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Engineering the South East - News & Events

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Engineering the South East - News & Events

News & Events August 2024

Toys4Engineers 2024

Toys4Engineers, our premier showcase for industries spanning energy, pharma, life-sciences, med-tech, robotics, technology, construction, and more returns on 3rd October 2024, from 9am to 3pm at SETU Arena, Waterford.

Engineering the South East will again be one of the organisating teams and we want cluster companies to help us continue to grow of this event. Exhibition space is filling up fast so please contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more information on securing a space.

More details on Toys4Engineers can be found here.

SETU Engineering Careers Fair 2024

SETU Faculty of Engineering will host a Careers Fair on both Carlow and Waterford Campuses in November. The key objective of these events is to offer companies an opportunity to exhibit and meet our students face to face where they can explore fulltime recruitment or work placement/internship openings.  

This is a faculty wide event and will include all engineering undergraduate and postgraduate students. With 1000+ Engineering students across the campuses we expect a healthy footfall at the events so participating companies will have plenty of interaction.

Places are limited so please contact [email protected] as soon as possible if you would like to exhibit at the Carlow fair and [email protected] if you are interest in the Waterford fair.

SETU Launch new BEng in Industrial Engineering

This new course will prepare learners for industrial engineering roles at all levels. Applications are currently open for the Level 8 award (1-year duration) which is scheduled to begin in October. Applicants will need to have a previous Level 7,  Advanced Craft Certificate or suitable recognition of prior learning (RPL) to qualify.  Entry to L6 & L7 of the programme will open in 2025.

This level 8 programme aims to develop engineers to have expertise in applying industrial engineering principles within their workplaces as well as being best placed to address the changing requirements and opportunities arising in industrial engineering applications. Click here for more details.

DisrupTech Event 2024

The Disruptive Technology Summit will take place in Dublin Castle on September 9th.The event will educate our companies on how they can invest, at scale, in Disruptive Technology R&D and will demonstrate how the DTIF fund can assist companies to compete internationally.

Companies of all sizes will be represented and there will particular focus on assisting your company to collaborate with others to deliver innovative results that are disrupting markets and altering the fabric of entire industries.

There is a huge amount of funding that can be used to support costs associated with innovation. We just need the right project and the right desire to achieve results. The cluster will be attending the event and encourage cluster members to attend also. Click here for more information.

Waterford Wexford ETB Running 2 AI Programmes

Attention Business Leaders: Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. If you are a company in need of an AI strategy to support your current and future business infrastructural needs and changes why not take the next strategic move and register for WWETB’s fully funded and accredited AI online course commencing soon. Full details here.

Apprenticeship Employer Database Published

The National Apprenticeship Office (NAO) have recently launched an online Apprenticeship Employer Listing detailing current apprentice employers by region and apprenticeship programme.

The listing is available via Generation Apprenticeship.

Successful Pilot of High Purity Welding & Pipe Fabrication Programme

Congratulations to Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board, the Team at Meta Academy, and of course the students who completed the pilot programme for the new High Purity Pipe Fabrication and Welding course recently. Engineering the South East were delighted to be part of the team to develop this programme.

The second cohort commenced this week and will finish in 5 weeks time.

Engineering the South East

The Engineering the South East cluster has a mission to see companies working together to address skills needs, promote careers in engineering and advance the engineering capabilities of the region.

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