North-West region
About
About the region
Our network provides a focal point for engineers of all grades and disciplines, and proactively encourages their continuous professional development through delivery of a varies programme of lectures, seminars and networking events.
We are keen to promote closer links with the Institute of Technology, Sligo. The Institute regularly hosts regular Engineers Ireland events including career days and lectures and the regional KNEX challenges. Recently they have begun to webcast these lectures for the benefit of the region and beyond.
The North-West region has hosted high profile events such as the Irish round of the World Rally Championships.
Who can join?
- Engineers and engineering technicians working in the region
- Engineering consultancies and support servicing companies
- Local government and semi-state organisation workers involved in engineering
- Academic researchers, lecturers and students
How to join
If you are already a member of Engineers Ireland, and gave a correspondence address in Sligo or Leitrim when you joined, you have automatically been affiliated with the North-West Region network.
If your correspondence address is outside these 2 counties, you can still join our network through the Members Area
It is free to join our network.Once you register as a member of a network, you can choose to:
- receive email updates on all events being run by the North-West Region network
- use our network's discussion forum
- post comments on articles written by other network members
- comment on our network blog
- send messages to other members of our network
Events
North-West Region network members receive invitations to a wide variety of educational and social events throughout the year, including:
- CPD-approved evening seminars and lectures delivered by experts across a broad range of engineering topics
- site visits to regional projects of interest
- up to 8 golf outings per year in clubs throughout the region
- an annual dinner and annual table quiz
Contacts
Chairman & Council Representative
- Michael O'Halloran
- Chartered Engineer
- Stiefel Laboratories
- Finisklin Industrial Estate
- Sligo
- Tel: 071 9161626
- Mob: 086 8383259
- Email: mohalloran@stiefel.ie
Vice-Chairman
- Seamus Lee
- c/o Vincent Hannon Associates
- Abbey Street
- Sligo
- Tel:071 9150022
- Mob:087 6841447
- Email: slee@vha.ie
Secretary
- Rowan O'Callaghan
- RPS Consulting Engineers
- 4 The Mall
- Sligo
- Tel: 071 9138909
- Mob: 086 3854167
- Email: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Treasurer
- Damien Henry
- Chartered Engineer
- Sligo Area Engineer
- Sligo County Council
- Market Yard
- Sligo
- Tel: 071 911952
- Mob: 086 2398210
- Email: dhenry@sligococo.ie
PR Officer
- Emer Concannon
- Road Design Section
- Sligo County Council
- Market Yard
- Sligo
- Tel: 071 9111951
- Mob: 087 9681776
- Email: econcan@sligococo.ie
Events
Iarnród Éireann’s new River Shannon rail bridge at Drumsna
Date: 20th September, 2010
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon
Admission: Free. All welcome.
About the speaker: Oliver Doyle, former development manager with Iarnród Éireann.
About the event: Oliver will talk on the recently completed Shannon rail bridge replacement project on the Sligo/Dublin rail line (including the use of the world’s largest crane from Texas).
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Technological and communication tools
Date: 18th October, 2010
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Sligo Park Hotel, Sligo
Admission: Free. All welcome.
About the speaker: Paul Callaghan, Eircom.
About the event: Get yourself up to speed on the vast array of communications devices and tools available for both business and leisure.
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Securing Ireland’s energy future
Date: 15th November, 2010
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Sligo Park Hotel, Sligo
Admission: Free. All welcome.
About the speaker: Jim Gannon, CEng, RPS Group Plc.
About the event: Jim will outline the recent Engineers Ireland conference resolution of defining the engineering capacity requirements needed to secure Ireland’s energy future and then explore how this engineering capacity can be provided, and how existing and future engineers can access and avail of the resulting opportunities.
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Sean Coyle trophy
Date: 4th December, 2010
Time: TBC
Venue: Strandhill Golf Club
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Providing online practical labs to distance learning students in engineering
Date: 17th January, 2011
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: IT Sligo, Sligo
Admission: Free. All welcome.
About the speaker: Stephen Reid, IT Sligo.
About the event: IT Sligo is at the forefront of providing online education. Stephen will show how the college has brought online learning to a new level by providing students with remote access to drawing, engineering and electronics workshops etc.
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Engineers week
Date: 14th- 19th February, 2011
Venue: Various throughout the region
Admission: Free. All welcome.
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Energy – retrofitting existing houses
Date: 21st February, 2011
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon
Admission: Free. All welcome.
About the speaker: Joseph Little, architect
About the event: Joseph will give an overview of the challenges and solutions available to maximize energy efficiency of existing houses in Ireland. This lecture should be of interest to homeowners, contractors and consultants.
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Engineers ball
Date: 4th March, 2011
Time: TBC
Venue: Sligo Park Hotel, Sligo
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
River basin management plans
Date: 21st March, 2011
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Sligo Park Hotel, Sligo
Admission: Free. All welcome.
About the speaker: Paddy Kavanagh, project manager, ESBI
About the event: Paddy will look at the background and potential implications of the pending river basin management plans, which aim to restore the quality status of drinking and bathing waters imposed by the EU Water Framework Directive.
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Trip to Arigna Mines
Date: April, 2011
Time: TBC
Venue: Arigna Mines
Contact: Rowan O’Callaghan, secretary, North-west region
E: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Papers
The North West Region papers will be available to view shortly.