EGA Gold Medal Ceremony is Best Attended to Date

Last Monday August 31th was UCD Conferring Day for engineering and architectural graduates together with their proud parents and friends. Each year in advance of the main ceremony, the EGA host a prize winning event for the highest achievers in each discipline.

 

This was originally only involving EGA Gold Medals each sponsored by an engineering company - Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical and Biosystems Engineering. Increasingly there is now a far greater variety of specialisms eg Biomedical, Structures with Architecture, Business and Engineering. In addition there are also scholarships, travel bursaries, prizes donated by a large host of companies who all wish to endow UCD and its best students with coveted awards.

Left to Right: John Waldron, Chemical Engineering (father of Conor), Richard Jenkinson, Structural Engineering with Architecture,
Darragh Hanlon, Civil Engineering, Professor David Fitzpatrick, UCD Dean of Engineering, Shane Gubbins, Engineering with Business,
PJ Rudden, EGA President, Irene Danti Lopez, Cathy Swanton, Biomedical Engineering and Cillian Briody, Architecture

 

This year's EGA event was the best endowed and attended event to date with a total of 18 Awards to complement the 9 Gold Medals in Architecture and the principal Engineering disciplines - Civil, Structural with Architecture, Chemical, Electrical, Electronic, Biomedical, Mechanical, Engineering with Business. These medals were awarded to Cillian Briody, Darragh Hanlon, Richard Jenkinson, Conor Waldron, Irene Danti Lopez, Cathy Swanton, Niall Donnelly, Eanna McHugh and Shane Gubbins respectively.

 

The sponsoring companies of the Gold Medals were Arup (2 awards) for Architecture and  for Structural with Architecture, RPS for Civil, BMS for Chemical and Process, SSE Airtricity for Electrical, S3 for Electronic, Crospon for Biomedical, CRH for Mechanical, FDT for Biosystems (from 2016) and new Sponsors Abbvie for Engineering with Business.
 

Other Sponsors for Scholarships, Bursaries and Prizes were Roughan and O'Donovan, Martin McAdam, PM Group, Mark Carthy, Deloitte, Institution of Mechanical Engineering, Cylon and Xilinx.

 

It was a tremendously successful event all due to the generosity of our growing cohort of Sponsors who wish to grow their corporate relationship with UCD as a centre of academic excellence.

Deloitte Master in Engineering Management Medal winner
Keith Kavanagh & David Hearn, Managing Partner Deloitte

Fionán de Barra, Architecture Graduates Association Treasurer,
Cillian Briody, winner of Arup AGA Architecture Medal &
sponsor Fergus Monaghan, Director Arup

EGA RPS Civil Engineering medal winner Darragh Hanlon
& Larry O'Toole, Director RPS Group

 



EGA SSE Airtricity Electrical Engineering medal winner
Irene Danti Lopez & Jillian Saunders, Marketing Manager at SSE Airtricity

 



EGA Crospon Biomedical Engineering medal winner
Cathy Swanton & Dr. Eoin O'Cearbhaill,
Biomedical Engineering Programme Director



EGA S3 Electronic Engineering medal winner
Ronan Scally & Mike Murray, S3 Business Manager

EGA AbbVie Engineering with business Medal Winner Shane Gubbins
& Angela Haran, AbbVie Senior Talent Acquistion Specialist

Roughan O'Donovan Prize winner Conor Lyons
& Séamus Mac Gearailt, RO'D Director

EGA CRH Mechanical Engineering medal winner
Niall Donnelly  & Jack Golden, CRH Organisation
Development Director

Norah Gallagher, mother of Pat McAdam Scholarship awardee
Colm Ó Riada & Dr. Kate McAdam





John Waldron, father of PM Group Kevin Kelly Design Awardee
Conor Waldron & Alex Sweeney, PM Group's Process Group Manager

Carthy Graduate Research Project awardee Niamh Mac Fhionnlaoich &
Prof. Eoin Casey, Head of UCD School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering







Carthy Travel Awardee Amy O'Keeffe & Dr. Patricia Kieran,
UCD School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering

Cillian Hayde, winner of Cylon Award for Excellence
(Electrical Engineering Project)
& Seán Giblin, Cylon Managing Director