UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

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. ucd.ie/innovation/new… @DeptEnterprise @Entirl

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

🚨 #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. doi.org/10.1002/adtp.2… #OsteosarcomaResearch #ChildhoodCancerMonth🎗️

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

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. nature.com/articles/d4158…

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

♻️🔋 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 variability. The Todhchaí Glas team claimed the top prize, taking home €6,000 for their team and €6,000 for the university. Run by EirGrid, Ireland’s electricity grid operator, the competition encourages third-level students to solve critical energy challenges with a focus on sustainability, efficiency and clean energy technologies. This year’s theme asked students to present a vision of what the growing energy sector will need to look like in 2050 to have sustainably achieved net-zero emissions.

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: lnkd.in/dxTTeCXt @SEAI_ie @Researchirel @MaREIcentre @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng

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

📢 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

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. ➡️ucd.ie/research/news/…

👏👏Nola Dubuisson. New paper on experimental modal analysis of hand-held burs for #biomedical applications, led by @RounakAasifa working with Stryker. Link: lnkd.in/dHhwiyj6 @I_Form_Centre @UCDmechanics @Researchirel @UCDBiomedEng @NUIMerrionSq @UCD_Mech_Eng

📣📣 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!

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

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. lnkd.in/ejZHaGTy

How can vehicle #pitch help us detect #scour damage? Very happy to see this paper: lnkd.in/dgVWmZhc led by Claire McGeown, David Hester, Eugene OBrien Chul-Woo Kim, Paul Fitzgerald being #editorschoice paper 2024. @UCD_Mech_Eng @UCDmechanics @Researchirel

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): lnkd.in/eKviXJ5P #jobfairy @UCD_Mech_Eng @ERC_Research

Many congratulations @wentingShu0819 on this, your second paper from your PhD. Watch this space for #3!!

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 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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: lnkd.in/dC4c5Cey This kind of work takes time. @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng