Event Description

The Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Lecture, ‘Engineering the Future: delivering through disruption’ with Guest Speaker, Professor Orla Feely, President of University College Dublin (UCD), will take place at 5.30pm on Thursday 19 February in The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN as part of the NI Science Festival.

Now in its 24th year, Business Engagement at Queen’s and Engineers Ireland hosts this prestigious lecture series, in association with The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Pre-lecture refreshments will be served.

About Professor Orla Feely

Professor Orla Feely is President of University College Dublin and holds a BE degree from the same institution and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Engineers Ireland and the Irish Academy of Engineering.

Professor Feely is President of CESAER (the Conference of European Schools of Advanced Engineering Education and Research), and has previously served as President of Engineers Ireland, as Chair of the Irish Research Council, the EU Advisory Group on Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions and the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, and as Board Member and Deputy Chair of the Higher Education Authority.