Dr. Maria Kyne:

We have had a similar experience to Professor Looney. Students come on site for a period or we go out to schools and give a module on, for example, engineering and then bring them into our labs. We help them to design a product and then bring them into the lab and let them build it. We let them use computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing, CADCAM. They build the product and bring it home. They then have a small little piece they created themselves to look at in their bedroom. That comes under the Engineers Ireland Engineering Your Future programme. The professional bodies help us to create these programmes and support us in offering them. We try to target girls in transition year in particular. We go into girls' schools that have no experience of the engineering subject at leaving certificate. This is completely new to them. That programme is run over six weeks. It is a long-term programme. They design something, build it in our labs and then have it at home to look at and say, "I did this."