P ostgraduate business stu- dents at WIT gain a signif- icant level of learning and professional development through engagement and in- teraction with companies in the south-east region. A customised industry seminar series allows students to meet with chief executives and industry representatives, and over the past year, speak- ers at those events have been drawn from companies such as Barclays Capital (Lon- don), Accenture (London), UBS (London), Ulster Bank, State Street International, JP Morgan, Allied Irish Bank and Zurich Insurance Company. is year’s graduate busi- ness seminar programme at the WIT Business School was launched by Professor John FitzGerald, who spoke on the topic of ‘Ireland’s Recovery from Economic Crisis’. With positive economic and budgetary figures emerging, Professor FitzGerald engaged the audience comprising mas- ters and level 9 students with a holistic overview on the les- sons to be learned from the recent crisis, and a caution- ary appraisal of the options for the country heading into the future. e series of presentations also featured Dr Micheál Ó Foghlú of Feedhenry, which was recently acquired by US concern Red Hat for more than €60 million. He told of the dynamism in the sector and the journey that he and his colleagues had enjoyed through the various stages from start-up to expansion to acquisition. e process of organisa- tional change was a major el- ement of WIT chief executive in residence Dr Tom McCabe’s session, as he detailed the les- sons learned from a lifetime of strategising and implementing change across a variety of sec- tors and company sizes. The CEO-in-Residence Programme was initiated by WIT Business School to fur- ther integrate senior leader perspectives into the business school learning environment on a more sustained basis. is is achieved through meetings with staff and students of the school and engaging with them in a number of activi- ties, including business dis- cussions, lectures, research and master classes over the two-year period. Former appointees to this role have included Sam Mc- Cauley, chairman of Sam McCauley Group; and Pierce Casey, managing director of Adelaide Capital. Both of these executives provided tremen- dous learning, development and networking opportunities for WIT students. Finance was a strong theme throughout the series this year, with Tom Early of Enterprise Ireland analysing the chal- lenges and opportunities for companies seeking EI as- sistance as they move to the next stage of development. Joanna Roche of JP Morgan – and a WIT School of Business graduate – spoke of her own development in carving out a hugely impressive career with one of the largest corporations in the world. Another graduate, Helen McCarthy a senior consul- tant with the Mercer Group, spoke of her career as she was promoted to positions with varying challenges in Dubai and Singapore, to her current position in HR transformation and workforce planning. HR is always a strong ele- ment of the series, and two speakers this year, Mary Cul- len, who runs her own consul- tancy, Insight HR in Kilkenny; and Aileen McHugh, HR man- ager with the Irish Property Registration Authority, high- lighted the centrality of HR to an organisation’s wellbeing and productivity. Both spoke of the need for innovation and flexibility as organisations im- prove productivity and effi- ciency, while being cognisant of the need for building a pos- itive organisational culture. e business seminar pro- gramme organised through the School of Business assists graduates with employment opportunities. Following a recent review of graduate employment, over 86 per cent of postgraduate business students are in employment. Encouragingly, graduates are finding employment in the south-east, where there have been significant job losses over the past seven years. For ex- ample, there has been a grow- ing demand from a cluster of financial service companies in the south-east for finance and economics graduates and the relevance and transferability of the skills developed on the MBS programme ensures that graduates are in demand from companies outside the region such as Barclays Capital (Lon- don), Accenture (London), UBS (London). For further details, contact Dr Sheila O’Donohoe at sodonohoe@ wit.ie, or Gerard Arthurs at gar- [email protected] For further details on on post- graduate business programmes see wit.ie, email graduatebusiness@ wit.ie or call 051-302424 WIT students learn from the leaders Professor John FitzGerald and Dr Sheila O’Donohoe, MBS Programme Director for Economics and Finance WIT, pictured with postgraduate business students at WIT at the inaugural lecture of the WIT postgraduate seminar programme for 2014/15 A s an academic discipline, com- puter science has its genesis in Ireland in what is now the School of Computer Science and Statistics, at Trin- ity College Dublin. Computer science has evolved dramatically since its pioneering days in the late 1980s when Professor Nev- ille Harris reportedly imported the first network cards to Ire- land for use by his avant-garde cohort of students. Among that band of stu- dents was Stephen Barrett, today the course director of the MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems). He has a unique perspective, having experi- enced first-hand the extraor- dinary leaps made in that ac- ademic discipline throughout the years. Perhaps it’s only fitting that with its rich history the pio- neering School of Computer Science and Statistics remains to the forefront of technology innovation and is still the larg- est in school Ireland, as well as internationally, with 60 to 70 academics and a significant postgrad population number- ing more than 200. “We all work in a very vibrant, excit- ing and constantly