Two students from Cork Institute of Technology and IT Carlow were awarded top honours in the Engineers Ireland Innovative Student of the Year competition, sponsored by Siemens. The ceremony was held at the organisation’s head office in Dublin yesterday. The competition for final year third level students attending Engineers Ireland-accredited courses at level 7 and level 8.
Martin Evans from Cork IT won first prize in the Level 8 category for design and development of a scrum machine. Developed in associatio nwith Munster rugby, his project added additional performance management functionality over and above what the club had to work with.
In the Level 7 category, Nigel Morris from IT Carlow, won the category for Briquette Carousel, an industrial product designed to automatically bag wood waste briquettes for resale to the domestic market.
John Power, director general of Engineers Ireland (pictured), said: "The increase in the number of students taking higher level maths in the Leaving Certificate is extremely encouraging. It suggests students are finally starting to grasp the importance of maths and the sciences and how these subjects are a springboard to successful careers in dynamic areas such as engineering. This of course feeds into competitions like the Innovative Student Engineer of the Year Awards which showcases excellence and the best of Ireland’s young innovative minds. I would like to applaud to all of the participants in this year’s competition for their commitment, creativity and hard-work."
Michael O’Connor, communications manager, Siemens, said: "Innovation is about more than just creativity. It is about better or more effective products and systems, improving services or the application of new technologies. The entries in this year’s Engineers Ireland Innovative Student Engineer of the Year Awards have these characteristics in abundance."
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