Engineering who's who

daveirl

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Atreides

First year engineering TCD

Woden

4th year chemistry/experimental physics ucd

oh and carrying on from daveirl i'd like all engineers on boards to post up there course and college and people from other science related disciplines also so we have a broad knowledge base to draw from.

Sev

1st year theoretical physics, TCD

Tree

Physics and applied maths, UCC

Raz

4th Year Electronic Engineering DCU

SideshowBob

Postgrad Electronic Engineer in UL with too much time on his hands!

dictatorcat

Postgrad, chemistry/materials science, TCD

Michael Collins

2nd year Elec. Engineering UCD

OSiriS

Graduate Aeronautical Engineer, UL

po0k

3rd Year Electronic Engineering - NUI, Galway

PhoenixRising

Mechanical Engineering, UCD.

stereo_steve

Electronic/electrical engineering - DIT Kevin Street

freekhead

4th year Electronic/Computer Engineering IT Blanchardstown

celticfc

2nd year Electro-Mechanical Engineering @ IT Tallaght

Vokes

4th year Mathematics & Computer Science, DIT Kevin St.

planck2

4th Year Theoretical physics, in some of datas classes

blondie83

3rd year elec eng UCD:ninja:

GuanYin

Originally posted by blondie83
3rd year elec eng UCD:ninja:

Mwuahahaha I know a few postgrads there, I shall be making enquires!

blondie83

Noooooooo!!!!!!!!! I knew I shouldn't have posted up here. With the extremly low amount of girls in elec they probably won't have any trouble finding me either! Who are they anyway, what are they like? what do they wear? I probably know a few of them from the labs. Actually come to think about it they prob don't like me very much, I'm always messing up my experiments!:(

dudara

Postgrad in Dept Elec Eng UCC, with a physics degree. So I would probably have taught daveirl labs when he was in first year.

GuanYin

Originally posted by blondie83
Noooooooo!!!!!!!!! I knew I shouldn't have posted up here. With the extremly low amount of girls in elec they probably won't have any trouble finding me either! Who are they anyway, what are they like? what do they wear? I probably know a few of them from the labs. Actually come to think about it they prob don't like me very much, I'm always messing up my experiments!:(

There are only three blonde girls in your year.
I doubt they'd be happy with me posting their names up.
I would imagine you're EF?

blondie83

Originally posted by syke
There are only three blonde girls in your year.

Right this is starting to get scary now:eek: I'm not EF though, keep on trying!

GuanYin

Originally posted by blondie83
Right this is starting to get scary now:eek: I'm not EF though, keep on trying!

Emm so dow to two
Ok erm....

Originally posted by blondie83
I'm always messing up my experiments!

I'm guessing SO, but otherwise C (by process of elimination)

blondie83

SO it is congratulations!!!

Although I've got to ask, who is C, what are her full initials, cos I'm wrecking my head here trying to figure out who it might be? It's actually slightly worrying that randomn ppl can find out so much about me, I swear Dublin/UCD is way too small! Hope your postgrad friends aren't too annoyed by me in labs. I think they think our class is fairly cynical for some reason. Ah well, take it easy all:p

Dave

Mechanical Engineering, UL

Sparks

Postgrad in Robotics in TCD (now writing up for my PhD), with computer/electronic engineering degree from TCD.

PrecariousNuts

Wow sparks I never knew you could go on to do robotics from the TCD course, what are the career prospects like for that? What are you doing your PhD on? Would one be able to get into areas like the latest Desert Challenge, that was on on the 13th?

Sparks

PN, there's no course on Robotics, but you can do a postgrad by research in just about any field. There's a research group for computer vision and robotics, so I approached one of the lecturers attached to it and asked. There's a similar group in UCD. Career prospects - well, for robotics, there aren't so many in industry, but if you're doing a PhD you pretty much only do it for to stay in research and/or academia anyway. My stuff is on a mathematical area related to Kalman filtering. And the Desert Challange was mainly a research challange for automated vehicle research - there's noone working on that area here that I know of at the moment, at least not on that scale. You could try Oxford or EPFL in switzerland though, on an Erasmus program.
There are other such competitions on a smaller scale like the Robocup competition and a few dozen others though, you occasionally see entries to those from Irish teams.

PrecariousNuts

Would you recommend the engineering course in TCD?

Is there much applied maths in it? I'm doing it (applied maths) at the moment and I love it.

What is Kalman filtering? Just so I can get a general idea on what sort of topics you PhD guys do.

