Mary Doyle-Kent - Waterford Institute of Technology

Title: Lecturer - Programme Leader - BEng in Manufacturing Engineering (WD032)
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 (WD032). In my Lecturing position in Waterford Institute of Technology I lecture in the areas of production and manufacturing technology, sustainable materials, thermodynamics, engineering design and quality in manufacturing.

I have an interest in the following areas: 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.

Currintly I am Secretary of the South East Region of Engineers Ireland and co-run transition year 'Engineer Your Future' programs in WIT.

In 2018-2020 I will be the WIT Co Ordinator of an Erasmus partnership with the IUT Dijon/University of Burgandy which will facilitate Student and Staff exchanges,

My Research

Supervision of WIT student projects leading to publications:

Efficiencies through the Automatic Control of Age-Profiled Manufacturing Machines: A Case Study of Cost-Saving in an Irish Production Facility

MD Kent, H Curtis, R Darcy, L Stapleton, S Norton - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract: This paper asked if an effective energy measurement and monitoring system could
be designed which was capable of controlling production machines to reduce operational
costs.

Energy reduction model for Irish public sector waste. A case study by WIT

D Fahey, M Doyle-Kent, P O'Leary - Proceedings in GV-Global …, 2014 - gv-conference.com
Abstract This research paper describes a model and associated a case study for the
recovery of Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) and its conversion into biodiesel.

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 .