo of Music, Chicago, where he aso received a schoarship to study with jazz composer and arranger, Thomas Matta. Cormac said: Receiving the Bi Whean Bursary has benefitted me enormousy in meeting the costs of iving and studying in the U.S. Equay the prestige and honour associated with such an award is a massive persona boost and has given me a renewed beief in my composition. Cormac aso received additiona funding from the Arts Counci for this study period. Mairéad Hickey deights audiences Mairéad Hickey is a 14 year od vioin student of Adrian Petcu at the CSM. She has just returned from performing in a concert for soo vioin in Legnago, Verona region, Itay. Famous as the birthpace of Antonio Saieri, this town hosts an internationa cassica music festiva - the Concorso Internazionae Giovani Musicisti A. Saieri. Mairéad was awarded the Saieri Prize, primo premio assouto, with an extraordinary 100/100 from a the judges in Apri this year and was invited back to pay a soo concert. On October 17, 2010, Mairéad performed a wide and varied repertoire of cassica music for the vioin, with piano accompaniment by Maestro Federico Donadoni. The concert was an outstanding success. There was standing room ony and the enthusiastic Itaian audience brought Mairéad back for an unprecedented three encores. After the concert at Teatro Piccoo Saieri, she was invited to pay at the opening of the Agostino Bonaumi poetry and painting exhibition in Libreria Ferrarin Mondadori, Legnago. On both occasions, Mairéad captivated the audience with her performance which as the current A Ireand under 15 fidde champion - she finished off with some fast traditiona Irish tunes, much to the audience s deight. 48

49 CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM Students win Prestigious Awards at ESB Feis Ceoi events Congratuations to student Een Jansson and CSM graduate Santa Ignace who were both invited to perform short programmes in the prestigious ESB Feis Ceoi Young Patform Series in the Nationa Concert Ha in Dubin in September. These invitations were extended foowing their successes in the Feis Ceoi hed ast Apri. Een won the Rhona Marsha Cup for piano repertoire under 14 as we as coming second in the John Fied perpetua trophy. She has been studying piano with Eeanor Maone at CSM since the age of six and has won many prizes at Feis Maitiú and Feis Ceoi over the years - this year winning both soo and repertoire competitions in Cork as we as her successes in Dubin. She recenty attended the accaimed Chetham s Summer Schoo for Pianists in Manchester where she had the opportunity to take essons from some of the word s finest performers and teachers. Een Jansson Pianist Sante Ignace, from Latvia, won the Mabe Swainson Award - ong regarded as one of the top honours in Irish musica ife. She has been studying with teacher Jan Cap, CSM, receiving many awards and competing the Schoo s Taught Masters Programme. As we as performing in the Young Patform Concert series, she aso gave her debut recita in the Nationa Concert Ha on 4th October. Sante has now gone on to further study in Itay. Some additiona awards were aso presented during the first of these ceebratory concerts. Amongst those honoured were Rebecca McCarthy-Kent (vioin) and Emiy Crowey (piano). Transition Year student Rebecca was awarded the Junior Strings Rose Bow - given for the highest mark achieved in the Junior Strings competitions. She traves from Waterford every week for essons in the CSM with Ruxandra Petcu-Coan. In Dubin, Rebecca won the Vioin under 17 competition and has won many prizes over the years in Feis Maitiú, Arkow Festiva, and Kikenny. Rebecca McCarthy-Kent. Young pianist Emiy Crowey, who is just 10yrs and a student of Susan Cap, was together with Moy Murphy-O Kane, jointy awarded the Junior Piano Rose Bow. Emiy won the Darina Gibson Cup for Piano under 11 in Dubin and was a prize winner in her soo and repertoire competitions in Feis Maitiú in Cork. She is aso the Schoo s current Junior Minora Meda recipient. We congratuate these young students and teachers for their hard work and notabe achievements and for winning these prestigious nationa awards! Emiy Crowey 49

50 CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News Awards Ceremony at the Curtis Auditorium 23 September Gary Beecher and Denise Crowey with their prizes. Gary won the Gasink Perpetua Trophy; Bridget Dooan Perpetua Trophy; and the Nina Daby Piano Sight-Reading Prize. Denise won the PM Group Perpetua Trophy; Bernard B. Curtis Perpetua Trophy; and the Pro Musica Trophy. Grace Coughan, Caoifhionn Ní Choieain and Mairéad Hickey with their prizes. Grace was the Junior Recita Competition Finaist winner; and aso won the Bernard B. Curtis Memoria Trophy. Caoifhionn won the CSMSPA Perpetua Trophy; and a Meda for the most distinguished student in Intermediate Cyce. Mairéad won the ARUP Perpetua Trophy; and was aso awarded the Director s Prize 2010 Dr Geoffrey Spratt, Director, CSM, with recipients of the Director s Prize, Damien O Suivan and Kieran Geeson. 50

51 CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News CSM News Conferring 2010 took pace on the 1st November Top Left Sam Perkin, top BMus (Hons) student; and Dr Geoffrey Spratt, Director, CIT CSM. Top Right Ita Beauvais, Supervisor, Eaine Gordon, MA in Research; and Gabriea Mayer, Head of Piano, Bottom Left Michae Deaney, Head of Deveopment, CIT; Deirdre Long, Waterford City, MA in Music; and Gabriea Mayer, Head of Piano. Inaugura Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year CSM was represented by three semi-finaists at the Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year competition in Dubin during October 2010: Conor Paiser (piano), Ciara Gasheen (oboe) and Sinéad Frost (bassoon), the atter two accompanied by CIT staff member Ciara Moroney. They gave their debut recitas for the Cork Orchestra Society in the Curtis Auditorium prior to the competition to great audience accaim, and they a performed briianty in Dubin as we. Conor Paiser was a finaist and prize-winner and received extremey good feedback from both judges and audience members. The Fina was broadcasted on RTÉ LyricFM. Particuar congratuations to Mary Beattie, Lecturer in the Department of Keyboard Studies, who has nurtured Conor s taent since he was six years od. Conor Paiser Ciara Geeson Sinéad Frost 51

52 Nationa Skis Competition CIT once more payed host to what can ony be described as a most successfu Nationa Skis Competition. (L R) Organising Committee, 2010 with Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT: Wiiam Irwin, Michae Hourihan, Tom Knox, John Twohig, Ray Looney (Chairman), Séamus Farre, David O Riordan, Pat Forde and Geradine Mahon. This competition is run on an annua basis and is one of the most prestigious events in the crafts caendar. It attracts the best trainee crafts persons from around the country to compete for first pace in Ireand and win the coveted Department of Education and Skis Siver Meda in their respective ski. From the skis training perspective, it provides a magnificent opportunity to showcase the reentess commitment to the training and deveopment of highy skied crafts persons within the Irish education system. Irish industry aso hods these competitions in high regard and is very supportive and faciitating to the competitors, as we as providing much appreciated sponsorship in the form of materias, equipment and financia assistance. Ray Looney (Chairman) makes fina arrangements for the Awards Ceremony with Dr Brendan Murphy. As usua a very high standard of craftsmanship was on dispay and competition was papabe with one craft producing joint winners. Whie CIT makes its equipment and resources avaiabe, the event is organised and run by a vountary organising committee. This consists of a group of dedicated CIT staff who have a keen interest in the crafts and who in many cases have themseves been either competitors or winners in the Nationa Skis Competitions in the past. This year, ten competitions took pace at CIT namey; carpentry, construction pant fitting, eectrica instaations, industria contro, joinery, meta fabrication, pastering, refrigeration, weding and restaurant services. CIT entrants performed very we with winners in; construction pant fitting, eectrica instaations, meta fabrication, refrigeration and weding. Whie competitors must not be more than 22 years of age on the year of the competition, winning is seen as a tremendous achievement and nationa winners are revered and much sought-after by prospective empoyers. In addition, nationa winners may be chosen to represent Ireand in the WordSkis competition which is a bi-annua event. The next WordSkis competition wi be hed in the UK in 2011 and next year s Nationa Skis Competition wi be hed in March to faciitate this. The Nationa Skis Competitions are open to the pubic and visitors are aways wecome to view and savour the high eves of craftsmanship on dispay aong with the tense competitive atmosphere. 52

53 Cr Michae O Conne, Lord Mayor of Cork, Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT, and Batt O Keeffe, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, were present at the Award Ceremony. Danie Devereaux was presented with the winner s trophy in Construction Pant Fitting. Deegation visits Poytech Paris Sud Ray Looney Last autumn, a deegation from CIT visited Poytech Paris Sud in France with a view to estabishing inks between their respective departments. Poytech Paris Sud is no stranger to CIT with student exchange programmes aready in existence. Dean O Gorman was presented with the perpetua trophy for Weding by sponsor Finbarr Hennessy. Aidan Lowry was presented with the winner s trophy for Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Ger Roche was presented with the winner s trophy for Meta Fabrication. Kieran Doherty was presented with the winner s trophy in Eectrica Instaations. Whie the theme for the visit was ceary apprenticeship, from the onset it became apparent that there is a significant difference in the use and interpretation of apprenticeship across the two cutures. Whie apprenticeship in Ireand is amost excusivey associated with skis training and ends with the awarding of FETAC s Nationa Skis Certificate, the concept of apprenticeship in Poytech Paris Sud extends right up to the equivaent of CIT s Honours Degree and beyond. In many cases, their equivaent CIT futime degree student woud be referred to as an apprentice, having aready become an empoyee with an appropriate company. The apprentice wi then aternate between the empoyer and Poytech in two week bocks. In addition, two extended periods are given with the empoyer in January/February and again in Juy/August, giving a yeary tota of 32 weeks with the company and 20 week at Poytech. For this, the apprentice is awarded 45 credits by the company and 135 credits by the coege. The highight of the visit to Poytech Paris Sud was a tour of one of Renaut s car production faciities on the outskirts of Paris. The pant in question produces the she and assembes approximatey 733 Renaut Cio cars per day with a production time per car of approximatey 14 hours. Regardess of one s enthusiasm for motoring affairs, this tour proved very interesting, ranging from the advanced contro and automation of sophisticated robots to cear evidence of scientific management and just in time production methods with, for exampe, one truckoad of car seats arriving at the pant every 30 minutes. During the visit, a number of meetings were hed between Poytech Paris Sud and CIT staff. However, due to the significant difference between the two apprenticeship systems, it was fet that before any further progress coud be made, a simiar deegation from Poytech Paris Sud shoud visit CIT. It is hoped that this wi take pace eary in 2011 when a strategy for further engagement can be formuated. 53

