This year, Engineers Ireland and Queen’s University are delighted to welcome Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, to give the 16th Sir Bernard Crossland Annual Lecture.

Dame Ann will be discussing the role of universities in stimulating growth through the people they educate and through their research and enterprise activities.

She will be placing particular emphasis on the importance of partnership between universities and businesses to ensure that these benefits are realised.

Queen’s University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Patrick Johnston, will give the welcome address at this prestigious event.

This event is free but pre-registration is required.