changing environment,” said Barrett. Research-led teaching gives students the opportunity to learn about the most advanced technologies, presented by those who are breaking new ground in these fields. When writing research dissertations, students also benefit from high-level supervision from researchers accomplished in their fields. Among the full-time, one- year postgraduate courses on offer at the School of Com- puter Science and Statistics is the award-winning MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems). is well-established programme enjoys good links with indus- try, a strong graduate employ- ment record and has garnered an all-round excellent repu- tation. According to course di- rector, Stephen Barrett, “the MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems) is focused on service driven computer science and covers state-of-the-art design and implementation of large- scale solutions”. “Distributed applications can be found in almost ev- ery business sector, includ- ing healthcare, education and manufacturing. Graduates from this course are highly sought-after by employers for the specific skill sets acquired during their studies.” e school has gained an international reputation as a centre of excellence in net - works and distributed sys- tems, and researchers contin- ue to work closely with many major indigenous and inter- national companies which are active in the field. A very popular programme is the internationally rec- ognised MSc in Computer Sci- ence (Interactive Entertain- ment Technology), targeted at graduates coming from a strong computer science or related background. e MSc IET was listed as one of the top courses for video game studies at graduate level by American publication, e Princeton Review. e course is technically focused and fosters skills for the interactive entertainment industry, including computer and video games as well as the animation, visual effects and digital media industries. It is designed to equip stu- dents with the expertise in the science and technologies currently driving the enter- tainment, media and com- munication industries. Students engage in re- al-world challenges, work- ing individually and within teams, employing industry standard design and devel- opment techniques, enabling them to build their own in- dependent portfolios while learning the skills required to become future industry con- tributors. e programme also facilitates potential progres- sion to a research career by preparing students for further study at PhD level. Previous graduates have achieved great success with- in the games and software engineering industry and also in graduate positions in academia. e MSc in Computer Sci- ence (Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing) is also an at- tractive option. Mobile and ubiquitous computing tech- nologies allow interconnected devices to be embedded un- obtrusively in everyday appli- ances and environments, and to communicate and co-op- erate to provide information and services on behalf of their human users. e development of mo- bile and ubiquitous comput- ing applications and systems has been identified by many visionaries as a key enabling prerequisite for the evolution of the next generation of tech- nologies. It is a multidisciplinary field that requires expertise in dis- tributed computing, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, computer vision, mobile robotics, visualisation, and knowledge engineering, interaction and product de- sign, architecture, sociology, and psychology among others. is programme is designed to equip its graduates, from all of these backgrounds and more, to participate in this rapidly emerging field. In addition, the school runs a full-time MSc in Interactive Digital Media that covers a foundation in the theory and practice of creating applica- tions using all digital media types. Established in 1996, this long-running programme, which is constantly up-dat- ed, is a highly respected and intensely multidisciplinary programme. Postgraduate programmes delivered on a part-time basis over two years from the school include MSc in Health Infor- matics (evening/weekends), MSc in Management of Infor- mation Systems (evenings), MSc in Technology and Learn- ing (evenings/weekends), the Postgraduate Certificate in Statistics (evenings) and the MPhil in Creative and Cultur- al Entrepreneurship, which is offered full time. e School of Computer Science and Statistics has a very active PhD programme, with students undertaking world-class research. According to Barrett: “e school has a very international outlook, with a large number of our students drawn from overseas. We bring all of our students together, embed them into challenging re- search work, all the while giving them the experience of being part of a community, something that serves them well and makes the research more exciting. “ey gain exposure to en- gineering skills by seeing how things are built and how they work. ey also learn how to action ideas and turn them into businesses. is gives them a great sense of what they can achieve. Students from all courses showcase their work every year, offering opportunities for industry to interact while identifying pos - sible future collaborations.” Moving ahead in leaps and binary bounds The Sunday Business Post March 15, 2015 28 Focus On: Postgraduate & 4th Level Education International focus is a key theme in WIT Postgraduate MBS degree e WIT Department of Graduate Business Masters’ students visited the Euro- pean Commission Berlay- mont building on Tuesday March 03, as part of their International Study Tour. Postgraduate students, from across account- ing, management, HR, economics and finance streams, stayed at the Leu- ven Institute for Ireland in Europe