Browsing Conferences - School of Engineering, ATU Galway City by Title
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Development of a Best-Practice Framework for the Introduction of Sustainable Energy Communities in Europe: Lessons from Initial Field Studies in Denmark and Ireland
(2014)This paper presents the findings from initial fieldwork studies of sustainable energy community (SEC) development methodologies in two islands in Denmark and one rural village in Ireland. This study was undertaken in order ... -
Development of a prototype knowledge discovery portal for energy informatics
(2013)This paper describes the development of a prototype knowledge discovery portal (KDP) for energy informatics. The research domain is Ireland which is increasingly challenged to achieve energy efficiency targets and to ... -
Development of a strategy tool for environmental compliance management
(2007)The EU environmental legislation restricts the use of certain substances in products and, in addition, sets targets for recovery of products reaching end-of-life(EOL). Little support is provided to producers on how to ... -
A dialogical action research approach to innovation as organisational change
(2008)This paper argues that dialogical action research (AR) recently proposed by Mårtensson & Lee, provides a novel framework for both relevant and rigorous collaboration between academics and practitioners. The work is presented ... -
Dialogical action research as engaged scholarship: an empirical study
(2011)The rigor versus relevance debate continues to be a matter of lively discussion in the information systems discipline. The main argument of this paper is that dialogical action research provides a methodology to pursue ... -
Dialogical action research: a case study
(2011)The paper is in the form of a case study, in it the researchers used APC-Ireland, a subsidiary of the American Power Conversion (APC) Corporation. The Corporation entered a major period of transition in the first quarter ... -
An e-learning platform to support environmental compliance – part I: needs analysis and design
(2007)Current and emerging environmental legislation is driving organisations to become environmentally compliant thereby leading to improved environmental performance and reduced costs, time to market, regulatory concerns and ... -
An ecological perspective on innovation management
(2011)Enabling innovation is major challenge for individuals, teams, organizations, regions and economies and the topic is increasingly seen as being crucial not only to success but to survival. The topic of innovation is both ... -
Edith Stein and the problem of empathy: insights for responsible innovation
(2017-01-12)This paper argues that the concept of empathy can provide a rich philosophical source for the nascent area of Responsible Innovation (RI). The lens through which this study looks at RI is that of phenomenology. The research ... -
Edith Stein’s Phenomenology of Empathy, Education and Community: Lessons for Academic Collaboration
(2017)The paper argues that any programme designed to achieve authentic academic collaboration in a scholarly community requires a firm philosophical grounding. Consequently the work is based in the field of Phenomenology, founded ... -
Embedding Sustainability across the Built Environment Curriculum and Beyond
(School of Engineering and Architecture, University College Cork, 2021)This study will outline progress of an ongoing Teaching and Learning Engineering Innovation project in the Department of Building and Civil Engineering at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, which has employed incremental ... -
Empathy and teamwork: reflections on the legacy of Claudio Ciborra through the phenomenology of Edith Stein
(2007)Claudio Ciborra argued that the position of information and communications technology (ICT) in organisations requires a shift from the present focus on the scientific paradigm to an alternative centre of gravity: human ... -
Environmental analysis of the use of poultry manure as fuel for combustion on broiler farms: a case study.
(2014)Fluidised Bed Combustion (FBC) technology is not new. It has been used in power plants for the last three decades and is considered very efficient for biomass combustion. The novelty of the FBC application in BHSL’s case ... -
Environmental challenges for European manufacturing SMEs
(2010)Many owner/managers of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) do not believe that their business operations have a negative impact on the environment. However, cumulatively their effect is considerable; the SME sector is ... -
Erasmus, Luther and the free will debate: influencing the philosophy of management 500 Years on –whether we realise it or not!
(2018-06-28)Almost exactly 500 years ago, Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, an action that changed the course of world history. The greatest debate of that era was between Desiderius ... -
Experimental investigation of optimum properties and conditions for use of anionic emulsions in road maintenance applications
(2020-08)Bitumen emulsions are used for a range of road maintenance applications, including surface dressing, gravel seals, slurry seals, tack coating, cold-mix asphalt and in situ pavement recycling. The emulsions used can be ... -
An improvement strategy for the defects and rework management process within an SME: an action research approach
(2014-09)Irish construction reported strong growth towards the end of 2013, after years of industry recession. Following a property led economic collapse which started in 2007 construction output fell by circa eighty percent. Many ... -
Incubating engineers: entrepreneur-student collaboration in the teaching of entrepreneurship to mechanical engineers
(2014-06-11)This paper will provide an example of using student-entrepreneur collaboration in the teaching of a module on entrepreneurship to Mechanical Engineering final year students at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) ... -
Innovative management models: from scientific management to product-service systems
(2009)This paper seeks to explore innovative management models, in particular the journey these models have evolved over the years, from scientific management to product-service systems. -
The issue of waste in European manufacturing SMEs
(2011-10)Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) cumulatively cause 64% of total industrial pollution, and contribute approximately 60-70% of the total industrial waste in the EU. However, only 24% of SMEs in the EU are currently acting ...