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Talk: How companies successfully partner with Irish Universities - Industry Engagement at Trinity College Dublin Trinity College, The University of Dublin, is Ireland highest ranked university and a

1 Talk: How companies successfully partner with Irish Universities - Industry Engagement at Trinity College Dublin Trinity College, The University of Dublin, is Ireland highest ranked university and a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Trinity has a strong history and continued commitment to proactively seeing research commercialized, and impacting society. Companies engage with Trinity College to access our talent pipeline, license our technologies, collaborate to develop new products or processes, access our world class research infrastructure and expertise to provide technology and business solutions. Our industry partners are as varied and diverse as our research themes, ranging from well-known multinationals such as Intel, Google, IBM and Pfizer to innovative Irish SMEs like Sigmoid Pharma, Vitalograph and Welocalize. Innovation at Trinity connects with society at many levels developing a vibrant start-up and entrepreneurial culture. The excellence of our graduates and staff is reflected in the success of our spin-outs and leading companies who employ them. The talk will (i) outline our key research themes, (ii) illustrate best practices engagement with industry case studies and (iii) identify international funding programmes that can support Industry accessing our graduate and research excellence Dr. Chris Keely brings 20 years of experience working in and with, technology-focused multinational and indigenous Irish companies in the areas of new business generation and industry/academic engagement. In his current positon as the Senior Business Development Manager at the Office of Corporate Partnership and Knowledge Exchange at Trinity College Dublin, he champions and is responsible for the successful delivery of the college s industry strategy; enabling and supporting the linking and commercial exploitation of academic research with industry. Dr. Chris Keely Senior Business Development Manager Office of Corporate Partnership & Knowledge Exchange, Trinity Research and Innovation (Landline) (Mobile) chris.keely@tcd.ie

2 is ranked 1st in Ireland and in the top 100 world universities by the QS World University Rankings. Talk: Making manufacturing processes SMART- embedding sensors into machine tools and processes- cases from the medical manufacturing industry INDUSTRY 4.0 proved to be an excellent vehicle for driving forward the agenda of connected machines and the Industrial Internet of Things. In the last 5 year, the pace of change in manufacturing industry regarding the levels of digitilisation has been dramatic, enabled by service offerings and solutions from vendors and suppliers and researchers. With this level of digital infrastructure in place, the key question arise of how to get value from the data, how to effect change in manufacturing processes that have impact, increasing energy efficiency, optimizing use of consumables, reducing risk of part damage. The opportunity now is to make the manufacturing process SMART. Dr. O Donnell will present on research undertake in the medical manufacturing industry on the use of embedded sensing in in-process analytics to drive change within the manufacturing processes. Dr. Garret O'Donnell is a director of STAM, the Science and Technology for Advance Manufacturing research group in Trinity College Dublin. Dr. O Donnell s research activities are based on advancing the scientific understanding underpinning advanced manufacturing technologies in sectors such as medical devices, automotive and aerospace sectors, and the research is aligned with industry at TRL 5-8. The core focus of the research work is the characterisation of measurable phenomena in materials processing spanning length scales and spanning domains from machining, AM, to energy consumption at factory systems level. The calibre of the research group is at the highest level internationally and a metric of international esteem is that Dr. O Donnell is an associate member of The International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP) and funded Investigator in AMBER- Irelands leading centre on materials research. Dr. O Donnell has carried out more that 25 funded research projects with more than 30 industrial collaborators in the last 10 years with strong links to industry addressing next generation challenges such as Industry 4.0. Professor Garret O Donnell Director Science and Technology in Advanced Manufacturing (STAM) (Landline)

