Monthly Archive: August 2017
By Jimmy Muldoon, TDN Chair, Senior Technical Officer, School of Chemistry. The UCD Technical Development Network is initially working to map the University technical space with a view to supporting the development of Technical...
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the tool used for? “What is a process?” I hear you ask… A process is a series of actions taken to achieve a desired result. A process...
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the tool used for? The 5 Why’s is a very simple technique to help you get to the root cause of a problem so that you can...
By Niall Dennehy, BA Student Progression Manager. Following a workshop on Tuesday 2nd May of this year that focused on Orientation timetabling, Erin O’Malley, Irene Rose and I began to discuss how orientation worked...
by Erin O’Malley, Programme Manager, UCD Engineering & Architecture Programme Office. Local Programme Orientation CoP Workshop – 18 July 2017 Within a number of weeks of informally coming together as a group with a common interest,...
by Dr Sarah Feehan, School of History. The School of History participated in the ‘Programme orientation – more than just the week before term’ workshop which offered us the opportunity to discuss our approach to...
by Olivia Jackman, IT Services. EdTECx in action is in its third year and in tandem with EdTECx talks (which takes place in Spring), it is becoming a fixture in the UCD calendar. This year EdTECx in...
The next WST CoP event will take place in the afternoon on 23 October and it is not to missed! The line-up promises an exciting mix of speakers and much like the WST Summer...
By Olga Murdoch and Kim Lacey, UCD Agile. A big thank you to all those who attended our first in-house Lean Six Sigma training entitled “the Fundamentals of Lean for UCD”. The training was...
By Assoc Professor Gerald Mills, Head of School, School of Geography. A great deal of information that UCD gathers contains valuable geographic information that is rarely used for planning purposes. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)...