54 Schoo of Business hosts Irish Academy of Management Conference The thirteenth annua Irish Academy of Management Conference was hosted by the Schoo of Business on 1-3 September Head of Schoo of Business Mr Gerard O Donovan and Conference Chair Dr Margaret Linehan wecomed approximatey 140 deegates to CIT from academic institutions throughout Ireand together with overseas deegates from a range of countries incuding Austraia, Britain, France, Iceand, Switzerand, and USA. Gerard O Donovan, Head, Schoo of Business, CIT; Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; Prof. Jean Bartunek, Professor of Organisationa Studies, Boston Coege; Dr Margaret Linehan, Schoo of Business, CIT, and Conference Chair; and Prof. Michae Morey, University of Limerick, and IAM Chair; at the 13th Irish Academy of Management Conference, hosted by Cork Institute of Technoogy Officiay opening the conference CIT President Dr Brendan Murphy said, the theme of the conference, Renewing the Management Research Mandate, provides opportunities for researchers to share information and to consider how the knowedge produced contributes to the webeing of the arger society in which we ive and work. I am peased that this conference wi continue to highight the importance of management research, particuary in the current economic cimate. Three keynote addresses were presented during the conference. The first penary session was given by Professor Jean M. Bartunek from Boston Coege. Professor Bartunek focused on the theme of the conference and asked, Shoud the renewed management research mandate incude practitioners? Her presentation expored the connections between academia and practice by focusing on academic papers pubished in high-ranking journas, and asked some thought provoking questions in reation to the reevance, if any, of impications for practice section of these artices. The second keynote address was given by Mr John Connoy, Commercia Director at SouthWestern, a business process outsourcing company. Mr Connoy was invited to share his business experience with deegates, and his presentation, Strategies for growth: Lessons from industry, focused on the deveopment of SouthWestern. His presentation traced the successfu deveopment of SouthWestern from its foundation in 1957 to its market eadership position in business process outsourcing today. He attributed the commercia success of SouthWestern to innovation, research and deveopment, and peope deveopment. The fina keynote address was given by Professor Frank Horwitz from Cranfied Schoo of Management. His timey penary session focused on Seven chaenges for deveoping eaders in the post goba financia crisis word. His presentation suggested that the primary chaenge for companies today is to provide customer vaue based on vaues of doing business responsiby and with integrity. He beieves that organisations require the next generation of executives from business schoos to be: entrepreneuria and innovative, sef-aware, adaptive, ethica in eadership, independent thinking, and to promote responsibe governance, deveop probem-soving capabiities, and manage in times of rapid change, uncertainty, compexity and goba diversity. The arge number of papers presented by academics and postgraduate students were arranged into a number of parae sessions, incuding: human resource management, organisationa behaviour, tourism, teaching and earning, marketing, industria reations, retaiing and whoesaing, strategic management, technoogy management, accountancy and finance, and heathcare management. Prizes were awarded for the best paper presented in each of the parae tracks. Last year s conference introduced two new Academy award categories. First, the Distinguished Contribution to Management Award was presented to Dr T.K. Whitaker, and is now known as the Irish Academy of Management Whitaker Award. The recipient of the 2010 Irish Academy of Management Whitaker Award was Dr Miriam Hederman O Brien. Dr Hederman O Brien is recognised as an outstanding figure in nationa and European pubic affairs who has given decades of expert and committed service to a wide range of institutions, governments, and civic programmes. In a voume of essays ceebrating her work, she is described as a rare and exceptiona person in the breadth of her interests and the quaity of her contribution over so many fieds (de Buitéir and Ruane, 2003). The second category, Feowship of the Academy, acknowedges individuas for their distinguished contribution to academia and to the deveopment and growth of the Irish Academy itsef. Feowship of the Irish Academy of Management is the highest honour the Academy can bestow on one of its members. The 2010 recipient was Professor Bi Roche from the Department of Industria Reations and Human Resources at the Schoo of Business, University Coege Dubin, and Honorary Professor at the Schoo of Management, Queen s University Befast. He has payed an important roe in business and management education in Ireand, incuding the eary deveopment of the Irish Academy of Management and the Irish Journa of Management. The awards were presented at the conference dinner, attended by Batt O Keeffe, TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, and members of CIT s Institute Executive Board. 54

55 The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O Keeffe TD with Prof. Bi Roche of UCD who was made a feow of the Irish Academy of Management and Dr Miriam Hederman O Brien who was presented with the Ken Whittaker Lifetime Award to management in Ireand. Mika Vanhaa, Lappeenranta University of Technoogy, Finand; and Briga Hynes, University of Limerick. Mika Vanhaa, Lappeenranta University of Technoogy, Finand; and Briga Hynes, University of Limerick. Dr Marian Crowey-Henry, Dubin Institute of Technoogy; and Richard Mitche, Uster Business Schoo. AEHT Conference & Competitions Lisbon The Association of European Hote and Tourism Schoos (AEHT) annua Conference and Competitions took pace in Lisbon from the 5th 10th October. Over 800 peope, students, teachers, representatives of internationa hote groups and invited ecturers, took part in conferences, workshops and competitions covering the different tourism areas. This event represents a major opportunity to share knowedge on best practices and experience from different parts of the word, as we as to promote the hospitaity and tourism industry. The students were chosen from among the top three of their respective cass groups. The Irish representatives were made up of students and ecturers from WIT, AIT, ITT, LYIT as we as CIT. Representing CIT were Amanda Noonan (Hospitaity Management Yr 2); Kiara O Drisco (Tota Immersion Chef Programme); and James McCarthy (Tota Immersion Chef Programme). 55

56 Partnerships for Progress Conference recommends coser aignment between business and higher education Leaders from industry and higher education, and poicy makers from government departments and funding agencies came together at Farmeigh House, Dubin, on 23 September, to discuss how to deveop coser engagement between higher education and the word of business and the wider community. The conference was organised by the Roadmap for Empoyment - Academic Partnerships (REAP) Project. REAP is a coaborative project funded through the Higher Education Authority s Strategic Innovation Fund. The project is ed by CIT and has eight Higher Education Institutiona project partners, six Institutes of Technoogy and two Universities. Opening the conference, Minister for Lifeong Learning, Seán Haughey TD tod the participants that Cose cooperation between higher education and business has benefits for everyone it promotes the reevance and attractiveness of higher education programmes; it provides business with the skied peope that it needs; and it gives assurances to graduates on the reevance and marketabiity of their skis. Encouraging the participants to engage fuy with the conference theme of Partners in Progress, the Minister went on to say that whie reationships between the words of business and higher education are we estabished in Ireand, they are more important now than ever before as we seek to regain economic stabiity and ensure growth and sustainabiity for the future. Keynote presentations were deivered by Mike Devane, Chair, American Chamber Research and Deveopment Working Group, Business and Industry Consutant, Quiy; Prof. Eamonn Murphy, Director, Enterprise Research Centre, University of Limerick; and Prof. José-Ginés Mora, University of London. The keynote presentations in each case were foowed by pane discussions which focused on the potentia scope of externa engagement, how higher education institutions can support it, and how success can be measured. Speaking from the perspective of industry, Mr Devane said the critica question was What motivation is necessary to cause externa engagement to take pace? He identified five key areas for engagement - integrated panning and aignment that matches education investment to ski deficits; investing in new skis in the current workforce; ensuring rapid redepoyment of critica core skis in the workforce; creating custers of knowedge around internationay recognised research institutes that attract investment; and addressing the inevitabe oss of capabiity in industry through contining corporate education and deveopment. He went on to say that Higher Education, for its part, must be abe to do more with ess; keep a focus on research and innovation; and provide eadership for change. During the pane discussion, Mr Michae Key, Chairman, HEA argued if we need to produce peope who at the end of three or four years can actuay emerge and hit the deck running, it does invove not just HEIs, but the engagement with empoyers, with enterprise, which needs to happen a ong time before graduates emerge. 56

57 Prof. Murphy aso spoke about the need for innovation and fexibiity, and embedding the concepts of continuous earning, teamwork and inteectua curiosity in what he described as the extended university. He aso argued that higher education is not just an economic imperative, but it is aso a socia imperative. He stressed that HEIs exist not for industry, but for the individua and for aowing the individua the opportunity to freey and easiy access knowedge. This issue of the purpose of HEIs then dominated most of the pane session, with a discussion on the varying missions of Higher Education providers and the need to measure performance against mission. Prof. Mora emphasised that the measurement of these activities was very difficut, given their very wide range and compex nature. He discussed the Good Practices in University Enterprise Partnerships (GoodUEP) project which examined University Entreprise partnerships in 18 European universities. From an examination of 10 cases of good practice, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Fexibiity, Innovation and Trust emerged as the crucia success factors. He emphasised again that no two partnerships are the same and he suggested that in many cases, there is a reuctance in the academic word to foreground this engagement activity. Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; Minister for Lifeong Learning, Seán Haughey TD; and keynote speakers: Mike Devane; Prof. José-Ginés Mora; and Prof. Eamonn Murphy. In the pane discussion that foowed, Muiris O Connor of the HEA suggested that among other measures, student profie in institutions coud te a ot about externa engagement the percentage of fexibe earners, evening courses, part-time earners, open business earners, mature, adut earners, for exampe. The conference proceedings was pubished in December. For more information on the conference and on the REAP project, go to or contact reap@cit.ie From CIT: Pau Keane, CAMMS Centre Manager; Dr Margaret Linehan; and Josette O Muane, Industry Liaison Manager. Michae Deaney, Vice President for Deveopment, CIT; Dr Terry Maguire (ITTD); Jennifer Van Aswegen (ITSigo); and Irene Sheridan, Head, Strategic Innovation Projects Unit. 57