Surely you could get a job at Sony or those other corporations, they seem to have a fairly decent bit of work going on with Aibo etc?

Sparks

Originally posted by PrecariousNuts
Would you recommend the engineering course in TCD?

Well, it depends.
If you're aiming for industry, UL might be better. If you're sure you want to be in the IT industry you don't want to do engineering. But as a general engineering course, it's pretty good. Just don't think that you'll be taught, so much as you'll be able to learn.

Is there much applied maths in it? I'm doing it (applied maths) at the moment and I love it.

First year applied maths was pretty much the leaving cert done with calculus. And you can say that engineering is applied maths at a fundamental level.

What is Kalman filtering? Just so I can get a general idea on what sort of topics you PhD guys do.

An introduction to the Kalman Filter

Surely you could get a job at Sony or those other corporations, they seem to have a fairly decent bit of work going on with Aibo etc?

Well, yes, if that is the area you're interested in. But you won't be able to publish your work (japanese robotics research is almost all corporate in nature).

PrecariousNuts

Oh god no, I definitely want to stay away from the IT sector. I've heard too many bad stories about it. Even if it is picking up again I think investors etc will still be wary.

I would be interested in things like the mars rovers etc and for some reason I associated robotics with those. Am I rite (right)? Would engineering be the right course to do? Or would I be better off with physics?

Thanks for your help, its been insightful so far.

Regards the Kalman filter, wasn't that exactly what the Desert Challenge was all about?

In 1960, R.E. Kalman published his famous paper describing a recursive solution to the discrete-data linear filtering problem. Since that time, due in large part to advances in digital computing, the Kalman filter has been the subject of extensive research and application, particularly in the area of autonomous or assisted navigation.

and the terrain problems too I suppose.

Marucci

B.E. Civil Engineering, UCD

dudara

Friend of mine here uses the Kalman filter in modelling harmonics in power systems

vinks

postgrad in high performance computing tcd, also spent some time doing the applied maths and theoretical physics msc between tcd, dit and dias. and a useful enough undergrad in applied maths and physics from dit

Gurgle

Me a part-time post-grad in DCU - Electronic Systems.
nearly done........

CaptainTeflon

was 1st year mechanical but now 1st year aeronautical engineer-
UL

Specky

Cool! An engineering board with electronic engineers in it! Not quite sure why it's spawned in the science group but...well as long as it's here that's all that's important.

Me?

Orginally qualified in electronics engineering after being a hobbyist since age 8. First job designing parts to make guided missles go boom when they get close to things that need to go boom, moved on to design in-car data terminals and associated wireless comms equipment, then ticket machines and the like, then back to nuclear submarines (working on fibre optic networking, ASIC design, transputers etc), then in to access control, audio processing and video controls, then into fibre-optic motion sensing, then systems for controlling electrical substations, then flight data recording, then back home to good old access control.

In all 20 years since leaving college all of which has been spent in analogue/digital electronic design, embedded hardware and real time software engineering, all sorts of environments and applications, now own and run my own business designing electronics for the security industry specifically access control, door entry and digital video products. We also design integrated systems for people too and occasionally still get dragged into the odd bit of design consultancy.

PlasseyMinstrel

1st (soon to be second) year Mechanical Engineering in UL.

And I know who you are, Captain Teflon. Mwa ha ha.

Molly

2nd elec eng ucc soon to be 3rd

Dave

Hmmm I too am 1st year mech eng in UL. How interesting....

Mr. Skeffington

4th Year Mech Eng, DIT Bolton Street

Mr. Skeffington

4th Year Mech Eng, DIT Bolton Street

murt

Electronic Engineer working abroad in ASIC design.

steveland?

Just finished first year in CECE in DCU and (depending on exam results), starting second year in dme (digital media engineering) next semester

bp_me

Starting 2nd year of manufacturing systems engineering in WIT in September.

CathyMoran

Finishing Electronic Systems/Telecom Eng Masters in DCU part time while working full time - is a labour of love as I did a degree in genetics, Masters in Food Science, Grad Dip in IT and Business and plan to do a Masters in Astronomy before doing more post grad in eng...

CarrigeenLad

I am an Engineer working in England for a car company. I spent 4 years on my Bachelor and 3 years on my Masters in UCD in Mechanical Engineering. I know a sucker for punishment.

Lennoxschips

4th year Civil Engineering, Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

Typedef

Job Title : "Embedded Software Design Engineer"

The company will pay for my BSC in Computer Science. I'm not too pushed.

civdef

Fire Engineer, Leeds.

Working in Ireland now.