Student engineers from Trinity College Dublin will represent Ireland at a global design innovation showcase at Stanford University next week. 
 
The engineers participating in the showcase completed the Innovation in Product Development course at Trinity that seeks to provide them with invaluable international collaborative experience at the interface of design, engineering and business. It is hoped that such skills will help create Ireland’s innovators of tomorrow.
 
At the showcase this week, the engineers will present high-quality and fully functional prototypes they have created to help solve societal problems at an event that brings together teams from 16 world-leading universities spanning five continents.
 
Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Trinity, Kevin Kelly said, "As Ireland’s leading university, we should be setting our goals high, and that is what we’re doing by collaborating with Stanford University.

International collaboration is a key feature of modern industry, and indeed academia, and we see the benefits of that kind of collaboration garnered by our students and delivered in the innovative output in their projects. It is hard work for the students, but ultimately very rewarding to respond to real user needs by designing and creating real functional products."

Source: www.businessworld.ie