for their week-long fully accredited module. e group met with the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Ho- gan, MEPs Deirdre Clune, Mairead McGuinness, Matt Carthy and Sean Kelly, and they heard from senior ac- ademics from Katholieke University of Leuven. e Tour is designed to enable WIT students to en- gage with the international business and political representatives and is an integral component across the masters in business programmes. While at the Leuven Institute, the group of stu- dents were featured on the TG4 programme, 7La, and competed in an innovative AIB-sponsored compe- tition in an international presentational format, the winners of which will be announced at a ceremony on April 16. e WIT MBS postgrad- uate course is delivered in full time and part-time modes at WIT and incor- porates lectures, work- shops by leading business and financial experts, a dedicated seminar pro- gramme on topics relating to leadership, marketing, finance and economics as well as visits to companies in the region. For further information on the postgraduate MBS pro- gramme at WIT, please con- tact Dr Sheila O’Donohoe at [email protected] or Dr Paul Morrissey at pmorrissey@ wit.ie Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin www.tcd.ie Full-time Postgraduate courses MSc in Computer Science • Interactive Entertainment Technology • Networks and Distributed Systems • Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing MSc in Interactive Digital Media MPhil in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship* Part-time Postgraduate courses MSc in Health Informatics MSc in Technology and Learning MSc in Management of Information Systems Postgraduate Certificate in Statistics * also offered part-time Web: www.scss.tcd.ie/postgraduate Email: [email protected] Tel: + 353 1 896 1765 SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND STATISTICS New Materials & Devices Information, Communication & Media Technologies Environment, Energy & Health Society, Culture & Enterprise PhD Opportunities in: www.dit.ie/phd Graduate Research School From importing Ireland’s first network cards in the 1980s, TCD’s School of Computer Science and Statistics continues to be at the forefront of technological innovation in Ireland Professor Peter Hines (centre back) at the 2014 Lean Management Forum Event at WIT with programme directors (WIT Lean Enterprise Excellence Group), Darrin Taylor and Aidan Walsh and other keynote speakers. Prof Hines has recently joined the WIT Business School as a visiting professor and will again address the Annual Lean Forum event on May 14 in WIT Business School ‘The Couch Sessions’ - Professor Stephen Barrett pictured with Evan Greally, making music with the Sofasesh at the recent Showcase of MSc Dissertations
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Postgraduate business stu-dents at WIT gain a signif-icant level of learning and professional development
through engagement and in-teraction with companies in the south-east region.
A customised industry seminar series allows students to meet with chief executives and industry representatives, and over the past year, speak-ers at those events have been drawn from companies such as Barclays Capital (Lon-don), Accenture (London), UBS (London), Ulster Bank, State Street International, JP Morgan, Allied Irish Bank and Zurich Insurance Company.
This year’s graduate busi-ness seminar programme at the WIT Business School was launched by Professor John FitzGerald, who spoke on the topic of ‘Ireland’s Recovery from Economic Crisis’.
With positive economic and budgetary figures emerging, Professor FitzGerald engaged the audience comprising mas-ters and level 9 students with a holistic overview on the les-sons to be learned from the recent crisis, and a caution-ary appraisal of the options for the country heading into the future.
The series of presentations also featured Dr Micheál Ó Foghlú of Feedhenry, which was recently acquired by US concern Red Hat for more than €60 million. He told of the dynamism in the sector
and the journey that he and his colleagues had enjoyed through the various stages from start-up to expansion to acquisition.
The process of organisa-tional change was a major el-ement of WIT chief executive in residence Dr Tom McCabe’s session, as he detailed the les-sons learned from a lifetime of strategising and implementing change across a variety of sec-tors and company sizes.
The CEO-in-Residence Programme was initiated by WIT Business School to fur-ther integrate senior leader perspectives into the business
school learning environment on a more sustained basis. This is achieved through meetings with staff and students of the school and engaging with them in a number of activi-ties, including business dis-cussions, lectures, research and master classes over the two-year period.
Former appointees to this role have included Sam Mc-Cauley, chairman of Sam McCauley Group; and Pierce Casey, managing director of Adelaide Capital. Both of these executives provided tremen-dous learning, development and networking opportunities
for WIT students. Finance was a strong theme
throughout the series this year, with Tom Early of Enterprise Ireland analysing the chal-lenges and opportunities for companies seeking EI as-sistance as they move to the next stage of development. Joanna Roche of JP Morgan – and a WIT School of Business graduate – spoke of her own development in carving out a hugely impressive career with one of the largest corporations in the world.
Another graduate, Helen McCarthy a senior consul-tant with the Mercer Group, spoke of her career as she was promoted to positions with varying challenges in Dubai and Singapore, to her current position in HR transformation and workforce planning.
