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The Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER) at Maynooth University, Ireland has a further opportunity for one senior or entry level postdoctoral researcher on a prestigious new Science Foundation Ireland ocean energy project: Economic wave energy through technical innovation (SeaChange) Some project detail: Despite the vast global wave energy potential, and the need to diversify the range of renewable energy sources to provide dispatchable carbon-free energy, the current cost of wave energy makes it relatively uneconomic in relation to other renewable, and non-renewable, energy forms. This project proposes a combination of strategic technological improvements, with both broad applicability as well as specific device improvements, to effect a significant impact on the economic performance of wave energy systems and produce the step change needed to accelerate the technical and commercial development of wave power. Collaborators have been drawn from the University of Illinois (USA), CorPower Ocean AB (Sweden), National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL, USA) and TU Denmark. This project is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the successful candidate will join a dynamic group of...

Join us on Thursday at 11am for the COER Seminar Series.  This week, Joao Henriques who is visiting us from IST Lisbon will present: R&D at the IST wave energy group: from ideas to reality Here's the MSTeams link...

Check out PhD student Iain McLeod's new publication - Powering data buoys using wave energy: a review of possibilities In the Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy (DOI 10.1007/s40722-022-00240-3) Iain joined COER for a PhD in Developing a Wave Powered Data Buoy in July 2021. This highly collaborative project is funded by the Marine Institute's Eoin Sweeney Scholarship and includes a consortium made up of PLOCAN, Dundalk IT, Techworks Marine, Resolute Marine and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute....

This Thursday 9th June at 11am we are delighted to welcome Prof Serhiy Shtovba Serhiy Shtovba / Сергій Штовба - ‪Google Scholar from Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine to give a seminar via MSTeams entitled: Fuzzy Identification and R&D at Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine Here's the programme: Introduction R&D at Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine - by Head of Dept Fuzzy Identification Q&A Here's the link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzNkNDk4MDQtYjBlZS00OGE0LTgwZjItYWMxOWFkZjVjN2Ex%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%221454f5cc-bb35-4685-bbd9-8621fd8055c9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22aaee71d7-dc7c-4959-a00d-a418289f336c%22%7d...

A big thank you to MaREI and congratulations to our COER engagement team for winning the MaREI Engagement Exemplar Award 2022 at the annual MaREI Symposium held on 27th May....

Last Wednesday, 11th May, we were delighted to welcome transition year students to Maynooth University.  For our part, PhD students Iain, Mahdiyeh and Gaston gave presentations to a group of TYs explaining what it is about engineering and research that they love, along with an introduction to wave energy using our interactive demonstration wave tanks (we used the OWC one!). The students had lots of questions and we look forward to seeing them on campus as undergrads in a couple of years....

The More/COER wave energy workshop was held last week in Turin.  About 80 members of the ocean energy community turned out (in person!!) to find out what's new in the areas of hydrodynamics, control and the wave energy industry and to catch up with colleagues from around Europe. Hosted by MOREnergy from the Politecnico di Torino and organised jointly by MORE and COER, the conference featured a round table discussion and poster competition in addition to presentations from eminent researchers throughout the day.  The workshop underlined the ocean energy community's commitment to collaboration and openness in research....

Over the past few weeks, MU's EE department have been visiting schools to show senior students different elements of engineering. From robotics and communications to biomed and of course we sent some of our own PhD students to wax lyrical about the wonders of ocean energy engineering. We had lots of gadgets, demonstrations and presentations for the students to enjoy including a light tower, line bot and guard bot.  Thanks to the schools that participated.  We hope to see you on campus soon....