58 Facuty of Business and Humanities Annua Awards Ceremony On 27th October, the sixth annua Facuty of Business and Humanities Awards ceremony took pace in the Tourism and Hospitaity Buiding, to honour the Business and Humanities graduates for A tota of 28 awards were presented across the Facuty. This event was estabished to ceebrate the achievements of its outstanding students and to acknowedge the contribution of many others who supported them. The Facuty of Business and Humanities incorporates the Schoo of Business (consisting of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, the Department of Continuing Education, and the Department of Management and Marketing), and the Schoo of Humanities (consisting of the Department of Deveopmenta Education, the Department of Tourism and Hospitaity Studies, and the Department of Socia and Genera Studies). There are approximatey 4,000 students incuding fu-time, part-time and craft students within the Facuty of Business and Humanities. Bernard Vaey from the Department of Continuing Education was Master of Ceremonies on the night. Bernard introduced keynote speaker Dr Barry O Connor, Registrar and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Damien Courtney, Head of Facuty, who paid tribute to the graduates and staff. The Awards Ceremony was attended by the recipients of these awards, their famiies and friends, and staff of the Facuty of Business and Humanities. The various Awards were presented by sponsors from severa organisations of the business, banking, accounting, sports, tourism and hospitaity, community, socia and heath care sectors. Twenty six awards were presented to students who exceed in degree, professiona fu-time and evening programmes in 2010 whie Fáite Ireand presented two specia awards to persons from the Department of Tourism and Hospitaity Studies who exceed in the Hospitaity sphere. These achievements are a spendid testament to both students and staff. Diarmuid McDonne, BBus (Honours) in Information Systems was the recipient of the Des Roche Memoria Award in memory of Des Roche, Lecturer in Business Studies, who sady passed away in A reception at the concusion of the forma part of the evening was an idea opportunity for ceebrating the achievements of the award winners. It was aso an opportunity for staff, students, sponsors and indeed retired staff to sociaise in a reaxed and peasant environment. BBus (Honours) in Accounting: Dr Barry O Connor, Registrar & VP for Academic Affairs; Damien Courtney, Head of Facuty; Sheia Lewis, CIMA; Jamie Russe, Recipient; Don Crowey, Head, Department of Accounting and Information Systems; and Gerard O Donovan, Head, Schoo of Business. Master of Business (Taught): Haze Shanahan, EMC 2 presents the award to Lisa Hayes. 58 Aoife Lohse was presented with the Fáite Ireand Service Award. BSc in Agricuture: John Muhern, Principa, Conakity Agricutura Coege presenting the award to James Ambrose.

59 BBus in Business Administration: Dr Barry O Connor; Damien Courtney; Marian McGurrin, La Créme Recruitment; Aising Carey, Recipient; Don Crowey; and Gerard O Donovan. BBus in Cuinary Arts: Dr Barry O Connor; Damien Courtney; Conor O Brien, La Rousse Foods Ltd; Loraine Wash, Recipient; Adrian Gregan, Head, Department of Tourism & Hospitaity Studies; and Ray Coughan, Head, Schoo of Humanities. BBus in Management: Dr Barry O Connor; Damien Courtney; Ger Mahoney, Deoitte; Michee Dunne, Recipient; Ann-Marie Twomey, Department of Continuing Education; and Gerard O Donovan. BBus in Bar Management: Dr Barry O Connor; Damien Courtney; John Bowe, Irish Distiers Ltd; Geradine O Mahony, Recipient; Adrian Gregan and Ray Coughan. BA in Eary Chidhood Care and Education: Dr Barry O Connor; Damien Courtney; Catherine Sheehan, Cork Eary Years Network; Ann Lane, Recipient; Jim Wash, Head, Department of Socia & Genera Studies; and Ray Coughan. The Des Roche Memoria Award: Dr Barry O Connor; Damien Courtney; Katheen Roche; Diarmuid McDonne, Recipient; Don Crowey; and Gerard O Donovan. BBus (Honours): Dr Barry O Connor; Damien Courtney; Rose Coughan, Manager, Bank of Ireand CIT Branch; Marie Griffin, Recipient, Brian McGrath, Head, Department of Management & Marketing; and Gerard O Donovan. BA (Honours) in Socia Care: Dr Barry O Connor; Damien Courtney; Donn Horgan, Manager, AIB CIT Branch; Jennifer Cotter, Recipient, Jim Wash; and Ray Coughan. 59

60 Exceence Ireand Quaity Association awards 1st pace to CIT student Úna Reidy On the 24th September, Úna Reidy, of Knocknagoshe, Co Kerry, received a Student of the Year Award from the Exceence Ireand Quaity Association (EIQA), having achieved 1st pace at the 2010 EIQA examinations for the Dipoma in Quaity Management Part 1. This nationa examination is taken by students at a number of Irish institutions where the course is deivered on behaf of the EIQA. The course is managed at CIT in the Department of Chemistry, and is deivered by Dr Mary McCarthy and Mr John Conroy. Úna graduated in Biomedica Sciences from CIT in 2001, and subsequenty competed the joint CIT/UCC MSc in Biomedica Sciences in She is empoyed in the Microbioogy Laboratory of the Bon Secours Hospita in Cork, which was the first hospita in Ireand to attain ISO aboratory accreditation. Among her other duties, Úna is responsibe for managing the reguar aboratory audits, as part of the hospita s quaity assurance process. She has found the EIQA Dipoma in Quaity Management Part 1 to be a vauabe addition to her quaifications, and is currenty studying for the EIQA Dipoma in Quaity Management Part 2 here at CIT. Irene Coins Managing Director, EIQA; with Úna Reidy Student of the Year DQM Part 1. Teachers and Guidance Counseors Information Day CIT s annua Information Day for Guidance Counseors took pace on Thursday 4th November in the Rory Gaagher Performance Theatre which is ocated on the Bishopstown Campus. Various presentations were made to Guidance Counseors from a over Munster on new courses, further deveopments, as we as pans for the Institute s future. Liian Griffin, Loreto, Fermoy; Kathryn Day, Dougas CC; Patricia Water, Cork County VEC; and Kate Whaey, Presentation Brothers Coege; at the Information Day for Teachers and Guidance Counseors. The Guidance Counseors were wecomed by both Dr Brendan Murphy (President of CIT) and Dr Barry O Connor (Registrar and Vice-President for academic affairs). In wecoming the Guidance Counseors, Dr Brendan Murphy stated That as an Institute we are acutey aware that the Guidance Counseor roe is pivota, where you are the front ine resource used by many students considering their future options specific to higher education. Nationa Exhibition of Patchwork and Quiting 4th 11th September 60 Dr Barry O Connor, Registrar and Vice President of Academic Affairs, CIT; Laura Wasiowski; and Deputy Lord Mayor, Kieran McCarthy. The 4th September saw the opening of the Irish Patchwork Society free Q For Quits exhibition. Members of the Irish Patchwork Society, who are spread throughout Ireand, came together to dispay a variety of patchwork quits, ranging from seven foot wide bed quits to art quit wa hangings. As we as viewing the quits, visitors watched demonstrations of the craft and aso istened to a tak by American quit artist Laura Wasiowski, who officiay opened the exhibition. Dr Garrett O Suivan, CIT; with Rebecca Murdoch and Codagh O Nei, at the Department of Architecture stand. Open Day 2010 A very successfu Open Day was hed on the 20 November. An extensive range of activities were hed throughout the day, which was of particuary benefit to students seecting higher education courses and panning subsequent future careers. The main features of the day were course Exhibitions and a series of information sessions, workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions of student work and aboratory visits which took pace in the various departments on the various campuses.

61 Socia Care and Recreation & Leisure students participate in a European Programme on We-Being Hosted by Lahti University of Appied Sciences, Finand; in coaboration with Saxion University, The Netherands; Frankfurt University of Appied Sciences, Germany; and CIT. Amy Shine, Anne-Marie O Shea, Jane Scanon, Tessa Marnane, Eva Casey, Sinead Morrissey, Vivienne O Mahony and Eaine O Riordan. Student perspective: In Apri/May 2010 eight students, four from 1st year Socia Care and four from 2nd year Recreation and Leisure visited Finand to compete the first two week Intensive Programme on Webeing. This programme was an exciting experience that has provided us with the opportunity to get a rea insight into the socia and heath care structures of other European countries. During the programme we worked cosey with individuas from Finand, The Netherands, Germany and Cyprus. The main themes were theories of heath and we-being, structure of socia and heath care services, different professionas within the fied, professiona ethics and entrepreneuria potentia. The individuas that took part in the course came from different socia and heath care professions. These professions incuded socia care workers, nurses, physiotherapists and recreation and eisure students. This gave us a a cear view of the input of each profession and the significance of each profession aso. By working together we got a cearer understanding of how taking a hoistic approach benefits the patient as we as the professiona. We aso discussed the best methods of interprofessionaism and how effective these methods woud be in each country. Through working together we got to see first-hand the benefits of working as part of an inter-professiona group. For exampe, as part of our workshops, we examined case studies of different types of peope such as; at risk youths and terminay i patients etc. We a agreed that if we had been working aone or within our own professions that we woud not have come up with so many soutions to the different probems. This shows that by working together we are taking a cient centred approach which is more beneficia to the cient and aso makes our job a itte easier. We discussed how and why each situation coud and coudn t work in each country. Through this method we were abe to see the advantages and disadvantages of each country s heath and socia care structure. We did a pre-assignment presentation about our own Nationa structures and heath and socia care services. Through observing the other countries presentations we gained new information about different European structures and varying cutures. By noting drawbacks in other systems we were abe to appreciate areas of our own systems that we may have taken for granted before. By hearing about other systems that worked we we were aso abe to see faws in our own system or areas that coud be much improved in our own country. It was aso very interesting to get an insight of these structures through the eyes of peope that are working and studying within these professions. By working in groups, we gained many new skis such as teamwork, debating skis, and interpersona skis. Parts of the programme made us a refect on the different job opportunities that may be avaiabe to us, not ony in our own country but in the European Union aso. For exampe, we visited a Rehabiitation centre, a home for mothers and their chidren and aso a schoo for chidren with disabiities. We were amazed by the exceent faciities at hand in these centres. We coud see that they were taking a hoistic approach and it was very effective. Having visited the centres we a refected on the experience and discussed the roe of our professions there. By showing us different types of heath and socia care faciities we were abe to see that there are many types of centres avaiabe to work in. The work in the centres is very rewarding. The programme was an a-round beneficia experience for the Irish group. It was very we organised. There was a ot to be gained from the programme and no downside to taking part. We have earned many new aspects about our own professions and about other professions with whom we wi be working in the future. We had an opportunity to see a new country, had a great time in Finand and made new friends aong the way aso. The coordinators of the course showed great Finnish hospitaity. We woud ike to thank everyone who made this a good experience for us; the co-ordinators, our ecturers Con Burns and Ona McGrath and a of the students who took part. Group of participating students and staff. 61

