Around this time of year, many students have difficulty trying to identify appropriate topics for study towards their Final Year Project. Many other third level colleges stipulate the available projects to work on but we do not do this in DIT. For the weaker students this creates a difficulty, whilst for the stronger students this […]
The submission time for the Project III Building Design Case Study is one hour ealrier at 9am on Thursday 7 May. This is to provide adequate time to interview all students.
Update: This talk has been post-poned until Wednesday 6 May, 13:15-14:00 in Rm 249. There will be a lunchtime information talk on all aspects of post-graduate study on Wednesday, 1 April, 13:15-14:00 in Rm 259, aimed at civil and structural engineering students. The talk will cover reasons for doing a postgrad, financing, available projects in DIT, and […]
Given that the current times are resulting in an unprecedented layoff of highly qualified, skilled, and experience engineers (civil and structural in particular), it is essential that the contribution of engineers to the economy is not overlooked. On this point, James Dyson’s recent interview on Newstalk’s The Right Hook is thus required listening and is […]
In the Presentations section of the site I’ve mentioned Edward Tufte and the art of presenting complex information. He even suggests that PowerPoint was complicit in the Challenger disaster due to its inability to convey complex information. Read an extract from his essay The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within here. Anyway, the […]