Electrical Services & Energy Management
Companies spend vast sums of money investing in their infrastructure to ensure the smooth running of facilities. Key to the success is the electrical, lighting and energy design of these facilities that ensure smooth operation with no interruption to their core business activities.
Graduates of this course work in design teams to deliver electrical services to buildings and play an integral role in the operation and management of the energy facilities.
You’ll be equipped with the fundamental engineering, management and design skills you need to design electrical services for facilities, and manage the energy consumption in facilities.
You’ll gain a thorough knowledge of electrical services engineering, which includes safety, power distribution and information network systems, cabling/wiring systems, energy management systems and the application of such systems to industries such as data centers, manufacturing, large commercial, multinational facilities, etc.
Management of facilities is taught to the highest international standards to ensure graduates can operate and maintain large facilities.
Engineering (Electrical & Electronic, Computer & Communications, Mechanical, Manufacturing & Design, Structural, Building, Civil)
This course will educate you to an honours level in electrical and electronic engineering. It meets the educational standard required for chartered engineering membership of Engineers Ireland.
You can specialise in Power Systems Engineering, Control Engineering, Communications Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or Computer Engineering.
Work Placement takes place in Semester 2 of Year 3 and typically lasts between 3 to 6 months.
Control Engineering: design and application of control and automated systems, including robotics.
Electronic Engineering: analysis and design of electronic systems.
Communications Engineering: advanced communications, including emerging mobile systems & networks.
Computer Engineering: the programming and development of state-of-the-art computer systems.
You can select two major options from the following specialisations in third year: Electrical Power Engineering: analysis and design of modern power systems and associated plant; Control Engineering: design and application of control and automated systems, including robotics; Electronic Engineering: analysis and design of electronic systems; Communications Engineering: advanced communications, including emerging mobile systems & networks; or Computer Engineering: the programming and development of state-of-the-art computer systems.
Students who take the major options in Computer Engineering and Communications Engineering are eligible for the award BE in Computer and Communications Engineering, all others are eligible for the award BE in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Sports Management & Coaching
Are you a sports enthusiast interested in developing a career in the fitness industry in a coaching or business role, or a business enthusiast who’s passionate about the world of sport business and coaching? If you’re fit and active with good people skills and an interest in sport and business, this is the course for you. You’ll learn all the skills of sports management and coaching techniques, combined with the fundamentals of business and enterprise. This comprehensive course covers all aspects of sport and sport science plus finance, marketing, management, IT and event management. This enables graduates to work effectively in sports management and coaching environments. We have a fourth-generation artificial playing surface, a fully equipped gym, large sports hall, a video performance analysis laboratory and a high-performance training coaching space. In Year 4, modules include Applied Performance Analysis, Elite Coaching, Sports and Leisure Event Management, and High-Performance Speed and Conditioning, and you can specialise in areas such as Personal Training, Strategic Planning and Sport Management and Coaching.
Note: Sports Management and Coaching students provide coaching and fitness support as personal trainers to the staff and sports scholarship athletes of the university, as well as coaching support to primary schools in the local area.
Timber Product Technology
Timber technologists are highly skilled technical professionals occupying a range of positions in businesses in the large and growing Forest Product Sector. Enterprise Ireland predict the sector will grow from 12,000 to 20,000 people in the next ten years. The increased focus on sustainability and sustainable timber products, the large increase in the Irish forest harvest, and increased demand for high quality timber products in Ireland and the UK, are driving this growth. This immersive, full-time course will develop a wide range of skills and knowledge preparing you for the challenges of this exciting, growing sector.
Timber Technologists play central roles in the many stages of conversion of wooden logs, thinnings and woodfibre into high quality timber products that meet demanding technical and environmental standards. These products range from boards and planks (to be used in construction or furniture) to wood pellets and fencing, and from fitted kitchens and large volume furniture manufacture to beautifully crafted timber artefacts.
TU838 BSc (Honours) Sustainable Timber Technology has been developed from, and replaces, B.Tech in Timber Product Technology. It is a 4-year, full-time immersive course featuring a mix of theoretical and skills-based modules (see module lists below). The course is taught in the context of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, with a direct impact for many SDG Targets (e.g. Targets 9.4 and 12.2). Cross-sectoral skills (such as critical thinking, creativity, management, collaboration and professionalism) are an important part of the course supporting the central focus on wood science, timber skills and production management. The course has strong links with industry and work placement takes place in the sixth semester. Field trips and guest lectures supplement the academic content of the course.
Through choice of elective modules, work placement and thesis the student will develop a unique mix of skills and knowledge to ensure employment in the part of the Forest Products Sector that interests them most.
Tourism Management
This one year course provides an opportunity for students who have successfully completed the BA Ordinary degree in Tourism Management to attain an honours degree in a further single year of study. It runs in conjunction with the BSc (Honours) in Leisure Management and BSc (Honours) in Hospitality Management.
