Research
The Sunday Times Higher Education analysis places the Institute as the top research income performer in the IoT sector and is a measure of the calibre of research activity being undertaken and the success of the Institute's Research Strategy over the last number of years.
Read about some of the exciting research projects currently on campus in this section.
Welcome to the Dundalk Institute of Technology's webpages on its current research activities. Researchers within the Institute carry out internationally recognised research within several key thematic areas from across it's four academic schools.
The Research Office is situated in the Regional Development Centre on the DKIT campus. The key objective and main remit of its staff, is to sustain and grow the research base within the Institute through a strategic approach and in conjunction with the academic schools.
Innovation and Enterprise on DkIT Campus is handled through the Regional Development Centre. See this section for more information.
Accelerating Campus Entrepreneurship (ACE) Initiative is a joint collaboration of Blanchardstown Institute of Technology, Cork Institute of Technology, Sligo Institute of Technology and National University of Ireland Galway and is being led by Dundalk Institute of Technology.
The mission for CER is to engage in high-level research activity in the field of entrepreneurship, on a regional, national and international basis, and to disseminate our findings, through publications and research forums, to the wider academic, research and business communities.
CREDIT was established in June 2002. It is our mission to assist with Ireland’s coming transition to a renewable energy-based economy. It is in the process of becoming a national focal point for renewable energy research and development and academic programmes.
The Electrochemistry Research Group is focused on carrying out both basic and applied research within the fields of electrochemistry, inorganic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry, with a particular emphasis on applications within nanoscience, such as molecular electronics.
The National Centre for Freshwater Studies (NCFS) based in the Department of Applied Sciences at DkIT boasts a state of the art laboratory and an array of impressive field equipment. The range of expertise within the Centre includes paleolimnology of both freshwater and marine sediments, fishery biology, macroinvertebrate taxonomy and ecology, soil science, waste management, river rehabilitation and lake restoration.
Formed in July 2006 with the appointment of Rodd Bond as programme manager, the aim of the Nestling Technology for Wellness Centre (Netwell) is to provide a regional centre of excellence for the applied research, development and exploitation of sensor, digital media and ICT technologies that support sustainable environments, enhancing the quality of life and well-being of older people living independently.
The organic resources research group is primarily focused on the development of environmentally benign technologies for the conversion of organic resources into value-added products and the creation of alternative sustainable solutions for managing organic wastes.
This research is focused upon the development of an international software process improvement (SPI) framework for the medical device industry as a key enabler of best practice for the sector.
Smooth muscle is a major constituent of the internal muscular organs of the body including blood and lymphatic vessels and the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts. It contains similar contractile elements to skeletal and cardiac muscle but their organisation and mode of activation are quite different. Contractions of smooth muscle are either phasic (rapid single contractions which are usually concerned with fluid propulsion) or tonic (slow sustained contractions usually concerned with varying resistance to flow or control of sphincters).
Established in 2001, the Software Technology Research Centre (SToRC), whose membership is drawn from the Department of Computing and Mathematics, has as its core mission to engage in sectorally-significant research in selected software technology areas.
The aim of this programme is to support sustainable water resource management as a catalyst for sustainable economic and social development. The economic, social and technical pillars of sustainability are cross-cut by the issue of safe water provision.
Here you will find the websites of previous past projects - those that ran their course or where dicontinued for some reason or other. The content may still be relevant to the reader.