62 CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News continued from page 27 CTC continues to support Loca Authorities CTC continues to provide technica support to oca authorities in Ireand as part of the nationa Loca Authority Prevention Network (LAPN). CTC were active in the organising of the Nationa 2010 LAPN Conference in Croke Park in June 2010 and the event was a great success with a very high attendance. There were speakers from EPA, CTC, ESRI, DEHLG, oca authorities and OVAM, and workshops and discussions on severa subjects. CTC has prepared a Summary Report of the Loca Authority Prevention Demonstration (LAPD) Programme from The programme, which was supported by the EPA as part of the Nationa Waste Prevention Programme (NWPP), demonstrated a wide range of successfu projects invoving 14 oca authorities. These have improved resource efficiency (waste, water and energy) practices in oca businesses, communities and within the oca authorities themseves, with significant cost savings. The report highights the successes of the programme over a four year period, whereby oca authorities undertook ambitious actions across a range of sectors with significant resuts. CTC Staff at LAPN Nationa Conference, Coman McCarthy, Eieen O Leary, Dermot Cunningham, Mairead Creedon, James Hogan, and Coum Gibson. The fourth iteration of the Loca Authority Prevention Network Certified Course in Waste and Resource Use Prevention is underway and is being impemented by the Cean Technoogy Centre. Aready 26 oca authority and other staff have been trained in this course and a new set of 8 trainees are undergoing training this year. The aim of this accredited programme is to provide participants with the knowedge and technica skis necessary to deveop, conduct, ead and manage waste prevention or minimisation strategies within their organisation or for others. In tota, CTC has worked with 17 Loca Authorities as part of this the LAPD and LAPN EPA funded initiatives. In addition, some 200 other organisations have aso been invoved. To downoad the Summary Report of the Loca Authority Prevention Demonstration (LAPD) Programme, go to To earn more about the Loca Authority Prevention Network (LAPN), go to Speakers at the LAPN Nationa Conference, Phiippa King, Regiona Waste Co-ordinator, Limerick Care Kerry Regiona Waste Management Office; Ray O Dwyer, County Manager, Waterford County Counci; Laura Burke, Director, Office of Licensing, Cimate and Resource Use, Environmenta Protection Agency; Prof. John Fitzgerad, Senior Economist, Economic & Socia Research Institute; Katrijn Siebens, Head of Unit Waste Prevention, OVAM, Pubic Waste Agency of Fanders, Begium; and Dermot Cunningham, Director, Cean Technoogy Centre. Chinese Deegation As part of its ongoing work in China under the Asia-Invest Programme, in Juy 2010 CTC hosted a arge and prestigious Chinese deegation to Ireand and CIT. 23 Chinese officias, academics and representatives of environmenta organisations from 11 provinces visited Ireand and spent time at the Environmenta Protection Agency in Wexford and the CTC. The deegation was received by Michae Deaney, Vice President for Deveopment, CIT, who formay wecomed the group. The site visits were managed by Coum Gibson and the group were given presentations about the CTC and its roe in Ireand by Dermot Cunningham and Tadhg Coakey. The group was aso given a day s briefing on the Green Hospitaity Award showing its successes and possibe repicabiity in China by James Hogan, CTC. 62

63 CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC News CTC assisting Producer Responsibiity Initiatives CTC is now working with the EPA s Enforcement Support Framework Producer Responsibiity Initiatives (PRIs), in a framework agreement for enforcement support services for PRIs over a period of three years for waste eectrica and eectronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries. The project wi be for the competion of campaigns of inspections to determine compiance with PRIs. Such campaigns of inspections by CTC wi focus on the foowing: Particuar commercia and industria sectors; Seected geographica areas; Distance seers; and, Particuar requirements of the Reguations. The ocations at which inspections wi be carried out wi aso incude the foowing: Retai outets and other business premises; Distribution centres. CTC wi carry out inspections on websites and other means of distance saes. Desktop studies may aso be a feature of some inspection and inteigence gathering campaigns. CTC wi aso be preparing B2B guidance and as we as carrying out other activities to promote compiance with the various producer responsibiity initiatives. EU Energy Project CTC is a partner in the EINSTEIN II Project that aims to contribute to a widespread impementation of integrated energy-efficient soutions for therma energy suppy in industria companies with a high fraction of ow and medium temperature heat demand, and for non-industria users of simiar demand profies (such as hospitas, commercia centres, arge office buidings, district heating and cooing networks, etc.). The project, which is funded under the Inteigent Energy Europe (IEE) Programme of the EU is ed by EnergyXperts SL and Chamber of Commerce and Industry Madrid (Spain and Germany) with partners from Austria (Austrian Energy Agency and AEE INTEC), Luxembourg (Centre de Recherche (CRP) Pubic Henri Tudor/Centre de Ressource des Technoogies pour Environnement (CRTE)), Germany (Deutsches Institut für Normung e.v. and ZukunftsAgentur (DIN) Brandenburg, Itay (Tecnoaimenti), France (Chamber of Commerce Drôme), UK (West Midands in Europe), Bugaria (Ruse University Ange Kunchev ) and Sovakia (Sovakian Ceaner Production Centre). The project buids on the EINSTEIN too kit for therma energy auditing that has been deveoped within the previous IEE project EINSTEIN ( CTC Presents at Resource Ireand 2010 Seminar CTC staff members Eieen O Leary and Tadhg Coakey presented at the Resource Ireand 2010 Seminar in Simmonscourt, Dubin on October 13th and 14th. There were three strands in the Seminar: Waste, Water and Sustainabe Business. Both Eieen and Tadhg presented in the Waste strand. Eieen s presentation was Managing Food Waste in Heath Care Faciities in Ireand and it set out the work being carried out by the CTC and others under the Environmenta Protection Agency s Green Heathcare Programme, focusing in particuar on food waste. The different sources of food waste within hospitas were detaied, incuding potentia steps that can be taken for its reduction. An exampe of some savings made to date by one hospita was outined. Tadhg s presentation was Optimised Domestic Pay by Use Charging Systems for Ireand A review of EPA /CTC Research Programme and it outined the resuts of an EPA STRIVE research project. This study ( ) aimed to evauate each pay by use (PBU) domestic waste coection system in Ireand in terms of its impacts upon waste disposa, recycing, and, in particuar, waste prevention, in order to determine the most environmentay effective system or system components. The presentation outined the draft resuts and findings of the project, the fina report of which wi be avaiabe in eary To downoad these presentations go to 63

64 Mechanica Engineering News On the 24th June, students David Keeher and Ciara McKenna won three of the top four awards at the 22nd Annua Internationa Medica Engineering Student Awards. This competition is open to recent graduates, third/fourth year undergraduates and taught Masters degree students, who have competed or are working on a project invoving the design or deveopment of a medica device. Foowing short-isting from a arge internationa entry, each project in the Internationa Medica Engineering Student Awards undergoes an exhaustive process of submission investigation, prototype presentation demonstration and exhibition before a distinguished adjudication pane of internationay renowned Medica Engineering Industriaists and Professors. David Keeher won the overa prize for Best Pubished and Presented Project, for his project on the Deveopment of Bovine Teat 3D Sensing System for Disinfection Purposes, under Supervisor, Dr Michae J. O Mahony. David aso won 1st pace in the Best Project invoving the Design and Deveopment of a Medica Device. Ciara McKenna won 2nd pace in the Best Project invoving the Design and Deveopment of a Medica Device for her project: Evauation of the puout strength of orthopaedic screws in deveoping nove bone cement, under Supervisor, Dr Hugh O Donne. Two Major Awards for CIT Teams at Enterprise Ireand / Invest Northern Ireand Student Enterprise Awards 2010 On the 3rd June, the nationa Enterprise Ireand/Invest Northern Ireand Student Enterprise Awards 2010 were announced by Minister Biy Keeher, T.D., Minister for Trade and Commerce. 350 third eve student submissions were short-isted to 15 undergraduate and postgraduate finaist teams from coeges a over Ireand. The competition invoved two days of project presentation, assessment and exhibition. 1st Pace Student Enterprise Awards - 10,000 Dipsticks University of Uster, Coeraine 2nd Pace Student Enterprise Awards - 7,500 Mobiis Cork Institute of Technoogy 3rd Pace Student Enterprise Awards - 7,500 Ethica Energy Queen s University Befast Enterprise Ireand/Invest Northern Ireand Award of Merit - 2,500 Tip Top Cue Tips Cork Institute of Technoogy The Mobiis team, comprising Myes Murray, Gavin O Suivan and Mark Keane, undertook the deveopment of an Intravenous Infusion System designed to optimise patient mobiity. Mary Robinson presents the W B Yeats Meda to Wiiam Hoand On the 1st November, Wiiam Hoand was presented with the Undergraduate Awards of Ireand and Northern Ireand Wiiam Buter Yeats Meda (First Pace - Engineering and Mechanica Sciences) by Ms Mary Robinson at the Roya Irish Academy, Dubin. Wiiam s project was on the topic Outsoe Design for the Enhancement of Support and Performance in Sports Footwear - supervisor Dr Hugh O Donne. The Tip Top Cue Tip team of Jonathan Howey, Danie Henderson, Aidan Vaughan and Ronan O Donoghue, are deveoping a chak-free Snooker and Poo Cue Tip. Both nationa award winning projects were undertaken as part of the Innovative Product Deveopment Laboratory Modues under the tuteage of Dr Michae J. O Mahony, Dr Chris Gibbons, and Seán F. O Leary. Many thanks to a who ent advice and guidance to the CIT student teams in their preparations for the Nationa Enterprise Awards and in particuar Joe Keeher, WJM Keeher Associates; Pau Heay, Manager, Rubicon Centre; Richard O Connor, Genera Manager, Cruickshank Inteectua Property Attorneys; Ger Fynn, Chief Biomedica Engineer, HSE; Pat O Connor, Manager, MEDIC; Chares Day, MEDIC; and ecturers Michae P. O Mahony and Dan O Brien. Congratuations aso to a in the Deveopment office Gynis Dennehy, Nicoa Wash, Caroe O Leary, Josette O Muane, Ruth Coughan and Michae Deaney, Vice President for Deveopment, - the CIT Prize for Innovation is a crucia catayst for the deveopment of the student innovation projects. 64

