Donegal Region
About
About the region
Letterkenny has been designated a Gateway City in the National Spatial Strategy, which involves plans to:
- Improve road links to the region
- Enhance the capacity and resilience of energy support networks
- Strengthen telecoms infrastructure throughout the region
While the Donegal Region network has a small membership base, our network provides a focal point for engineers of all grades and disciplines, and proactively encourages their continuous professional development through delivery of a varies programme of lectures, seminars and networking events.
As a network, we encourage the participation of young people studying engineering, in particular.
We have strong links with Letterkenny Institute of Technology, evidenced by its involvement in key Engineers Ireland events, including:
- Engineers Week
- Regional KNEX challenges
Who can join?
- Engineers and engineering technicians working in the region
- Engineering consultancies and support servicing companies
- Local government and semi-state organisation workers involved in engineering
- Academic researchers, lecturers and students
How to join
If you are already a member of Engineers Ireland, and gave a correspondence address in Donegal when you joined, you have automatically been affiliated with this network.
If your correspondence address is outside the county, you can still join our network through the Members Area
It is free to join our network. Once you register as a member of a network, you can choose to:
- receive email updates on all events being run by the Donegal Region network
- use our network's discussion forum
- post comments on articles written by other network members
- comment on our network blog
- send messages to other members of our network
Events
With the support of invited experts, we run 4 lectures each year on a variety of topics including new advances within engineering and the application of engineering principles to other fields, including medicine.
Other events where members can meet and network include:
- Site visits
- Events to promote engineering
- Golf outings
- An annual table quiz and annual dinner dance
Contacts
Chairperson
- William Diver
- Chartered Engineer
- BAM Civil
- Kill
- Co. Kildare
- Tel: 074 9154482
- Email: wdiver@bamcontractors.ie>
Vice Chairperson
- Denis Gormley
- Chartered Engineer
- Engineering Department
- Letterkenny Institute of Technology
- Port Road
- Letterkenny
- Co. Donegal
- Tel: 074 9186423
- Email: denis.gormley@lyit.ie
Secretary
- Eleanor Diver
- Chartered Engineer
- Engineering Department
- Letterkenny Institute of Technology
- Port Road
- Letterkenny
- Co. Donegal
- Tel: 074 9186000
- Email: eleanordiver@lyit.ie
Treasurer
- Michael Carr
- Chartered Engineer
- Engineering Department
- Letterkenny Institute of Technology
- Port Road
- Letterkenny
- Co. Donegal
- Tel: 074 9186000
- Email: michael.carr@lyit.ie
Liaison Committee Rep
- Damien McKay
- Drumany
- Letterkenny
- Co. Donegal
- Tel: 074 9194411
- Email: info@dmk.ie
PR Officer
- Peter Cutliffe
- Oakley House
- Illistrin
- Letterkenny
- Co. Donegal
- Email: peterjcutliffe@eircom.net
Events
AGM
Date: 14th September, 2010
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Room 2230, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Port Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Admission: Free. All welcome.
About the event: All members most welcome.
Contact: Eleanor Diver, secretary, Donegal region
E: eleanor.diver@lyit.ie