About Engineering at ECIT
The Engineering team within ECIT is responsible for bridging the gap between research outputs and commercial exploitation.
This requires combining an appreciation of the leading-edge research undertaken by the Academic elements of the University with the market guidance and industry contacts of ECIT’s in-house Commercial Team to convert research into viable software and hardware products of acceptable industrial strength.
In doing so the Engineering function takes research out of the realm of the potential and into the realm of reality.
Skills
ECIT Engineers support multiple areas of research and utilise a wide variety of software and hardware skills to produce Proof of Concept level demonstrators that help encourage take-up by industry or stimulate spin-out company creation. The projects in flight at any one time are wide, varied and rapidly changing, providing opportunities for developing new skillsets and experiencing new technologies. Successful exploitation of research can lead to such outcomes as:
- licensed Intellectual Property for the University
- stimulation of the local job market by
- encouraging inward investement from existing international security companies
- creating new startup companies from within the University following examples such as Liopa and Titan IC
- long-term partnerships with interested industrial players
To accomplish this ECIT Engineers use a wide variety of skills including:
- Java
- C/C++
- Shell Scripting
- Linux development base
- Graph Mining/Node Analysis/R scripting
- Network Simulation Techniques
- Android App Development
- Embedded Systems Development/FPGA
- Source code development tools [IDEs, Git, Jenkins, Docker etc]
Funding
ECIT receives funding from a number of domestic and international governmental and economic stimulation sources (as well as direct engagement with industrial collaborators) and ECIT Engineering is heavily involved with the application for and the project management of this income. ECIT Engineers often work on large-scale applied research projects funded from the European Community and would work on those projects alongside research students and University staff from collaborating countries.