News and Events
- SBFE research fellow Xiaohui Lin receives the MSCA DOROTHY COFUND award
- Upskill with UCD’s engineering micro-credentials
- Minister O’Donovan announces funding boost for early career researchers
- Recent Lab visit by UCD Engineering & Architecture to Sheffield University Diamond Centre
- UCD Stormwater Runoff Research featured in Nicola Haines Team
- Madeleine Lowery among UCD Researchers recognised in SFI Frontiers for the Future Awards
- UCD’s LaNua Medical Wins Big Ideas Award at Enterprise Ireland’s Start-Up Day 2024
- Robotics Competition
- Congratulations to All the Winners of this years NovaUCD Awards
- Irish National Doctoral Research Cohort on Floating Offshore Wind Dynamic Cables is formed
- UCD and Northeastern University extend and deepen long-standing partnership with five collaborative research projects
- EPA announces €14.3M in new research funding
- Arup Scholarship Awards 2024
- UCD names new Vice-President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Project promoting safe staffing in the healthcare system wins UCD Research Impact Competition
- VOICE Project Launches to Shape Tomorrow's Sustainability
- Archives
- 2023 News Archive
- 2022 News Archive
- 2021 News Archive
- 2020 News Archive
- 2019 News Archive
- 2018 News Archive
- Irish researchers win first prize in global 3D printing competition
- Professor Da-Wen Sun Conferred with Certificate of Foreign Member of Polish Academy of Sciences
- Professor David FitzPatrick named as President of Ireland’s first Technological University
- Inspiring wind energy and wilderness projects win 2018 Sustainability and Energy LaunchPad Awards
- UCD Professor made fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
- Maxim Donates Unique Robotic Learning Factory to University College Dublin
- UCD named partner in major new EU manufacturing consortium
- Irish architects awarded UCD’s highest honour
- BDIC chosen as higher education partnership of the year
- Environmental Policy academics launch report on the Failure of Water Charges in Ireland
- Professor Da-Wen Sun Named Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in the 4th Consecutive Year
- O'Donnell and Tuomey are shortlisted for this year's RIBA international prize
- Science Foundation Ireland 2018 Science Awards recognise key leaders in the Irish Research Community
- 2018 UCD Alumni Award Winner in Engineering & Architecture
- Intel awards bursaries and employee mentors to 16 UCD graduate students
- The ESB Inter-Colleges Challenge
- Children encouraged to delve into STEM as Science Apprentice series returns
- Dr Nicky Bertollo wins the 2018 UCD Allergan Innovation award for novel medical device design
- Inclusion Panel at the Grace Hopper Conference in Houston
- Shire Announces UCD Scholarship for Masters in Biopharmaceutical Engineering
- Minister launches €22 million SFI research centre focused on advanced manufacturing
- Countdown to lift-off for UCD scientists making Ireland’s first satellite
- Biochemical Engineering alumnus set to chair new HSE oversight Board
- Arklow through the eyes of strangers
- Optics in Ireland, August 2018
- UCD Engineers Tech start-up CALT Dynamics selected for TechStars US accelerator
- A UK charity has created a way to play Minecraft using just your eyes
- Professor Da-Wen Sun Elected Academician of International Academy of Refrigeration
- Jane Rendell, Despina Stratigakos & Ruth Morrow in conversation
- UCD Master of Architecture achieves Substantial Equivalency from the NAAB
- Finalists shortlisted for UCD Future Campus architectural design competition
- €1.4 million in SFI funding awarded to UCD academics
- University College Dublin Wins 2018 Knowledge Transfer Ireland Impact Award
- Professor Da-Wen Sun Presented with iAABE Founding President Gavel and iAABE Fellow Certificate
- Tom Brazil 1952-2018
- Engineering Mobility Design competition
- Collaboration between Prof Federico Milano and artist Julie Merriman
- Professor Da-Wen Sun Conferred with Honorary Doctorate Degree from Peru
- UCD professor joins ranks of US National Academy of Engineering
- Intel bursaries and employee mentors for UCD graduate students
- Top Irish jockeys back UCD engineers use of race footage to crack future helmet design
- 2017 News Archive
- 2016 News Archive
- Building the State
- A Centenary Celebration
Professor David FitzPatrick named as President of Ireland’s first Technological University
Thursday, 20 December, 2018
(opens in a new window)Professor David FitzPatrick has been appointed as the first president of Technological University Dublin.
A leading academic at University College Dublin, Professor FitzPatrick’s term in office will begin in the New Year when (opens in a new window)TU Dublin is formally established on January 1, 2019.
Currently the Principal at the UCD College of Engineering and Architecture and Dean of Engineering, Professor FitzPatrick is also Provost of the Beijing-Dublin International College (BDIC), a joint venture between UCD and Beijing University of Technology.
Congratulating Professor FitzPatrick on his new appointment, UCD President Professor Andrew J Deeks said: “David’s appointment to this role highlights the role UCD is playing in providing leadership to the Irish higher education sector.”
“I would like to personally thank David for his dedication and contribution to the University over the last 20 years and his support as a member of UMT, and to wish him all the best for what will be an exciting and challenging role.”
Welcoming the appointment too was Minister for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, who said Professor FitzPatrick’s experience at UCD had made him the perfect candidate to “drive TU Dublin’s mission for technological excellence, research, knowledge transfer and regional development.”
“He is a person of huge experience and expertise in the higher education sector,” she said.
Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh added that Professor FitzPatrick’s leadership will be critical in delivering on the distinct mandate for TU Dublin.
“Professor FitzPatrick brings a wealth of knowledge, skill and experience to the new TU Dublin. With a background in engineering and leadership I am sure that he will drive the Government’s ambitious approach to third level education and set the benchmark for other technological universities to follow.”
The State’s first technological university - based on the merger of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), IT Tallaght and IT Blanchardstown – TU Dublin will be among the largest Higher Education Institution in Ireland with almost 28,000 students and over 3,000 staff.
The new university will be developed on three campuses – at Grangegorman, Blanchardstown and Tallaght.
There are currently three other consortia of Institutes of Technology in Ireland seeking to become technological universities.
Following Professor FitzPatrick’s appointment as President of TU Dublin, (opens in a new window)Professor Michael Bruen, from the UCD School of Civil Engineering, will take up the position of interim College Principal at the UCD College of Engineering and Architecture.
Dr Ailish O’Halloran, currently Deputy Provost at BDIC, will assume the position as interim Provost at the college.
Both positions will be advertised in due course.
By Staff Writers, UCD University Relations