3 (Mobile) Talk: Extreme Heat Transfer- unlocking the science to optimize the design and manufacturing next generation automotive systems and devices Like many others, the automotive industry is being faced with increasing demand for information processing and are including evermore high technology electronic components and packages in their automobile designs. The current trends, including the computerization of transport, autonomous vehicles, high power LEDs, advanced thermal comfort and the pending proliferation of electric vehicle are changing the landscape of automotive thermal management. A particularly critical issue is the escalating power density of electronic components. As heat fluxes exceed 100 W/cm2, conventional air cooling technologies are no longer viable. In the near future, heat fluxes 10 times this level are projected and illustrates the obvious fact that if advanced cooling technologies are not engineered in pace with the advancement of electronics components, thermal management will inhibit progress of new age automobiles. In this this talk, some promising emerging technologies for extreme heat transfer will be discussed and future trends and outlook will be outlined. Dr. Anthony Robinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He received his PhD at McMaster University, Canada, in 2003 on the topic of Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer in Microgravity. He joined the academic staff of Trinity College in 2005 and was made Fellow in His research spans topics ranging from the basic science of microscale evaporative processes to applied energy for international sustainable development. Professor Robinson has raised well over 4 million in research funding over the past 10 years and has published 84 papers in top tier international journals along with numerous conference papers, which have been cited over 1500 times and currently has an h-index of 23. As a prominent academic in the field, he is an invited member of the European Space Agency s International Topical Team for Two Phase Heat and Mass Transfer and was recently invited to act as Editor for Elsevier s Experimental thermal and Fluid Science journal. Professor Robinson also performs commercially relevant research and has filed 8 patents, has negotiated 2 successful license agreements with industry and was the winner of Ireland s 2017 Knowledge Transfer Ireland Impact Award for Collaborative Research with industry. Dr Robinson also runs a successful consulting company, Confluent Research Ltd. Professor Anthony Robinson

4 (Landline) arobins@tcd.ie Talk: Metal Additive Manufacturing: From solid-state to laser processing and analytics at all scales, the complete additive manufacturing loop Engineers of a certain generation got to know traditional manufacturing processes of machining, forming, casting and welding in their formal education, and in more recent year additive is something new. However the new engineers currently in their formative education accept that additive and 3D print is yet another technology that can be used- nothing new. A key question is presented, are we designing-for-additive-manufacturing or are we still thinking in our traditional way? A new multiscale research group with both fundamental and applied research in the additive manufacturing field of medical prosthesis, aero meta-material and oil and gas has proposed new models for considering these issues in the course of the applied research projects with industry. Examples of the approach and technologies are presented. Dr. Rocco Lupoi Dr. Rocco Lupoi is a director of STAM within the Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department, Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Lupoi joind TCD in July 2012; the year after he was awarded of a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship. After being awarded of a PhD degree in October 2008, he was appointed Research Associate in the Institute of Manufacturing (IfM) - Cambridge University (UK) to explore innovative melt-free material additive processes. He is a recognized expert of Cold Spray and other deposition methods, and he is one of the inventors of a new LASERbased coating technology known as "SprayLaze". He is a major contributor in the field, with high-rank publications, patents submitted and an article in a Nature Publishing Group - NPG journal. Dr. Lupoi in Trinity is exploring new manufacturing processes and the potential of Cold Spray as metal Additive Manufacturing method; he is the lead PI of a large research project in this topic funded by the European Space Agency. Dr. Lupoi is the Principal Investigator of the National Cold Spray Research Centre in Ireland, and is a funded Investigator with the Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research (AMBER) centre at Trinity College. Professor Rocco Lupoi (Landline) lupoir@tcd.ie

ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE. FOR CANADA S FUTURE Enabling excellence, building partnerships, connecting research to canadians SSHRC S STRATEGIC PLAN TO 2020

ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE. FOR CANADA S FUTURE Enabling excellence, building partnerships, connecting research to canadians SSHRC S STRATEGIC PLAN TO 2020 ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE FOR CANADA S FUTURE Enabling excellence, building partnerships, connecting research to canadians SSHRC S STRATEGIC PLAN TO 2020 Social sciences and humanities research addresses critical