Guest Lectures, Onsite Visits and Work Experience with Matthieu Chardon
ABOUT THE COLLABORATOR
Glanua design, build, operate, and maintain water and wastewater infrastructure for the municipal and industrial sectors. These services are supported by a state-of-the-art offsite manufacturing and innovation facility in Navan, Ireland. This facility enables the company to excel in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and machine-building for innovative water and wastewater treatment solutions. Their head office is located in Loughrea, Co Galway, Ireland from where the company has successfully delivered numerous projects across Ireland, the UK, Central Europe, and the USA
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
This voluntary event for Mechanical Engineering students was organised by Tom Treacy from the School of Mechanical Engineering and supported by the Enterprise Academy.
Student teams from across different stages of the mechanical engineering programmes at level 7 and 8 worked on a Water Sustainability Enterprise Challenge sponsored and supported by Glanua. The challenge was focused on developing innovative strategies to remove carbon from the design, build and operational stages of a water treatment plant in the Irish context.
Over a full day the teams followed a Human Centered Design approach. After an initial introduction by Glanua each team, supported by a Glanua personnel on their Graduate recruitment programmed, mapped the user experience, conducted research to identify specific problems to address, identified appropriate solutions through ideation and prioritisation sessions. The day ended with each team pitching their ideas to a group of judges from Glanua, Uisce Eireann and TU Dublin.
IMPACT AND BENEFITS
Engaging with such enterprise challenges equip learners with recognised transversal skills like complex problem-solving, critical thinking, innovation, creativity, communication, teamwork, leadership, inclusion and resilience.
In addition to gaining such skills which are vital for future-proofing their careers, this Enterprise Challenge helps students to increase their awareness and understanding of sustainability challenges by having it contextualised by the company. It provides learners with a hands-on learning experience, bridging the gap between academic knowledge and practical skills. The challenge also exposes learners to different industry players and allows them to explore potential career paths.
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