HR is always a strong ele-ment of the series, and two speakers this year, Mary Cul-len, who runs her own consul-tancy, Insight HR in Kilkenny; and Aileen McHugh, HR man-ager with the Irish Property Registration Authority, high-lighted the centrality of HR to an organisation’s wellbeing and productivity. Both spoke of the need for innovation and flexibility as organisations im-prove productivity and effi-ciency, while being cognisant of the need for building a pos-itive organisational culture.
The business seminar pro-gramme organised through the School of Business assists graduates with employment opportunities. Following a recent review of graduate employment, over 86 per
cent of postgraduate business students are in employment.
Encouragingly, graduates are finding employment in the south-east, where there have been significant job losses over the past seven years. For ex-
ample, there has been a grow-ing demand from a cluster of financial service companies in the south-east for finance and economics graduates and the relevance and transferability of the skills developed on the
MBS programme ensures that graduates are in demand from companies outside the region such as Barclays Capital (Lon-don), Accenture (London), UBS (London).
For further details, contact Dr
Sheila O’Donohoe at [email protected], or Gerard Arthurs at [email protected]
For further details on on post-graduate business programmes see wit.ie, email [email protected] or call 051-302424
WIT students learn from the leaders
Professor John FitzGerald and Dr Sheila O’Donohoe, MBS Programme Director for Economics and Finance WIT, pictured with postgraduate business students at WIT at the inaugural lecture of the WIT postgraduate seminar programme for 2014/15
As an academic discipline, com-puter science has its genesis in Ireland in what is
now the School of Computer Science and Statistics, at Trin-ity College Dublin.
Computer science has evolved dramatically since its pioneering days in the late 1980s when Professor Nev-ille Harris reportedly imported the first network cards to Ire-land for use by his avant-garde cohort of students.
Among that band of stu-dents was Stephen Barrett, today the course director of the MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems). He has a unique perspective, having experi-enced first-hand the extraor-dinary leaps made in that ac-ademic discipline throughout the years.
Perhaps it’s only fitting that with its rich history the pio-neering School of Computer
Science and Statistics remains to the forefront of technology innovation and is still the larg-
est in school Ireland, as well as internationally, with 60 to 70 academics and a significant postgrad population number-ing more than 200. “We all work in a very vibrant, excit-ing and constantly changing environment,” said Barrett.
Research-led teaching gives students the opportunity to learn about the most advanced technologies, presented by those who are breaking new ground in these fields. When writing research dissertations, students also benefit from high-level supervision from researchers accomplished in their fields.
Among the full-time, one-year postgraduate courses on offer at the School of Com-puter Science and Statistics is the award-winning MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems). This well-established programme enjoys good links with indus-try, a strong graduate employ-ment record and has garnered an all-round excellent repu-tation.
According to course di-rector, Stephen Barrett, “the MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems) is focused on service driven computer science and covers state-of-the-art design and implementation of large-scale solutions”.
“Distributed applications can be found in almost ev-ery business sector, includ-ing healthcare, education and manufacturing. Graduates from this course are highly sought-after by employers for the specific skill sets acquired during their studies.”
The school has gained an international reputation as a centre of excellence in net-works and distributed sys-tems, and researchers contin-ue to work closely with many major indigenous and inter-national companies which are active in the field.
A very popular programme is the internationally rec-ognised MSc in Computer Sci-ence (Interactive Entertain-ment Technology), targeted at graduates coming from a strong computer science or related background. The MSc IET was listed as one of the top courses for video game studies at graduate level by American publication, The Princeton Review.
The course is technically focused and fosters skills for the interactive entertainment industry, including computer and video games as well as the animation, visual effects and digital media industries.
It is designed to equip stu-dents with the expertise in the science and technologies
currently driving the enter-tainment, media and com-munication industries.
Students engage in re-al-world challenges, work-ing individually and within teams, employing industry standard design and devel-opment techniques, enabling them to build their own in-dependent portfolios while learning the skills required to become future industry con-tributors. The programme also facilitates potential progres-sion to a research career by preparing students for further study at PhD level.
Previous graduates have achieved great success with-in the games and software engineering industry and also in graduate positions in academia.
The MSc in Computer Sci-ence (Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing) is also an at-tractive option. Mobile and ubiquitous computing tech-nologies allow interconnected devices to be embedded un-obtrusively in everyday appli-ances and environments, and to communicate and co-op-erate to provide information and services on behalf of their human users.