65 CIT Aumni Association (CITAA) CIT has an estabished Aumni Association which enabes graduates to keep in touch with deveopments at CIT and maintain contacts with friends, cassmates and facuty staff from coege days. Recent advances in technoogy have enabed graduates to engage with CIT and with former cassmates. The creation of socia and professiona forums such as Facebook and LinkedIn supports graduates to reconnect with CIT and one another. To find out about a the atest news and deveopments at CIT we encourage you to join these groups by ogging onto LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and search for: CIT Aumni Association Facebook CIT Aumni LinkedIn or CIT Aumni Twitter or htt s at Graduation Days Wecome to a the new aumni who were conferred in 2010, expanding the aumni community. A graduates enjoy automatic, free membership of the CIT Aumni Association. Niamh Duffy and Rache Day received a Bacheor of Business (Honours). PhD graduates James Carro, Bioogy; Marine Henry, Bioogy; Danie O Drisco, Chemistry; Oivia Cashman, Bioogy; and Pierre Douarre, Bioogy. CIT Aumni Upcoming Events Date and Time Event Venue Cost Booking Friday 4 March 2011 CIT Aumni Association Concert Curtis Auditorium, 20 - Fu Price E: aumni@cit. ie CIT Cork Schoo of Music. 15 CIT Aumni or 10 - Concession T: Friday 15 Apri 2011 CIT Aumni Association Lee Vaey Gof and 60 per person E: aumni@cit.ie Gof Cassic & BBQ Country Cub, Ovens, (incudes Gof to book your team. 3 person team event Co Cork & BBQ) First Tee Off: 14.04hrs CIT Aumni Association Concert The CIT Aumni Association and Cork Piano Forum in association with the CIT Cork Schoo of Music are peased to present a very exciting concert featuring members of a very musica Cork famiy, the Moynihans. Six sibings paying five different instruments wi perform a mixed programme of cassica and Irish traditiona music on Friday, 4 March 2011 at 8pm in the Curtis Auditorium. The concert wi feature different combinations of instruments from piano soo to duos, trios and a fu sextet (voice, two futes, piano, uieann pipes and guitar). They are deighted to be invited to perform in the CIT Cork Schoo of Music, where they a began their studies and discovered their passion for music. A performers are now estabished professiona musicians iving in Dubin, London, Mayo and Cork and they wi reunite in their native Cork for this concert. Advance Booking: CIT Aumni Office E: aumni@cit.ie Tickets avaiabe aso at the Genera Office CIT Cork Schoo of Music and at the door 65

66 2010 An Aumni Award is the highest honour that CIT can present to a graduate. To date, six graduates have received an Aumni Award. Aumni are eaders in their fieds and exce in their areas of endeavour. CIT ceebrated this exceence through the presentation of the CIT Aumni Awards, which honoured three graduates who have distinguished themseves in their respective professions. The main aim of the CIT Aumni Awards is to ceebrate the ife-ong vaue of an education and to provide inspiration for others peers and current students. The CIT Aumni Award recipients were seected from nominations put forward by members of the Institute community. The judging pane was chaired by the President of CIT, Dr Brendan Murphy, and comprised of representatives from the Institute Aumni Association Committee. Each award recipient was presented with a stering Siver Strawberry Dish which was made by the siversmiths at Sean Carro and Sons of Rutand Street, Cork. The foowing outstanding graduates received an Aumni Award: Graduating from CIT in 1985 with a Bacheors Degree in Eectronic Engineering, Bob Savage is aso a chartered engineer of the Institution of Engineers of Ireand (C Eng). He is a member of a number of professiona bodies and is a Committee member of the CIT Aumni Association. Bob is currenty Vice President and Managing Director for Ireand of EMC² Corporation based in Ovens, Co Cork, having worked for the company for 22 years. EMC² empoys approximatey 40,000 peope wordwide, more than 40% of whom work outside the US. EMC² Ireand was estabished in 1988 to manufacture IT storage products for its EU customers. The second Aumni Award Recipient is artist Vivienne Roche. Born in Cork, Vivienne Roche studied art in the Crawford Coege of Art & Design, from which she graduated in She aso studied at the Schoo of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Since then she has worked as a fu-time artist. In addition to her gaery work her work is in pubic and private coections in Ireand and abroad she has created many major pubic scuptures. These incude her commemorative piece in honour of President Cearbha O Daaigh in Sneem (1983); major pieces outside and inside the perimeter of St. Patrick s Cathedra in Dubin. More recenty she coaborated with the poet Derek Mahon to make a four metre high poem scupture in Kiarney and created three-part work, Light Ensembe, in CIT Cork Schoo of Music to mark its competion. Vivienne was a founder member of the Nationa Scupture Factory in Cork and is a member of Aosdána since The third Aumni Award Recipient is Gerard O Mahoney, FCA, Corporate Finance Partner and Regiona Partner in Charge at Deoitte. A native of Bishopstown, Ger is a graduate of Cork Institute of Technoogy in Business (Accounting). Gerard was the founding chairman of the CIT Aumni Association and was an active member of Scouting Ireand incuding serving as Nationa Treasurer. Gerard is the Regiona Partner in charge of Deoitte with responsibiity for the firm s Cork and Limerick offices which empoy 200 peope. The current president of Cork Chamber of Commerce, Gerard is a board member of IDA Ireand and the Nationa Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT). He is aso a Director of the Peope in Need Trust and a member of the Cork Science Park advisory board. CIT honours three iustrious graduates on the 7th October 2010 at a Gaa Banquet. Recipient Bob Savage, EMC²; Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; recipient Vivienne Roche, Artist; Michae Deaney, Vice President for Deveopment, CIT; and recipient Gerard O Mahoney, Deoitte & President, Cork Chamber. Aumni Award recipients Gerard O Mahoney, Deoitte & President, Cork Chamber; Artist Vivienne Roche; and Bob Savage, EMC². Bank 66 Many thanks to AIB and PJ Hegarty & Sons who sponsored the event.

67 What can we offer new graduates? The CIT Aumni Association offers members the foowing benefits and services: Access to wordwide and regiona chapters of the CIT Aumni Association A choice of CIT affinity credit cards with either AIB or Bank of Ireand which offer cardhoders preferentia rates Cass reunions service Discounts for services E-News (pease ensure we have an up to date emai address) Maiing of the Learning City magazine (pease ensure you keep us updated with contact detais). Genera information about careers, interview skis and CV deveopment for recent graduates (for 1st year out graduates) Access to CIT faciities (incuding ibrary membership) Invitations to various events Affinity Cards A arge number of graduates, students and friends of CIT have now become hoders of CIT Affinity Cards. Did you know that whenever you use the specia Visa/MasterCard from AIB or Bank of Ireand, you are heping your Aumni Association? This is because as we as offering you preferentia rates and other benefits, every time you use the card the bank makes a contribution to CITAA at no cost to you! So why not add either the AIB or Bank of Ireand CIT Affinity Card to your waet? To appy today and support your coege hurry down to either Bank of Ireand or AIB campus branch or phone: Organising a Reunion CIT Aumni Association offers a support service for those wishing to organise a reunion. We can aso provide you with the contact detais of your former cassmates. Ca us on Te or emai aumni@cit.ie for more information. We woud be deighted to incude your photos in the next edition of Aumni News Find a Friend The Aumni Office offers a free service for CIT Aumni who are seeking to contact od friends. If you woud ike to contact a cassmate or another Coege friend, a you have to do is contact us to post a request. Cass Notes Let your cassmates know what you have been doing. If you have news promotions, marriages, births, awards, pubications etc. pease contact us. If possibe, pease incude a coour photograph with your name and address printed on the reverse. Whatever your news, forward it to: The CIT Aumni Association, CIT or contact us at T: or by E: aumni@cit.ie Bank of Ireand, CIT on AIB, CIT on Chemica Engineering - 25 Year Reunion Graduates from the Chemica Engineering cass of 1985 reived their student experiences when they met for a Reunion on the 23 October in Cork. Od photographs and stories evoked found memories and a great night was had by a. Cassmates traveed from various parts of Europe and the US. Back row: Tony Hurey, Diarmuid O Connor, Dave Murphy, Joe O Hara. Front row: Mick O Conne, Dave Harrington, Ger Downing, Ger Buckey, Ed Hoare, Noe Duffy and Dr Michae Noonan. (L- R) Dr Michae Noonan, Ed Hoare, Diarmuid O Connor, Gynis Dennehy, Dave Murphy, Ger Buckey, and Tony Hurey. 67

