Engineer's Week 2017

Sincere thanks and grateful appreciation to M.J McNulty who came to our school to celebrate Engineer’s Week 2017. M.J delivered a fascinating account of his role as an electronic engineer at Valeo in Tuam, Co. Galway. M.J. showed us an array of circuit boards, parking cameras, schematic drawings, printed circuit boards, the camera lens (correctly known as the ‘fish eye’), the E.C.U, the microprocessor, the multi-metre (which measures voltage across batteries) and the oscilloscope. His wonderful presentation has certainly inspired many of our pupils to be engineers of the future! Here are some of the things we learned:

·                     A parking camera/sensor for a car has up to 1,000,000 pixels


·                     A human eye has up to 376,000,000 pixels


·                     Valeo make parking sensors for Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi & Porsche


·                     Valeo make more than 1000 cameras per day


·                     There are different types of engineers = Electronic, Mechanical, Software & Civil, to mention but a few


 M.J also shared his knowledge about branch exchanges and ventilators. Children were captivated by his account.


















































  Huge thanks to Richie O’ Sullivan, who came to visit us today to celebrate Engineers Week 2017. Ritchie, a medical engineer, gave the children a great insight into what his job entails. Ritchie also explained to us what engineers do, types of engineers and how we can become engineers. Ritchie told us how, topics and subjects that we learn in school today can help us in the future, in the world of engineering.

Ritchie showed us some of the medical devices, designed to help people, who may have a blockage in their body. Ritchie told us that he works closely with hospitals to ensure that this devices are suitable for all. He then showed us stents, and we even got to have a game with them!

We then conducted an experiment, creating static electricity, using our bodies and a balloon, we had great fun and we discussed how we could conduct this and many other experiments in our own home.

We thank Ritchie for his time, expertise and sharing his knowledge with us. We learned a huge amount about engineering today, how it is part of our lives every day and in our own way, we too are engineers!