Joseph Walsh

Executive Head of the School of STEM, Institute of Technology, Tralee

Professor Joseph Walsh is Head of the School of STEM and Head of Intelligent Mechatronics and RFID (IMaR) Research Centre at the Institute of Technology, Tralee (ITT), Co Kerry, Ireland. He has a Ph.D in Electronic Engineering from the University of Limerick and an M.Sc (Eng) in Bio‐engineering jointly from Trinity Collage Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD) and the University of Limerick (UL).


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Joseph Walsh
Executive Head of the School of STEM, Institute of Technology, Tralee
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Professor Walsh’s research experience encompasses the field of intelligent mechatronics and sensors, dairy technology, robotics and automation, autonomous systems, bio‐instrumentation and STEM education and is well published in these areas. He has over 20 years research and development experience in both industry and academia and has (co-)authored over 100 scientific articles and has received circa. 10 million in
research funding over the past 5 years. Professor Walsh was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FinstP) and is a corporate member of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland (MIEI). He was been awarded the titles of Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist. He currently leads a number of Lero targeted projects with Dairymaster, Bons Secours Hospital Group, Liebherr and Kostal.

• PhD in the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland Thesis title: Investigation into the Utilisation of Programmable Logic in a Teaching and Industrial Microelectronic Test Engineering Environment.
• All Ireland Master’s of Science in Biomedical Engineering Interdisciplinary Trinity College Dublin Thesis title: The development of an integrated RPM and EAT system using RFID sensors Graduated with 1st Class Honours
• Certificate in Medical Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons, St Stephens Green, Dublin, Ireland
• B.Sc. in Electronic Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
• National Diploma in Science (Photonics), Institute of Technology, Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland
• National Certificate in Science Applied Physics and Electronics (Photonics), Institute of Technology, Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland

Joe was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FinstP) and is a corporate member of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland (MIEI) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (MIEEE). He has also been awarded the titles of Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Physicist (CPhys).

Intelligent mechatronics and sensors, Dairy technology, Intelligent senor systems, Robotics, automation &autonomous systems, Bioinstrumentation, Microelectronic circuit test technology.

Joseph has undertaken a large amount of consultancy work and developed a number of successful consultancy Service Level Agreements (SLAs) working on a wide range of projects with companies such as;
• Liebherr Container Cranes
• Astellas
• Kostal
• Dairymaster

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