02/03/2016

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Mayor Sarah Holland officially launches South Dublin County Engineers Week 2016

On Monday February 29th 2016, Mayor Sarah Holland officially launched South Dublin County Engineers Week 2016.

For the eight year in succession, South Dublin County Council is hosting events for local primary and secondary students as part of Engineers Week. This is a nationwide event coordinated by Engineers Ireland as part of their STEPS to Engineering program. The aim of the week is to positively promote engineering as a career and to create an awareness of the wonderful, life-enhancing and exciting challenges that engineers are involved in and responsible for. In addition, the nurturing of young engineering talent has been widely recognized as a vital part of our economic recovery.

Engineers Week has been a resounding success for South Dublin County Council and our partners IT Tallaght, PM Group, Vilicom and Xilinx. Since 2009, students from schools all over the County have taken part in workshops based at RUA RED South Dublin County Art Centre, The County Library, IT Tallaght, and Tallaght Stadium. Over the years we have hosted thousands of students from schools throughout South Dublin County, with workshops being organized and conducted on a voluntary basis by engineers from all five partner organisations.

In addition to the workshops and shows, participants will have an opportunity to talk to academics and students from IT Tallaght, and to professional engineers from South Dublin County Council, PM Group, Vilicom and Xilinx about what engineers do and how engineering is for everyone in the community.

Speaking at the launch, Mayor Holland reflected on the theme of this year’s Engineers Week ‘Engineering for the Future’ and the importance of encouraging and promoting engineering as a career to the students of South Dublin County. In her speech Mayor Holland said ‘…we have first class engineers working and teaching in our County and because of this we are fortunate enough to be in a position to help our children fulfil their dreams. We have a duty to give these young people the best opportunity we can to thrive and in doing so, to help our economy to recover and to consider how a career in Engineering would also enable them to contribute positively to their local community.’

Also in attendance at the launch of Engineers Week were William Grimson FIEI, President of Engineers Ireland, Thomas Stone, President IT Tallaght, Frank Kennedy, Director of Operations (Ireland) PM Group, Sean Keating, CEO Vilicom and Peng Lim, Programme Manager, Xylinx Ireland.

-ENDS-

Notes to Editor:

For details of our activities and more information about events nationwide, please log on to www.engineersweek.ie or contact Caitriona Lambert, Senior Executive Engineer at South Dublin County Council on 086 850 6771 / clambert@sdublincoco.ie .

For more information on the nationwide events taking place, please see www.engineersweek.ie

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  Launch of Engineers Week 2016
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  Launch of Engineers Week 2016