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Qualifications
BE CEng MEngSc FIEI Eur Ing FIStructE
Tom Cosgrove joined the
company as a graduate Engineer in 1980. He was rapidly immersed in some
of the company’s largest projects and found tremendous satisfaction in
interfacing with a wide variety of leading Architects all over
Ireland. He became a Director in 1987. In 2004 he was invited to
develop and deliver a 72 lecture six module course in Structures for
Architects for the new School of Architecture at the University of
Limerick. He was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering at the
University of Limerick in 2009 where a Problem Based Learning approach
to Engineering Education is being pioneered in Ireland. Here he is
building an outreach programme to schools to communicate the joy of
Engineering and is actively developing a research programme linked to
Regional needs. He continues in his position as a Director of the
company where he participates in business strategy, design concept
development and design reviews.
As a matter of both necessity
and preference he has been involved in training and mentoring over 36
engineers in a multiplicity of projects since 1984. He received in 1991
a Master of Engineering Science degree in soil-structure interaction
involving Finite Element (FEM) and Boundary Element (BEM) technology. This placed him in a strong position to mentor young Engineers using
these tools in practice. He is active on committee and lecturing in
Engineer’s Ireland, The Institution of Structural Engineers (Ireland
Branch), The Irish Concrete Society where he served as regional
Chairman for three years and the Association of Consulting Engineers of
Ireland where he delivers the module on Structural Masonry as part of
the ACEI/IStructE Structural Engineering Course. He has also acted as
supervisor for the Advanced Concrete Technology Diploma.
He
particularly enjoys meeting young people and members of the general
public who are interested in the built environment and will happily
share his enthusiasm for all things engineering with all and sundry.
Among the top three highlights of his career is undoubtedly the
privilege he recently enjoyed in leading the Structural team for the
new Thomond Park Stadium in Limerick.
When not doing or teaching engineering he enjoys reading to his children, singing in choirs, snorkelling and hill walking.
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