Ballineen Foróige

Young Engineer 2018

Kick-off meeting
20th January 2018
 Sep 2010 to Aug 2015
BE Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering at UCD, Dublin

Apr 2012
Spring Intern at Goldman Sachs, London

Jun 2012 to Aug 2012

Summer Intern at American Chemistry Council, Washington D.C.
Rebecca Dwyer
Jun 2013 to Aug 2014
Undergraduate Process Engineer at Eli Lilly, Kinsale

Sep 2015 to present

Bioprocess Engineer at Eli Lilly, Kinsale

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Apr 2012 to Sep 2012 Sep 2016 to Aug 2017
Washington Ireland Programme PRO at Cork Orienteering Club

Sep 2012 to May 2013

Mar 2017 to present
Student Ambassador at UCD
Enniskeane Camogie Club
Dec 2012 to Nov 2014
US Embassy Youth Council Oct 2017 to present
CrossFit at Howling Heart

Dec 2017 to present

Leader at Ballineen Foróige
What is it?
Engineers week is a week-long festival of
nationwide events celebrating the world of
engineering in Ireland. The annual event is
coordinated on a national basis by Engineers
Ireland’s STEPS programme funded under
Science Foundation Ireland’s “Discover”
programme.
When is it?
24th February to 2nd March 2018
Who coordinates the week?
The Engineers Ireland’s STEPS
team coordinates Engineers Week.

What are the aims?

How can I find out more?
Visit: www.steps.ie
Visit: www.engineersireland.ie
Visit: www.engineersweek.ie
1. To encourage young people, teachers and
parents to explore the fun world of engineering.
2.To generate interest and enthusiasm for
engineering in young people’s everyday lives.
3.To inspire young people to explore engineering
career paths.
4.To highlight the diverse opportunities
engineering has to offer.
 Exhibition and prize giving: Registered event on
Friday 23rd February 8:30pm the official Engineers
Week calendar

Groups of 2 or 3 6-week programme

(participants decide groups) open to all younger and
older club members

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Half an hour per week dedicated to the project every Friday

night (Week 2 to Week 5 incl.) from 8:00 to 8:30pm:
• Check-in: Presentation of work done the previous week
• Discussion: What is expected for next week?
• Activity: Hands-on engineering challenge or film screening
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WEEK 1: 20th January WEEK 4: 9th February
• Find a problem • Build a prototype
• Kick-off meeting: • Film screening:
Project introduction “Engineering Our World”

WEEK 2: 26th January WEEK 5: 16th February

• Understand the problem • Produce a poster
• Film screening: • Hands-on challenge:
“IDEO Shopping Cart” Announced on the night

WEEK 3: 2nd February WEEK 6: 23rd February

• Design a solution • Present your work
• Hands-on challenge: • Exhibition:
Announced on the night Open to the public!
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Project example 1 Project example 2 Project example 3
PROBLEM PROBLEM
PROBLEM
A person wearing glasses is A farmer carries heavy
A dog has nowhere to do his
uncomfortable when lying buckets of milk uphill
business in a townhouse or
down on the couch watching from the milking parlour
apartment without a garden.
TV or in bed reading a book to the holding tank twice
The idea of having an open
or looking at their phone a day every day all year
litter box that would produce
because their glasses are long.
strong odours is not
constantly squashed against appealing to the homeowner
their face. who is constantly having to
SOLUTION clean up the mess!
SOLUTION SOLUTION
Design a pumped piping
Design a “glasses pillow”: Design an automatic, self-
system to automatically
a pillow with a wedge cut cleaning potty pad that
transfer the milk from the
out of it that allows the automatically wraps and
milking parlour to the
glasses to sit comfortably seals waste so the home
holding tank relieving the
so they don’t squash is odour free. Consider
farmer of his daily
against the person’s face. the environment by
struggle.
making it eco-friendly
too!
PROJECT PROJECT PROJECT
This project could involve: This project could involve: This project could involve:
• Experiencing the awkwardness of lying down • Experiencing the struggle of carrying heavy • Talking to dog-owners about the practicality of
while wearing glasses, how difficult it is to see the buckets uphill twice a day every day. owning a dog without access to a garden.
television or the book or phone through the • Thinking about the amount of milk that would • Researching solutions already in existence,
frame of the lenses, understanding the struggle! need to be transferred (talk to family members thinking about what they are lacking and how you
• Building a prototype out of soft materials, and/or friends or neighbours who are farmers), could make them better.
perfecting the size and shape of the pillow, trying working out the size of the pipe and pump you • Building a prototype using Lego and other
it out, seeing if it works. would need materials, trying it out with plasticine or water –
• Thinking about how practical it would be to bring • Building a 3D model using plastic piping or does it work?
your idea to market, what it would cost to bamboo – could you take it further and make your • Discovering what materials absorb odours the
manufacture 1 unit, how many units you would own small-scale pump too? best – how easy is it to source these materials?
need to produce to make a profit, what price • Deciding how practical it would be to implement • Gauging interest in your product – would dog-
point you would go for and how you could your solution and what kind of materials you owners buy it if it was on the market? Could dogs
promote and advertise your product. would need if you were to build it for real. be trained to use it?
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Problem
Organisation
solving

Project Report
Creativity
management writing

Design Teamwork Presentation

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Site tour at
Eli Lilly Kinsale
Presentation of projects to
National book engineers at Eli Lilly
tokens