{"id":299,"date":"2011-05-27T08:51:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/engineering-education-tour-of-ireland-with-t4"},"modified":"2011-05-27T08:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:51:44","slug":"engineering-education-tour-of-ireland-with-t4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/05\/engineering-education-tour-of-ireland-with-t4.html","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Education Tour of Ireland with t4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of my trip to Ireland,&nbsp; I observed the interaction between educators in Ireland&#8217;s t4 and Rwanda, I can only look to a great future as t4 has agreed to assist Rwanda in implementing their engineering and design curriculum for 2012.&nbsp; Ireland, its students, and teachers have opened there doors to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015432954b28970c.jpg\"><\/a><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2014e88b5bf7f970d.jpg\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015432954ef2970c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2015432954ef2970c image-full\" title=\"SPS Ireland Classroom\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015432954ef2970c-800wi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SPS Ireland Classroom\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>I had an opportunity to speak to Bernard Kirk, director of the t4 Galway Education Center.&nbsp; Bernard is busy&nbsp;establishing <a title=\"Galway Education Projects\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galwayec.ie\/projects.php\" target=\"_self\">partnership <\/a>with customers like Medtronic, Boston Scientific, universities, and other engineering organizations.&nbsp; These relationships with the Irish&nbsp;technology companies&nbsp;allows students to participate&nbsp; in &nbsp;<a title=\"Medtronic Science Contest in Ireland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galwayec.ie\/support2.php?ID=19\" target=\"_self\">Medtronic Science of the Future<\/a>&nbsp;and &nbsp;<a title=\"Making Stents with Boston Scientific\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galwayec.ie\/support2.php?ID=29\" target=\"_self\">Making Stents and Rockets with Boston Scientific<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;allowing for the critical connection for work force development.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gkD2pX95q0E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, as I look out&nbsp;at beautiful Galway Bay, on the Atlantic coast, I see this wind turbine.&nbsp; With years of engineering and technology incorporated into the Irish education system, perhaps this island will be the place where students will&nbsp;solve the world&#8217;s problems.&nbsp; Marie<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201538ec24532970b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201538ec24532970b image-full\" title=\"Irish Education 7\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201538ec24532970b-800wi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Irish Education 7\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of my trip to Ireland,&nbsp; I observed the interaction between educators in Ireland&#8217;s t4 and Rwanda, I can only look to a great future as t4 has agreed to assist Rwanda in implementing their engineering and<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/05\/engineering-education-tour-of-ireland-with-t4.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3930,3940,3952,4048,3990],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cad","tag-design","tag-education","tag-engineering","tag-stem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}