The development of mo-bile and ubiquitous comput-ing applications and systems has been identified by many visionaries as a key enabling prerequisite for the evolution of the next generation of tech-nologies.
It is a multidisciplinary field that requires expertise in dis-tributed computing, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, computer vision, mobile robotics, visualisation, and knowledge engineering, interaction and product de-sign, architecture, sociology, and psychology among others. This programme is designed to equip its graduates, from all of these backgrounds and more, to participate in this rapidly emerging field.
In addition, the school runs a full-time MSc in Interactive Digital Media that covers a foundation in the theory and practice of creating applica-tions using all digital media types. Established in 1996, this long-running programme, which is constantly up-dat-ed, is a highly respected and intensely multidisciplinary programme.
Postgraduate programmes delivered on a part-time basis over two years from the school
include MSc in Health Infor-matics (evening/weekends), MSc in Management of Infor-mation Systems (evenings), MSc in Technology and Learn-ing (evenings/weekends), the Postgraduate Certificate in Statistics (evenings) and the MPhil in Creative and Cultur-al Entrepreneurship, which is offered full time.
The School of Computer Science and Statistics has a very active PhD programme,
with students undertaking world-class research.
According to Barrett: “The school has a very international outlook, with a large number of our students drawn from overseas. We bring all of our students together, embed them into challenging re-search work, all the while giving them the experience of being part of a community, something that serves them well and makes the research
more exciting.“They gain exposure to en-
gineering skills by seeing how things are built and how they work. They also learn how to action ideas and turn them into businesses. This gives them a great sense of what they can achieve. Students from all courses showcase their work every year, offering opportunities for industry to interact while identifying pos-sible future collaborations.”
Moving ahead in leaps and binary bounds
The Sunday Business PostMarch 15, 201528 Focus On: Postgraduate & 4th Level Education
International focus is a key theme in WIT Postgraduate MBS degreeThe WIT Department of Graduate Business Masters’ students visited the Euro-pean Commission Berlay-mont building on Tuesday March 03, as part of their International Study Tour.
Postgraduate students, from across account-ing, management, HR, economics and finance streams, stayed at the Leu-ven Institute for Ireland in Europe for their week-long fully accredited module.
The group met with the
European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Ho-gan, MEPs Deirdre Clune, Mairead McGuinness, Matt Carthy and Sean Kelly, and they heard from senior ac-ademics from Katholieke University of Leuven.
The Tour is designed to enable WIT students to en-gage with the international business and political representatives and is an integral component across the masters in business
programmes. While at the Leuven
Institute, the group of stu-dents were featured on the TG4 programme, 7La, and competed in an innovative AIB-sponsored compe-tition in an international presentational format, the winners of which will be announced at a ceremony on April 16.
The WIT MBS postgrad-uate course is delivered in full time and part-time modes at WIT and incor-
porates lectures, work-shops by leading business and financial experts, a dedicated seminar pro-gramme on topics relating to leadership, marketing, finance and economics as well as visits to companies in the region.
For further information on the postgraduate MBS pro-gramme at WIT, please con-tact Dr Sheila O’Donohoe at [email protected] or Dr Paul Morrissey at [email protected]
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin www.tcd.ie
Full-time Postgraduate coursesMSc in Computer Science
• Interactive Entertainment Technology
• Networks and Distributed Systems
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
MSc in Interactive Digital Media
MPhil in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship*
Part-time Postgraduate coursesMSc in Health Informatics
MSc in Technology and Learning
MSc in Management of Information Systems
Postgraduate Certificate in Statistics
* also offered part-time
Web: www.scss.tcd.ie/postgraduate
Email: [email protected]
Tel: + 353 1 896 1765
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND STATISTICS
New Materials & Devices
Information, Communication & Media Technologies
Environment, Energy & Health
Society, Culture & Enterprise
PhD Opportunities in:
www.dit.ie/phd
Graduate Research School
From importing Ireland’s first network cards in the 1980s, TCD’s School of Computer Science and Statistics continues to be at the forefront of technological innovation in Ireland
Professor Peter Hines (centre back) at the 2014 Lean Management Forum Event at WIT with programme directors (WIT Lean Enterprise Excellence Group), Darrin Taylor and Aidan Walsh and other keynote speakers. Prof Hines has recently joined the WIT Business School as a visiting professor and will again address the Annual Lean Forum event on May 14 in WIT Business School
‘The Couch Sessions’ - Professor Stephen Barrett pictured with Evan Greally, making music with the Sofasesh at the recent Showcase of MSc Dissertations
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