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UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering is the largest of its type in Ireland and a World player in both research and education.

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@NovaUCD
NovaUCD
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LaNua Medical, an Irish medtech device start-up and a UCD spin-out, has successfully secured €6m in DTIF funding for a medtech project to be carried out in collaboration with Integer Holdings and @ucddublin. https://t.co/WXC4OiPwCp @DeptEnterprise @Entirl
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@DSRL_UCDMECH
Vikram Pakrashi
2 months
Excellent applications of Particle Image Velocimetry by Mohamed Heider (Vortex-Induced Vibrations), Hugh Irving (leading edge roughness aerodynamics) in European Fluid Dynamics Conference 2025! @AtlanticArea @SEAI_ie @Researchirel @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng #NexSys @MaREIcentre
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@FreemanFiona1
Fiona Freeman
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🚨 #NewPublicationAlert 🚨 Thrilled to share our lab’s first paper in #AdvancedTherapeutics @AdvPortfolio — led by Jordan! 🎉 We explored how STING agonists can boost chemo efficacy against Osteosarcoma. https://t.co/zkv6KsDl3N #OsteosarcomaResearch #ChildhoodCancerMonth🎗️
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@DSRL_UCDMECH
Vikram Pakrashi
2 months
Very happy to host Eurostruct2025 on best practice guidance on built infrastructure, bringing so many leaders under one roof of Dublin, with Jennifer Keenhan & Abdollah Malekjafarian. Amazing keynotes by the way! @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng
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@UCD_Research
UCD Research
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New study reveals that the human pelvis underwent two major structural innovations during evolution that enabled humans to walk on two legs. The study published in @Nature was led by @Harvard and included Prof Niamh Nowlan @UCD_Mech_Eng @UCD_Conway. https://t.co/nWME3JLVPb
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Nature - Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs.
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@DSRL_UCDMECH
Vikram Pakrashi
3 months
End of an amazing 17th IFAC Large Scale Complex Systems with Andrew Parnell's keynote on climate, RERITE workshop on reproducible research, industry discussion (energy, transport, manufacturing), networking & student awards. @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng Aasifa Rounak @BidishaQ
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@ucddublin
University College Dublin
7 months
♻️🔋 Huge congratulations to UCD Mechanical Engineering students Ruairí Collins, Eoin Duffy and Stephen Murphy on winning the second annual CleanerGrid Competition for their proposal showing how pumped hydro energy storage could help with managing wind and solar energy
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@DSRL_UCDMECH
Vikram Pakrashi
8 months
How to select features for defects in wind turbine blades? Compare performance of data driven methods? Excellent work by Mohadeseh Ashkarkalaei, Ramin Ghiasi, Abdollah Malekjafarian. Link: https://t.co/h6EhVltS6Z @SEAI_ie @Researchirel @MaREIcentre @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng
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@DSRL_UCDMECH
Vikram Pakrashi
8 months
Delighted to see Margaret McCallig shortlisted for Irish Healthcare Centre Awards: developing unit guideline for physical stressors in #neonatal #intensivecare, with ATU and Sligo Hospital. @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng @UCDBiomedEng
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@UCD_Mech_Eng
UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
8 months
📢 Join us for a talk by Dr. Conor O’Mahony (Tyndall, UCC) on Micro Transdermal Interface Platforms (MicroTIPs) 📅 Thurs, Mar 27 ⏰ 10 AM 📍 Room 135, Eng Building ☕ Tea & coffee after! #MedTech #BiomedicalEngineering #DrugDelivery #Microneedles #PrecisionHealthcare
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@UCD_Research
UCD Research
8 months
Joint funding of over €7M has been announced through the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme. Congratulations to Prof Niamh Nowlan @UCD_Mech_Eng @UCD_Conway, who will work with colleagues @UlsterUni & @Penn on one of the four projects funded. ➡️ https://t.co/TeIQ9PB8JH
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@DSRL_UCDMECH
Vikram Pakrashi
8 months
👏👏Nola Dubuisson. New paper on experimental modal analysis of hand-held burs for #biomedical applications, led by @RounakAasifa working with Stryker. Link: https://t.co/liwNl2fVu2 @I_Form_Centre @UCDmechanics @Researchirel @UCDBiomedEng @NUIMerrionSq @UCD_Mech_Eng
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@FreemanFiona1
Fiona Freeman
9 months
📣📣 Exciting opportunity! The Freeman lab is #hiring a fully funded (@ERC_Research) PhD student to develop a lung metastasis-on-a-chip model for osteosarcoma. Come join my team @UCD_Mech_Eng and @UCD_Conway to advance cancer research with cutting-edge bioengineering techniques!
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Vikram Pakrashi
9 months
Happy to receive the MRIA best R&D project of 2024 for @SEAI_ie funded #remotewind RDD/613 on/offshore windfarm monitoring. #tech #data #Science Jimmy Murphy @BreiffniF @BidishaQ @nolankucd @RounakAasifa @Abdollah_Malekj @JaksicVesna @MaREIcentre @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng
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@Mcelikin
Mert Celikin
9 months
We are hiring!   We are looking for a research engineer to join our team (The Materials Design and Processing Group) on the project towards Additive Manufacturing of Stainless-Steel tools for biomedical applications at University College Dublin.
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Vikram Pakrashi
10 months
How can vehicle #pitch help us detect #scour damage? Very happy to see this paper: https://t.co/g4i8xU6NCj led by Claire McGeown, David Hester, Eugene OBrien Chul-Woo Kim, Paul Fitzgerald being #editorschoice paper 2024. @UCD_Mech_Eng @UCDmechanics @Researchirel
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@phiiliipc
Philip Cardiff
10 months
Are you interested in working as a Postdoc with me at University College Dublin on developing finite volume methods for cardiovascular fluid-solid interaction simulations? Apply here (search for Job Ref 018140): https://t.co/XCSAbo1MeD #jobfairy @UCD_Mech_Eng @ERC_Research
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@AislingNiA
Aisling Ní Annaidh
10 months
Many congratulations @wentingShu0819 on this, your second paper from your PhD. Watch this space for #3!!
@UCDBiomedEng
UCD Biomedical Eng
10 months
Exciting new research published in @ActaBio led by @WentingShu0819 in co-supervision with @AislingNiA. This computational work helps illustrate that 'how' and for 'how long' drug coated microneedles are inserted into skin really matters (1/2)
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@ActaBio
Acta Biomaterialia
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Professor Eoin O'Cearbhaill: Multiphysics modelling of the impact of skin deformation and strain on microneedle-based transdermal therapeutic delivery @UCDBiomedEng @UCD_Mech_Eng @CharlesUCD @UCD_Conway https://t.co/HNx65VbI8H
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@DSRL_UCDMECH
Vikram Pakrashi
10 months
Important work ledby Andrew Whelan, @phiiliipc , Tian Tang:A Finite Volume Framework for Damage+Fracture Prediction in Wire Drawing @MaREIcentre @Bekaert @I_Form_Centre @SEAI_ie @AtlanticArea See: https://t.co/Lq3TCHdjtp This kind of work takes time. @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng
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