68 CIT Makes an Impact at Socia Marketing Conferences Throughout the Word 2010 saw the research community invoved in Socia Marketing in the Schoo of Business at CIT, showcase its work both nationay and internationay. Next year promises to be an exciting year with the Second Word Non- Profit and Socia Marketing Conference taking pace in Dubin in Apri 2011 and CIT being a strategic partner. The foowing are some of the highights of The 2nd Socia Marketing Conference was hed in NUI, Gaway at the J.E. Cairnes Schoo of Business and Economics on 4 June The theme of the conference was Making it Happen Changing Behaviour and Changing Poicy. The keynote speakers were Prof. Gerard Hastings and Dr Ray Lowry. Gerard Hastings is Professor of Socia Marketing at Stiring University, Scotand and is Director of the Institute for Socia Marketing and the Cancer Research UK Centre for Tobacco Contro Research. Ray Lowry ectures in heath interventions in Newcaste University, Engand. CIT was represented by Maurice Murphy and Master in Business students Tim Crowey, Barry Griffin and Ronan O Suivan. Maurice Murphy presented a paper entited Impact of Socia Marketing on Irish Femae Coege Students Binge Drinking: Are Fear Appeas Effective? This paper deat with socia marketing and its appication to the probem of third eve drinking among Irish femae students. It anaysed what anti-acoho advertisements shoud contain in order to prevent/ reduce this probem drinking. Barry Griffin presented a paper on Adoescent Femae Smoking: Does Socia Marketing Have the Answer? This investigated if socia marketing, through the use of fear appeas can prevent adoescents taking up smoking. Ronan O Suivan presented his paper on The Use of Socia Marketing in Increasing Organ Donation Rates. This paper deat with the key roe that socia marketing can pay in getting peope to change their attitudes towards organ donation as we as encouraging more peope to carry an organ donor card. The success of organ transpantation has ed to the primary probem facing transpantation today: ack of sufficient organ donors. The 9th Internationa Congress of the Internationa Association on Pubic and Non Profit Marketing (IAPNM 2010) was hed in the Nationa Schoo of Poitica Studies and Facuty of Pubic Administration in Bucharest, Romania on the June CIT s Management and Marketing Department were represented by Maurice Murphy and two Master in Business students Barry Griffin and John Heay, who presented three fu papers and two works in progress. Director at the Department of Poitica Science and Internationa Affairs, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA. Deegates at the conference came from a over Europe, as we as South Africa, Canada and the USA. Maurice Murphy is the Irish representative on the IAPNM Organising Committee. Maurice presented a paper entited Driven to Excess: An Anaysis of the Causes of Young Mae Driver Deaths and Injuries. There were 240 road fataities on Irish roads in 2009 the owest eve since records began and 39 deaths down on 2008 figures. Young mae drivers are sti 7 times more ikey to be kied on Irish roads than other road users. Young mae drivers in particuar demonstrate a high procivity for risky driving behaviours. This paper presented an anaysis of the causes of young mae driver deaths and injuries, incuding drink driving, speeding, drug-driving and engaging in aggressive driving. Papers entited The Gift of Life: The Roe of Socia Marketing in Organ Donation and a fu paper entited Binge Drinking: The Curse of the Femae Student? were aso presented Barry Griffin presented his paper on Thinking Outside the Box: Does Packaging on Cigarettes Work? This paper anaysed the key roe of packaging on cigarettes in terms of its importance in promoting a heath message and contrasts were shown between text-based, graphic-based and pain packaging in terms of how effective each were at promoting a non-smoking message. John Heay presented his work on Just One Pint Saves Life: The Roe of Socia Marketing in Bood Donation. This paper deat with how bood donation is dependent on the goodwi of peope to vountariy donate bood, without financia reward. There is a continuous need for new bood donors, because the demand for donor bood is increasing, whereas the suppy of bood is decining. Ony 3.6% of the eigibe popuation in the Repubic of Ireand donate bood. This eaves an enormous potentia bood donor base, which if tapped into and maintained coud ead to an adequate reserve of donations to meet the transfusion needs of this country. The focus of the paper was on how socia marketing can be effective in increasing bood suppy. The Congress had a twofod objective, first, to compie and edit the atest deveopments in the fied of research in Pubic and Non Profit Marketing, and secondy, to gather in a discussion forum, professionas and academics interested in the area of this marketing discipine. The Conference had as its theme The Roe of Pubic and Non-Profit Partnerships in the Deivery of Pubic Goods and Services. The keynote speaker was Dr Andrew Ewoh, Master of Pubic Administration Programme 68

69 Crawford Coege of Art and Design Conferrings Michee Murphy, Amy O Riordan and Caoimh Ryan received a HDip in Arts for Art & Design Teachers. Sarah Moore and Kate O Brien received BA (Honours) in Fine Art. Heen Lynch and Pau O Reiy received a BA in Fine Art. Retirements Pamea Hardesty to exhibit in Benice Biennae 2011 Simon Engish, Geoff Steiner Scott, Harry McCormick, Kate McCormick, Dr. Juian Campbe, and Vera Ryan. Pamea Hardesty, CCAD Texties Lecturer, has been invited to exhibit in the 54th Venice Biennae in Her work wi be part of a specia Coatera Exhibition organised by Association Arte and Arte of Como, Itay, featuring internationa texties works seected from among their annua European touring projects hed over recent years. Pamea exhibited with Arte and Arte in 2007 and in 2008 as a specia exhibit within an educationa project with Itaian Coeges. Esewhere in 2010, Pamea has exhibited in Tokyo aongside the Japanese artist Asako Ishizaki, after a 6-month coaborative exchange in concept deveopment, and is currenty part of Genius Loci at Gaeria X in Bratisava, Sovak Repubic. CULTURE NIGHT On Cuture Night, the Ceramics Department had a constant stream of visitors. Some tried their hand at throwing pots on the potter s whee, whie others decorated pots with sgraffito, where they scratched through a ayer of white sip to revea the dark cay underneath. At the other side of the studio, visitors busied themseves making patterns with cooured pieces of cay on white cay and formed dishes with it. Others pressed deicate petas of paper cay together to form a patchwork. Throughout the evening dozens made teeny tiny teapots which now form a beautifu coourfu herd. Fun was had by a. Cutura Night paper cay patchwork. A herd of Teapots. 69

70 Wandesford Gaery Since ast June, the Wandesford Quay Gaery has been rented by CIT for use as a city-centre gaery, exhibition space, and centre of earning The reaisation of such a faciity resonates we with the Institute s desire to provide reevant, outward ooking educationa opportunities for its students, and to continue to contribute to the creative and inteectua ife of the city. Art and design students now have a professiona environment in which to experience a fu range of earning activities: exhibition, curation, engagement with audience, critica practice and not east intimate exposure to the work of oca, nationa and internationa artists. The phiosophy of the new space is one of recognition of creative expression within a discipines and one of encouragement of earning. It is therefore particuary appropriate that the venue opened with an exhibition of work by three graduating students from the Master of Arts research programme: Liz Cuinane, Mags Geaney and Roseanne Lynch. Gicee print on meta by Roseanne Lynch. An exhibition of recent work by Frank Phean and Dona Mooney ran from the 15th September 2nd October. This exhibition was faciitated by Christine Pybus and curated by Harry Mc Cormick. Dona Mooney Frank Phean 70

71 Positive Space An exhibition Positive Space featuring Ceramics from CCAD graduates, Sara Fynn and Nuaa O Donovan, ran from 6th August 28th August. The exhibition faciitates an emerging diaogue between the organic and manufactured, the singuar object and its arrangement, the vesse as negative space and object as its positive counterpart. Sara and Nuaa hod studios in Cork and exhibit widey nationay and internationay. Mutua exhibitions in 2010 incude Ceramic Art London at The Roya Coege of Art, London; Coect at The Saatchi Gaeries presented by the Crafts Counci of Ireand and Materia Poetry an exhibition of contemporary objects from Ireand, American Irish Historica Society, New York, curated by Brian Kennedy. in an attempt to find the right words consists of over 2000 bronze cast pencis which appear to have been aunched (dart-ike) onto the wa. It is a new permanent pubic art instaation by James Hayes at The Bemuet Arts Centre, Áras Inis Guaire, County Mayo. James Hayes, artist and ecturer at the CCAD said of the artwork, The tip of the penci touches the white wa as a penci woud ordinariy touch paper. The pencis are poised, yet no mark has been made and the pencis remain frozen in this position. By casting mutipe pencis in bronze I draw on the wa using the pencis themseves, they form a pattern, or a type of arge scae drawing. The pencis unduate across the ong horizonta wa in an amost neurotic fashion, coming together in custers and dispersing again. The work brings together various expressions of creativity, incuding ideas, written memories and aspirations from a number of participants. The first mark one makes is often made with a penci. Tease by Nuaa O Donovan Protected Vesses by Sara Fynn 2010 CIT CRAWFORD DEGREE SHOW Fractas, the 18th Annua CIT Crawford Coege of Art and Design Degree Show for BA (Hons) Degree students, was officiay aunched by scuptor Vivienne Roche, on the 18th June. A highight of the midsummer exhibition caendar in Cork, it featured work from 52 students across a broad range of discipines. The exhibition gives a panorama of artistic concepts and approaches which are being executed in a wide range of different media. A ong tradition of painting and scupting exceence seems to be opening more and more to new media, as amost haf of this year s students are choosing to express themseves in a ess traditiona way. In genera, the common muti-discipinary approaches among CCAD students seem to embody the Coege s unwritten poicy of an open, department-free, environment where one is not obiged to choose between the discipines. Many of the present graduates do not fit easiy into any of the forma, or even, conceptua categories. This approach in turn contributes to this year s unofficia patron science. In a remote yet meaningfu way Fractas as a chosen name for this show commemorates the origina pans of the Crawford s founding fathers one hundred years ago, who intended their new educationa centre in Cork to marry science and art under one roof, as the Crawford Municipa Technica Schoo. Ciprian Hopirtean exhibits To ceebrate twenty years of biatera dipomatic reations between Romania and Ireand, the Embassy of Romania organised two cutura events in May: a concert at CIT CSM and an art exhibition in CIT s Bishopstown Campus. Artist Ciprian Hopirtean was born in Romania in 1977 and he graduated in Fine Arts in Since 2009 he has ived and worked in Carraroe, Gaway, where he has found inspiring human and geographic andscapes that chaenge him to find their hidden vaue. The tite of this exhibition, Amost Beyond speaks of the importance attached by the artist to the hidden image, of his concern for the hidden side of things, the mood, the power to go beyond appearances and to see deepy. On the 7th May, His Exceency, Mr Iuian Buga, Romanian Ambassador to Ireand, officiay opened an exhibition of paintings by Romanian artist Ciprian Hopirtean. 71

