Senior Lecturer

Email: Colm.Okane@TUDublin.ie

Tel: +353 1 220 6774

Research Groups: Product Design and Development research group

Research Projects: How maker education can integrate Art and STEM to create STEAM learning (Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellowship) - PhD student supervised by Dr. Colm O’Kane. 

ARROW Profile

Dr. Colm O’Kane is Senior Lecturer at TU Dublin’s School of Mechanical and Design Engineering and Chair of the University’s interdisciplinary Product Design programme. He completed his PhD at University College Dublin in 2012 in the area of bioengineering. In the course of this work, he was an ICUF Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

Colm was appointed Teaching Fellow in 2013, for work on the holistic development of curricula in Higher Education. He has supervised TU Dublin students to success in national and international competitions on over thirty occasions. He was awarded the Enterprise Ireland “Academic Excellence” award in 2019. 

Colm also serves as Director of the Bolton Trust, a charitable organisation which promotes and facilitates Innovation, Enterprise and New Product Development within the Dublin region. His primary areas of research interest and professional practice are innovation in products and systems, human-centred design and bioengineering.

Colm completed his PhD at University College Dublin in 2012 in the area of bioengineering. In the course of this work, he was an ICUF Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Colm was appointed Teaching Fellow in 2013, for work on the holistic development of curricula in Higher Education.   As an Inaugural TU Dublin Teaching fellow, he worked on an interdisciplinary team to develop TU Dublin's curriculum framework. 

His primary areas of research interest and professional practice are innovation in products and systems, human-centred design and bioengineering.

Previous Projects:

• Foundations and scaffolding: exploring literature and practice to build a new curriculum framework for TU Dublin.
• Perspectives on Designing for a Sustainable Future; Products for the Developed and Developing Worlds
• Aligning Aims in Innovation Management: a Participatory Approach to Defining Mission and Vision Statements.  
• CoCREATE: Collaborative Curriculum Reimagining and Enhancement Aiming to Transform Education.  
• Merging Creative Design and CAD Learning Activities in a Product Design Programme