TU Dublin Student Sean Heffernan Wins Prestigious Engineering Award
Sean Heffernan, a recent graduate of the BE in Structural Engineering at TU Dublin, has won the Seán de Courcy Student Award at the Irish Concrete Society Awards 2024.
The Seán de Courcy Student Award is open to all students undertaking an accredited Master's and undergraduate Degree programme of study in Civil and Structural engineering in Ireland. This year, shortlisted finalists included students from Munster Technological University, Trinity College Dublin, and TU Dublin. The adjudicating panel, consisting of three Chartered Civil/Structural Engineers, was impressed with the significant amount of work and effort that each candidate had invested in their projects, the detailed analysis work undertaken, and the quality of presentation in the dissertations.
Sean’s project titled 'The strength properties and embodied carbon of alternative concrete mixes' encountered tough competition, but the adjudicators were impressed by its innovation and technical understanding and timely focus on current industry demands relating to sustainability and carbon reduction.
Dr Caitríona de Paor, Lecturer in the School of Transport and Civil Engineering, supervised Sean’s winning project.