72 CAMPUS 10 Linz, Austria Representing CIT at CAMPUS 10 Aan Meany, John Constant, Ian O Leary, Niamh Hutton and Laura Kacinauskaite. In September 2010, students from the Department of Media Communications participated in a major Digita Media exhibition at Ars Eectronica in Linz, Austria. The CAMPUS exhibition is an annua event that takes pace during the Ars Eectronica Festiva, where educationa Institutes are chosen to exhibit their work aongside professiona designers and practicing artists. The department was hugey honoured to be chosen to participate in this exhibition, as recent participating intuitions incude; MIT, Boston (2009), University of Tokyo (2008), Institute Industria Design and Media, Aarau Switzerand (2007), University of Art & Design Hesinki (2006) and Srishti Schoo of Art Design and Technoogy, India (2005). At CAMPUS 10 it was the first time, since its inception 25 years ago, that two institutes exhibited together. CIT coaborated with Hochschue Darmstadt Germany, who share the jointy accredited programmes of Bacheor of Arts in Mutimedia and Master of Arts in Media Design. The theme of CAMPUS 10 was Expanded Interfaces, this was chosen by the curators of the exhibition (CIT: Trevor Hogan, h_da: Sabine Breitsameter, Torsten Fröhich, and Caudia Soeer-Eckert). The assignment was to reconceptuaise and reinvent human-machine communication and the individua eements of interaction it entais in a arge-scae scenario anaogous to expanded cinema. Students deveoped user interfaces for new media products that body go beyond conventiona ones avaiabe now. Representing CIT were Aan Meany, Laura Kacinauskaite, Ian O Leary, Niamh Hutton and John Constant. Aan s project, entited Ambient Knowedge investigated the use of Ambient Information Systems to inform house owners of the energy usage of their homes. Aan presented five amps whose coour was being controed, in rea time, by the energy usage of five different houses in Cork City. Laura created Ceannacht, a project that chaenged existing Irish stereotypes by comparing current nonnationa and internationa views of Ireand peope. The other project from Cork students was Presto, Ian, John and Niamh created a pubic interactive digita experience, which provides peope of a eves of artistic abiity with a patform to express themseves through the creation of digita visuas, and aow them to exhibit this work in a pubic space. The exhibition proved to be a great success for both CIT and Hochschue Darmstadt and was visited by over fifty thousand peope. The students aso benefited greaty from the experience, two of the projects (Ambient Knowedge and Presto) have since been asked to exhibit in Paris, France and Sydney, Austraia. BA Design Communications Exhibition: DNA It s What We Are Made Of The BA Design Communications 3rd year students undertook a student initiated exhibition, which was organised and panned by the students, aong with ecturers Vaerie Renehan and Gwen Lettis. The exhibition, tited DNA It s What We Are Made Of, demonstrated work undertaken over the course of their fina year. The work was dispayed from 28th May - 1st June 2010 in the Nexus Student Centre Gaery. An opening evening took pace on the 28th May, which marked the successfu competion of their BA in Design Communications. The work incuded Experimenta Typography, Branding, Promotion, Teevision Advertising, Digita and Narrative Image and Web Design. Congratuations to a students. 72

73 Graphic Design Industry Advisory Award 2010 The Graphic Design Industry Advisory Award ran in Semester 2 as part of the BA Design Communications (3rd year) Professiona Practice modue. The project was coordinated and supervised by Industry Representatives, Frank Dowing and Jim Horgan, aong with modue ecturers, Vaerie Renehan and Steven Young. The project divided students into competing groups, in which they were asked to design a Teevision Advertising Campaign, either for or against Incineration. Working cosey with the Industry Representatives and each other, the teams worked towards a fina forma presentation. The aim of the project was to meet the requirements of the cient in designing a creative soution that communicated a cear visua message to its target market. The winning team in 1st pace, who were against Incineration, designed an empathetic soution that tod the story of a young gir in the future ooking back to the present. The campaign spoke directy to parents as it captivated the audience with its cever script and emotive tone, visuay enhanced with focused and direct imagery. Congratuations to a invoved and specificay to the winning teams. Jim Horgan and Frank Dowing presented the awards: 1st Pace - Bobby Cashman, David Hurihy, Michee McKeon and Heena Long. 2nd Pace - Diane Liey, Rory O Brien and Kevin Corcoran. 3rd Pace - Dona Cotter, Joanne Rogers, Dawn O Suivan and Maura Dineen. 73

74 Design Week 2010 The Department of Media Communication was deighted to host the Institute of Designers of Ireand (IDI) Graduate Design Awards which ran from the 1st - 7th of November. The Exhibition was one of the many events taking pace around the country for Design Week. Rose McGrath, Head, Department of Media Communications stated, It was a peasure to be invoved in bringing this exhibition to Cork, especiay to the Wandesford Quay Gaery which has recenty been acquired by CIT. The exhibition had a fabuous coection of exciting design work created by graduates from many of the design programmes nationwide. As an IDI counci member I beieve it was important to participate in Design Week and by hosting the Exhibition we had an opportunity to ceebrate the creativity of Ireand s upcoming designers here in Cork City. The exhibition was opened by the President of the IDI, Mr Derek McGarry, on the 2nd November. Mr McGarry said, The IDI was thried to have had the opportunity to take the very best work from this year s crop of graduate designers to Cork for this exhibition at the Wandesford Quay Gaery. It is extremey important to the IDI that we do everything we can to promote the innovative work of contemporary designers from a four corners of Ireand. This year we received approximatey 120 entry submissions from more than 22 design courses. It is particuary rewarding to see such a high quaity seection of designs from each of the five mutidiscipinary categories in this year s competition. It is aways very interesting to watch potentia design trends. Whie in 2009 we saw an increase in the number of medica device design entries in the product category, this year we received a wonderfu coection of entries from the craft sector. As 2011 is the Word Year of Craft, and with the Word Crafts Counci visiting Ireand in June, the increase in high caibre craft work is particuary timey. As work is about to start on the north Dubin Metro inking the airport to Dubin City Centre, the innovative Dubin City Transport Map by Aris Venetikidis s, from the Nationa Coege of Art and Design, sets out to address the evident need for an integrated design soution to assist commuters and tourists in Ireand s capita city. However, the work goes further than this by providing tremendous hep to city panners and transportation companies. The pane of jurors agreed that this entry had significant design vaue that sets it apart from a of the other entries in this year s competition. The exhibition contained design graduate awarded work in; Visua Communications, Mutimedia, Interior Design, Product Design, Textie and Fashion Design. Derek McGarry, IDI President and Ora Fynn, Head, CIT Crawford Coege of Art & Design. Jennifer Sattery NCAD Graduate Textie Designer and Gwen Lettis, Lecturer, Department of Media Communications Department - Exhibition Coordinator. Pau Woods, DIT Graduate, New Media Designer the work of Marco Vernaschi Award winning Press Photographer Marco Vernaschi gave a tak organised by Phi Curtin, Lecturer, Department of Media Communications, on the 14th October in the Rory Gaagher Theatre. 74 Award winning Press Photographer Marco Vernaschi

75 Design Students Re Imagine Cork [Inside] Outside Promoting a that Cork has to offer and enhancing the city environment through the innovative use of mutimedia, graphic design and interior architecture was a key focus of this Exhibition. Entited [Inside] Outside, this exhibition dispayed the work of fina year students in Mutimedia, Visua Communications and Interior Architecture. It was officiay opened by Barry Sheehan of the Institute of Designers of Ireand. The exhibition showcased the work of 45 students who showcased their fina year projects to the pubic in the Nexus Student Centre in the Bishopstown Campus on the 6th June Incuded among the exhibits were: a new iphone app and accompanying website for tourists visiting Cork city for the first time, a dark, fantasy history/cookbook showcasing the roe of the Engish Market in the history of the city, a mutimedia instaation that aows peope to create digita art in pubic spaces, and branding for a new reading and book festiva in Cork that highights the city cutura heritage. Among the topics and themes expored by the Interior Architecture students were a redesign of Mahon Point Shopping Centre, the design of a Schoo of Architecture for CIT, the creation of a city centre hoste at Victoria Cross, a residentia community centre within the ruins of Chares Fort, Kinsae, and a hote from the pans of Curaheen Hospita. Whie not part of any of the students briefs it is heartening to see Cork city and county pay such a key roe in their work. They care greaty for their city and this is refected in the creative and innovative work that they have produced, commented Rose McGrath. MA in Media Design - Aan Meany BA (Honours) in Visua Communications - Gemma Power It is inspiring to see the range of work by these young designers across a of the discipines. The focus on design in CIT, and in Cork, is significanty enhanced as wi be evident by anyone who visits this exhibition, commented Katherine Keane, Head, Department of Architecture in CIT. BSc (Honours) in Interior Architecture - Audrey OConnor 75

76 Tom Dennehy retires Tom Dennehy s retirement function was certainy a night to remember. It was hed on the evening of Thursday, 19th November, 2009 in the Kingsey Hote. This wi be remembered to many as the night Cork was fooded and so Tom s night proved to be memorabe in more ways than one. Tom and his famiy, as we as severa CIT staff members were stranded in the hote for a good 48 hours! It was a wonderfu ceebration of Tom s years with CIT and was fied with anecdotes and aughter. Tom joined the City of Cork VEC in He moved to the Bishopstown campus when Cork Regiona Technica Coege was estabished there and worked through the time when it became CIT. In the past, Tom taught on many programmes and taught a wide variety of subjects incuding Communications in various Departments as we as Heritage Studies with Tourism students. For many years, Tom was a ecturer in the Department of Socia and Genera Studies where he taught on subjects such as Persona Deveopment, Professiona Deveopment and Therapeutic Care to Socia Care students. Tom picture here with Pat Keeher, Director Emeritus, CIT; Minister Batt O Keeffe; Damien Courtney; and Jim Wash. Tom is a perpetua student himsef and was constanty invoved in his own persona deveopment and acquired a number of additiona quaifications during his many fufiing years in CIT. He was activey invoved in the CIT Drama group, acting and directing in many productions especiay during the 1980s and 1990s. Tom was we known for ensuring the ibrary amassed a wide range of iterature and reguary competed book order forms for noves, drama and poetry as we as more core curricuar materia. As a coeague and friend, we wi miss his wonderfu humour and insights. We wish Tom a the best in his retirement. As an avid and very taented artist, there is no doubt that his days wi be fied. Tom with his wife, Maireád and chidren, Josephine and Tadhg. Sports and Societies day 21st September Ciarán Sheehan with Carme Coins, Deveopment Office and Vera Barrett, REAP, Strategic Innovation Fund, supporting the Cork Footba A Ireand champions. Shane Crowey and Megan Ain showcasing the African Drumming Society. 76 Sports & Societies Day took pace in the Nexus, Student Centre with over eighty cubs and societies on dispay throughout the day. The Circus Society was awarded Best Stand for its dramatic exhibitions and jugging dispays. There were over three hundred students present in the Nexus to wecome CIT student Ciarán Sheehan, who hoisted the Sam McGuire Cup in ceebration of the fantastic Cork A Ireand victory.