Learning Outcomes: What will I Study?
The offering of the BSc (Honours) in Tourism Management course further develops the learners’ key skills, their strategic ability and their knowledge of the tourism management discipline. The BSc course provides a learning environment which builds upon the tourism management discipline at ordinary degree level and encourages a theoretical approach and a research ethos. It provides a course of study that enhances relationships between industry, and the School as a centre of excellence, in the tourism management area. The course encourages social, ethical and leadership competencies in this specified field.
It is this combination of higher learning outcomes that warrants an Honours award. Through the modules offered students acquire and utilise the additional cognitive skills of evaluation and synthesis, which is applied to the area of tourism management.
Print & Digital Media Technology Management
Public Health Nutrition
Public Health Nutrition involves the promotion of good health through nutrition and the primary prevention of nutrition-related illness in the population.
It focuses on applying food and nutrition knowledge, policy and research to improving the nutritional health of the population and high-risk or vulnerable subgroups within the population.
This public health nutrition degree has an international perspective. It examines how global, national and local community programmes can be designed to improve the nutritional status of the population as a whole and those at particular risk.
There are employment opportunities for nutrition experts in the agri-food production and retail industries, as well as in nutrition product sales and marketing.
Several government agencies and bodies also employ expert nutritionists. The growing appreciation of the role of nutrition in public health is increasing the demand for graduates in public health nutrition.
The study of nutrition draws on a range of subjects, including the basic sciences, biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, immunology, microbiology and physiology.
The course will provide you with integrated training in the science of nutrition and its applications to human health and well-being, both at the individual and community level. You’ll learn about nutrients in food, the role of nutrients in the body and the relationship between diet, health and disease.
The skills and competencies you’ll develop will be enhanced and reinforced by a research project in Year 3, and a 36 to 52-week professional placement in Year 4.
Retail & Services Management
This broadly based honours business degree has a strong focus on the retail and service sectors of the economy. The services sector is one of the most complex and dynamic sectors of our economy, driven by globalisation, information and telecommunications technology, and increasingly diverse and sophisticated consumers.
The retail sector, in particular, is a fast-moving and rapidly expanding area of opportunity for business graduates. High performers achieve rapid advancement and excellent rewards.
You’ll acquire a comprehensive understanding of the principal operational and strategic issues involved in the management of retail & services-based enterprises in the context of both national and international business. You’ll become familiar with the business specialties and disciplines affecting both operational and strategic management decisions in such enterprises.
The general modules include finance, information technology, management, marketing & market research, law, economics, human resource management, and entrepreneurial studies. The specialist modules include retail management, retail analytics, retail marketing, international retailing, retail consumption, store atmospherics, shopping centre management, retail buying & negotiating, financial services and services management strategy.
Science (Forensic & Environmental Chemistry, Biomedical & Molecular Diagnostics, Physics with Energy & Environment, Physics Technology, Science with Nanotechnology, Physics with Medical Physics & Bioengineering, Chemical Sciences with Medicinal Chemistry, Nutraceuticals in Health & Nutrition, Food Innovation, Pharmaceutical Healthcare)
Science with Nanotechnology
Nanoscience is the study of very small things on a nanometer scale (one-thousandth millionth of a metre). This is the scale of large molecules like plastics or proteins.
Nanotechnology includes the techniques used to create structures on a scale below 100nm, which can be used in new generations of electronics, sensors and computer chips. Many of today’s global challenges in the environment and health can be addressed by nanotechnology intervention.
Many industries use nanotechnology: semiconductors and electronics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, automotive, food, agriculture, and more.
This course is a solid science degree (physics and chemistry) but with a unique focus on nanoscience and nanotechnology. In the later years, you can specialise in either physics or chemistry, but all students do the nanotechnology modules.
Concentration on a single subject is not enough for any scientist, especially in as wide-ranging a subject area as nanotechnology. Thus, as well as chemistry and physics, this course covers relevant biology, problem-solving, computer studies, maths (in Years 1 and 2) and professional skills.
Much of the physics in Years 1 and 2 is delivered using problem-based learning which allows students to develop additional skills and qualities sought by industry (working in teams, interpersonal skills, adaptability). IT and computing form an integral part of the course.
In addition to the scientific modules, you’ll take a series of professional development modules on topics such as entrepreneurial skills, invention, innovation and commercialisation skills, and the role of science and technology in society.
TU Dublin finds employment for each student in a relevant industry for seven months (February-September) during Year 3. This will give you work experience and skills and enhance your employment prospects.
Industry across Europe is predicting a big shortage of graduates with knowledge of nanotechnology in the near future. Graduates can work in physics or chemistry-based industries such as medical physics, electronics, energy, telecommunications or the pharmaceutical industry.
