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Patricia Cahill from Bullaun, Loughrea, a third year student on the BEng software and electronic engineering programme at GMIT, has scooped an Intel Women in Technology Award for academic excellence. Ms Cahill was one of eight final year students from colleges around Ireland presented with this award at a special ceremony in Dublin recently.

IT Sligo has launched new courses in Environmental Engineering and Electrical Installation and Maintenance that includes a new three year Ordinary Bachelor of Engineering degree programme in Environmental Engineering.

The first graduates of a unique degree in polymer processing, delivered jointly by Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) and IT Sligo, were conferred recently, and have begun to address what has been a growing skills shortage in the country’s €2 billion polymer sector.

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) is offering up to 20 places on degree programmes and 64 places on Higher Certificate programmes under the Government’s jobs initiative “Springboard”, launched recently by the Higher Education Authority (HEA).

Engineers Ireland, the representative body for the engineering profession in this country, has awarded full accreditation to the honours civil engineering degree at Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT).

A new business was launched in Westport over Christmas when Enda Kenny TD officiated at the opening of engineering business Horizon West, a high tech start-up delivering technical support services to manufacturers in the life sciences, electronics, and other knowledge based sectors. Horizon West expects to double its current workforce to 20 within the next year.