77 SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS Minister Opens New Sports Compex On the 4th June, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Mr Batt O Keeffe, TD, opened the new 1.7 miion stand at the athetics track. The Stand was constructed with the aid of a Sports Capita Programme Grant, and co-funded by CIT, Cork City Counci and Cork County Counci. The deveopment comprises a 1,070-seated stand compete with athetes warm-up area beneath the stand, finished with an artificia running track surface and ong jump. There is aso a separate two-storey buiding for event operations. Cork City Sports was hed in the new faciities on the 3rd of Juy. Speaking at the aunch, CIT President, Dr Brendan Murphy, said: This track is an integra part of the overa sports structure of the Institute and this new stand adds tremendousy to the muti sport campus ethos of CIT. As we as catering for the competitive athetes who participate in CIT s many sporting Cubs, The Institute aso has a big emphasis on participation, and on sport for fun, and this is refected in the growing numbers who take part. The Sports Office runs a number of activities such as Aerobics, Circuit Training and Fit for Life Programmes. In addition to the new stand area, CIT s sports faciities on campus incude: Batt O Keeffe TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Innovation speaking at the officia opening with pupis from St Luke s schoo in Dougas on the track. A 1,200 seat fuy-covered stadium that houses a two-tier gymnasium, meeting room, doctor s room and six dressing rooms that compements a foodight Sand Based Muti Purpose Pitch; A Muti Purpose Sports Ha incorporating a state of the art Gym & Weights Room; Three fu size Soccer Pitches, two Rugby Pitches and Two GAA Pitches; A Foodit Fu Size Astro Turf Pitch and a Synthetic Surfaced Tennis Court; A 3km Jogging Track encompassing the campus; A further Muti-Purpose Sports ha, with swimming, diving and saiing faciities at the Nationa Maritime Coege of Ireand in Ringaskiddy; As we as a these, just off the main CIT campus there is a eisure and recreationa compex with two swimming poos, Gym and Muti-purpose area. Cork City Lord Mayor Dara Murphy; Dr Barry O Connor, Registrar & Vice President for Academic Affairs, CIT; Michae Deaney, Vice President for Deveopment, CIT; Batt O Keeffe TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Innovation; Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; Cork County Lord Mayor Derry Canty; and Noreen Murphy, Cork County Athetics Board. 77

78 SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS Centre back Kye Smith Soccer A Team Munster Champions The Soccer A Team was crowned the Premier South Division winners for CIT managed to overturn eague favourites UCC and UL before finay seaing the tite with a comprehensive 4-0 win over Coáiste Stiofáin Naofa (CSN). Waterford IT and IT Traee aso compete in this eague. CIT started its campaign with a tough away fixture in UL, but won comfortaby with a 2-0 victory through goas from Cork City payers Brendan Cuen and Wiie Heffernan. CIT s next task was the visit of arch rivas UCC. The game was a tight affair, contested by two exceent footbaing teams. CIT managed to grab a ate and deserved goa through bursary recipient James O Suivan to put them top of the eague. Next up was IT Traee; this ooked an easier task on paper, but in this extremey competitive eague that produces a very high standard year after year no fixture can be taken for granted. CIT squandered a few eary chances and were punished on the counter attack. CIT sipped up for the first time with a 1-0 oss but remained top of the tabe. A tough tacking physica Waterford IT side were the next visitors to CIT. It became a tough contest but CIT s sheer cass prevaied in the end and the outcome was a comfortabe 2-0 win with goas from Gavin Moore and Eric Kennedy. CIT then traveed to CSN to take on their soccer academy. Ony a win woud guarantee that CIT woud secure the eague tite. This game became a no contest within 20 minutes as CIT few out of the traps and into a 3-0 ead, James O Suivan grabbed two goas, whie feow bursary recipient Coin Kearney got on the score sheet before Seán Foey rounded off the 4-0 victory. An incredibe accompishment and it aso has to be noted that CIT ony conceded one goa in these five games. Goakeeper Wesey Tong and centre backs Kye Smith and John Forest were outstanding and consistent throughout the campaign. Other exceent performers incuded Captain Brian Murphy, Mark Kearney and Shane Twomey. We done to manager Steven Neiand and the ads for a remarkabe achievement for CIT Soccer. Victorious Intervarsities Squad On the 26th October, CIT caimed a memorabe first ever win at the men s Irish Hockey Intervarsities at Befied, UCD defeating Dubin City University 2-1 in the fina. Their victory wi ive ong in the memory, particuary that of Captain Roger Gray, who bagged the second-haf doube to secure victory and finished the tournament with six goas to his name. We done to team manager, Aan Good and a the team. New Rugby Officer appointed Brendan O Connor is the new Rugby Deveopment Officer to CIT. Contact detais T: E: rugby.officer@cit.ie Karting News The Karting Cub took home the honours in the second round of the CUSAI Karting Championships. Eric Canan, who had secured the fast ap in round 1, added round 2 to his name, as he recorded the fastest ap on route to a fantastic win on his home track. Kevin O Conne finished in third spot, sandwiching Shane McGrath of DCU in second pace. In the team event, CIT s A Team is eading the way at the haf way stage with 103 points. DCU A are seven points behind, with DIT A in third pace with a gap of 22 points between them and the eaders. DIT wi be hosting the third round of the championship, provisionay pencied in for February in Newry, with the fina round schedued for March 25th in the new White River track in Drogheda. 78

79 SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS SPORT NEWS Novice Boxing Intervarsities A very successfu Novice Boxing Intervarsities was hosted by CIT on the 12th - 14th November. Eoin Murphy, Captain and Chairman of the CIT Boxing Cub, was crowned Novice Superweight Intervarsities champion. Eoin aso won Siver at the University Championships in 2009 at Heavyweight. GAA News Another hectic year ies ahead for the CIT Student GAA Cub as the 2010/11 Academic Season is now fuy up and running. The senior huring and footba teams have both had a change of management for the coming season. Graduate and former Fitzgibbon Captain Pat Mucahy (Newtownshandrum and Cork) wi take over the reins of the Senior Hurers. To date the Hurers have had a ivey opening to their eague with some credibe performances and with many of the payers sti tied up with Cub duties they are hopefu of a good run in the Fitzgibbon Cup Campaign. The Senior Footbaers have changed things around this year with Tony Leahy back at the hem. He wi be aby assisted by Liam Hodnett, Brian Herihy and Mick Dion. This is a very experience seection committee and with a good opening to their eague wi be hopefu to bring back the Sigerson Cup to Lee side. With a number of the Cork Payers who captured A Ireand Success avaiabe to the pane, as we as having a number of payers from ast year s Fresher side that reached the Div 1 Fina, they wi be confident in giving it a good shot. The fresher s team ook promising with a tota of five first year teams (3 Footba and 2 Huring) entered into competition. In Huring, the Division 1 side had victories in their opening 3 games whie their footba counterparts had the same and the 2nd and 3rd strings a ook to be very comfortabe in their groups. Pat Spratt (Footba) and Frank Fannery (Huring) are back in charge again this year. The Institute aso fieds Intermediate and Junior Huring and Footba teams, so its action a round for the Student GAA Cub this year. There is a vibrant women s section of the Student GAA Cub. In Ladies Footba, Ross Corcoran and Biy O Connor are managing the side who have gained promotion to Division 2 of the Senior League and who wi be trying hard to go one better than ast year and win the Lynch Cup (Having won the Lynch Shied ast year). In Camogie, ast year s seection committee of Nia O Mahony and Barry Day are back again and they are joined by Charotte Kearny who graduated from CIT ast year. The Cub wi compete in Ashbourne, a status they have maintained since winning the Purce Cup in 2001 and they wi aso pay in Division 1 of the Senior Camogie League. crossword soutions The GAA Cub aso created another piece of history recenty when it joined forces with rivas UCC to pay Austraia in the visitors warm up game for the Senior Internationa Series. It was an opportunity for the students from both coeges to do their bit for charity with proceeds going to Aan Kerin s Zambie Fund (UCC) and the Brother of Charity Eary Intervention Centre Baincoig (CIT s GAA Cub adoptive charity). Athough the visitors won we on the evening it was a great showcase for the work done and indeed the taent on dispay at third eve. With a very active Cub, it can often be a ogistica nightmare to ensure that a these teams train and pay, the faciities in CIT make it possibe to aow a this to happen. The significant investment by the Institute into the sporting faciities is a huge factor in enticing the students to get invoved and the student GAA Cub is very gratefu to a invoved in making sure that funding continues. The cub is aso gratefu for the cooperation of the academic and administrative staff at the Institute. No activity coud and woud take pace if it were not for this support. It shows great maturity and wisdom by a those invoved to not just acknowedge, but to physicay back up the notion of hoistic deveopment of its students. Whie academic deveopment sti remains a priority and is openy encouraged and supported, society wi benefit from having a student who is given the opportunity to take ownership and pride in a aspects of their ives. The Student GAA Cub is a rea patform for this to happen. GAA CIT Senior 7 s Side 2010 ACROSS 1 Snooperscope 8 Embargo 9 Backog 11 Epitome 12 Soaria 13 Shark 14 Asterisks 16 Spherica 19 Rige 21 Earmuff 23 Sparrow 24 Set sai 25 Outier 26 Doube header DOWN 1 Sabrina 2 Oarock 3 Ptoemaic 4 Rebus 5 Cacker 6 Poaris 7 Seven Sisters 10 Gass bowers 15 Teescope 17 Horatio 18 Rhubarb 19 Reacted 20 Garnier 22 Fase 79

80 The Cork County and City Enterprise Boards Prizes Vaued at 10,000 Shed ight on your ideas to harness a piece of the prize. Your invention/business pan can ead to a chance to earn a share of the 10,000 prize money. The Cork County and City Enterprise Boards CIT Prize for Innovation is a scheme that awards cash prizes to those whose inventions and business ideas are most creative, nove, innovative, and ikey to succeed in the marketpace. Students can use a project that forms part of their coursework for the year as their entry to the competition. Working in teams or individuay students can attend free workshops that guide them in putting a business pan together. The prize fund is spit into the foowing categories: 1st Prize and coveted tite of CIT Entrepreneur(s) of the Year = 4,000 Most Technicay Innovative = 2,000 Best Business Pan = 1,000 Best Presentation Pitch = 1,000 Post graduate Award = 1,000 Best Exhibition Stand on Innovation Day = 1,000 CIT has striven to put entrepreneurship at the forefront and this year appointed its first ever Entrepreneur in Residence, Kieran Moynihan whose roe incudes seeding the undergraduate and post graduate community with entrepreneurship and eadership skis. Kieran wi aso sit on the adjudication pane of the competition that wi take pace on Innovation Day (Tuesday 8th March 2011) where the tite of CIT Entrepreneur(s) wi be awarded and the prize money presented. CIT wi aso host the Cork Schoos Enterprise Programme to coincide with Innovation Day. The Cork Schoos Enterprise Programme aims to educate second eve students about the reaities of setting up and running a business. Further information and reevant documentation are avaiabe at Sponsored by