Ms.Mary Doyle-Kent

Staff Directory - Mary Doyle-Kent

Ms.  Mary  Doyle-Kent  CENG, MEng, MA, BSc Eng, Dip. Eng.

Title

Lecturer - Programme Leader - BEng in Manufacturing Engineering (WD208)

School/Department

Engineering - Engineering Technology

Telephone

+353 0 51302058

Email

[email protected]

Room Name/Num:

318

Building:

1969 - Main Building

Campus:

Main Campus

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My Biography

My education as an Engineer started in Bolton Street, DIT,  with an honours degree in Production Engineering and MA in Mathematics from TCD. In 1996 I added a MEng to my qualifications and have been a Chartered Member of Engineers Ireland for over 20 years. 

During the first ten years of my career as a Production/Manufacturing Engineer I worked in the area of new products in the automotive industry in the Loire Valley, France, the toy industry in Waterford, Ireland and the sunglasses industry also in Waterford, Ireland.

Around this time I also was involved in a Brite Euram research project in the Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth College, Co Kildare, I lectured in Bolton St. DIT in the evenings and undertook a research Masters in Engineering in Dublin City University.

I am currently the Programme Leader for the BEng in Manufacturing Engineering course (WD208). I have an interest in the following areas: inclusion, diversity and equality in engineering, mentoring, engineering ethics, environmental design and effective communications skills

Over the past number of years I have strived to involve local industries into our courses through site visits and industry – specific student projects.

In 2019-2020 I was Chair of Engineers Ireland South East Region, 2018-2019 Vice Chair, and from 2016-2018 Secretary. I am the WIT third level Advocate for Engineers Ireland and have coordinated EI STEPS Transition Year programmes.

I am an active volunteer for STEPS for over 20 years.

Since 2017 I have sat up and coordinated four Erasmus exchange programmes for the School of Engineering: IUT Dijon/ Université de Bourgogne, IUT Aix-Marseille Université, Czech, University of Life Sciences Prague and Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 2019 I was nominated Chair of the International Federation Automatic Control Technical Committee 9.5 Working Group on Inclusion and Diversity.

My Research

Research activities:

Since January 2019 I am candidate of the Doctoral Programme in Engineering Science Mechanical Engineering in Technische Universität Wien [Vienna Technical University].

I am a member of The Centre for INformation SYstems and TEchno-culture (INSYTE) is an interdisciplinary, cross-school research centre in the field of information systems and organizations.

Teaching Experience

Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road, Waterford                                                     

2014 – present - Programme Leader, BEng in Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Engineering Technology.

2000 - present - Lecturer in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Engineering Technology.

Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin 1.

1995 - 1997 - Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in Bolton Street, School of Engineering, DIT .                                                 

My Professional Experience

  • 2013-2015 - External Examiner, Bachelor Engineering Tech (Ord) Engineering Systems Maintenance, Dublin Institute of Technology.
  • 1997-1999 - New Products Manager, Luxottica Ireland, Waterford (Previously Bausch and Lomb-Sunglass Division).
  • 1996 - 1997 - New Products Engineer, Cartamundi, Cork Road, Waterford (Previously Hasbro Ireland).
  • 1994 -1996 - Project Engineer, Department of Experimental Physics, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. 
  • 1990 -1994 - Project Co-Ordination Engineer, (Design Office and Research and Development Engineer), Rockwell A.B.S. Sully-sur-Loire, France .                                                                                                       

Publications

  • Doyle-Kent, M. and Kopacek, P., 2020, September. Social and Ethical Aspects of Automation. In Proceedings of the International Symposium for Production Research 2020 [To be published]

 

  • Doyle-Kent, M. and Kopacek, P., 2020, September Do we need synchronization of the human and robotics to make Industry 5.0 a success story? In Proceedings of the International Symposium for Production Research 20202 [To be published]

 

  • Kent, M.D., Chowdhury, F.N., Costello, O., O’Neill, B., Organ, J., Kopacek, P. and Stapleton, L. and 20202. TECIS Inclusion and Diversity working group vision. IFAC-PapersOnLine [To be published]

 

  • Doyle-Kent, M. and Kopacek, P., 2019, August. Industry 5.0: Is the Manufacturing Industry on the Cusp of a New Revolution? In Proceedings of the International Symposium for Production Research 2019 (pp. 432-441). Springer, Cham.

 

  • Doyle-Kent, M., Fanning, M., O’Brien, D. and Kopacek, P., 2019. Cost Oriented robotic arm optimised to aid independence. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(25), pp.125-130.

 

  • Kent, M.D., Costello, O. and Kopacek, P., 2019. Where are all the Irish women engineers: a case study. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(25), pp.136-141.

 

  • Costello, O., Kent, M.D. and Kopacek, P., 2019. Integrating Education into Maintenance Operations: an Irish case study. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(25), pp.415-420.

 

  • Costello, O., Kent, M.D. and Kopacek, P., 2019. Cost-Orientation Maintenance Engineering: Case Study of an Irish Manufacturing Plant. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(25), pp.409-414.

 

  • Hersh, M., Stapleton, L., Kopacek, P., Groumpos, P., Kent, M.D., Fanning, M. and Costello, O., 2019. Panel Discussion: Sustainable Engineering for 21St Century and Beyond. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(25), pp.585-587.

 

  • Kent, M.D., Costello, O., Phelan, S. and Petrov, K., 2018. Cost Oriented Maintenance Management Systems for Manufacturing Processes. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(30), pp.48-53.

 

  • Nolan, T. and Doyle-Kent, M., 2018. An Investigation into the Role of the Building Structure on Energy Use & CO2 Emissions over the Life Cycle of a Medium-Rise Residential Building. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(30), pp.60-65.

 

  • Kent, M.D., Curtis, H., Darcy, R., Stapleton, L. and Norton, S., 2016. Efficiencies through the automatic control of age-profiled manufacturing machines: A case study of cost-saving in an Irish production facility. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 49(29), pp.42-47.

 

  • Fahey, D., Doyle-Kent, M. and O’Leary, P., 2014, April. Energy reduction model for Irish public sector waste. A case study by WIT. In Proceedings in GV-Global Virtual Conference (No. 1).