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Cycling to Bluegrass in Westport along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way

Aongus and I enjoyed an amazingly warm and sunny Bank Holiday weekend, the start of June. We travelled by car with bikes on a rack, cycled parts of the Greenway along the Wild Atlantic Way, and...

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Crisp Fall Open House with a Glimpse of Sun

Following an extra-warm couple of weeks here in Dublin, fall set in with a cold, hard thud. Despite low thermometer readings, the sun did peek over the horizon, hanging low in the sky. We were blessed...

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Creators I admire: Shane Ormond and Nikkolas Smith

I’d like to highlight some creative endeavors of two people I have had the pleasure to teach and/or mentor over the years. They take time to post about their hobbies and/or professional work on...

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Learning civil engineering in India

India is now the most populated country in the world. There’s a pressing need for more and better-educated civil engineers there. A civil engineer working in India today can expect to work 9 AM to 9...

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Architecture educators in India

The architecture teachers at KLE Tech are really enthusiastic about teaching and about learning to do educational research. A number of them attended the engineering education conferences held at...

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Discovering Belfast with EERN UK & Ireland

Believe it or not, I’ve never visited Belfast. Well, I did once tour the Titanic Museum and the dry dock where the Titanic was constructed—was engineered. But I’ve never come to the city itself, and...

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Discovering Portland with ASEE

My colleague Diana Martin wanted to attend this year’s American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference in Portland, so I submitted a proposal to organize a panel on our forthcoming...

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Studying architecture in Mexico with Emma and ASCA

I spent last week exploring architectural topics and sites in Mexico, alongside my TU Dublin colleague and Head of Architecture, Emma Geoghegan. Early morning walk to the conference venue. My first...

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Meaningful moments in Mexico City: Coyoacán, Teotihuacán, Xochimilco canal...

My colleague Emma Geoghegan and I spent the most magical three days in Mexico City with the family of my PhD student, Sandra Ireri Cruz Moreno. On Sunday morning, following the ASCA conference, a...

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Ethics and sustainability for architects and engineers

Last week, I presented the Routledge Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education at a World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development conference in Krakow. Presenting at WED in Krakow Today, I get to...

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