HighTechElec Transition Year Work Experierence Programme
The CEIA HighTechElec TY work experience programme, which is a collaboration between CEIA, Tyndall National Institute, UCC, MTU and CEIA member companies, is scheduled to take place again in 2025
The week-long programme will consist of careers talks, hands-on workshops, visits to education & research institutes, and a day in a CEIA member company.
The 2025 HighTechElec TY programme will take place from 10 – 14 March 2025.
Applications for the programme are open from 4th to 29th November, and places will be confirmed by 20th December 2025.
Please note that attendance for the full week is mandatory, and up-to-date school insurance will have to be submitted in advance of the programme.
Please register for the 2025 HighTechElec TY programme below (*** NB: make sure your email is correct or we cannot contact you if you are offered a place).
After registering, we will contact you by 20th December 2024 to confirm your place. Make sure to check your email regularly, including SPAM folders. If we offer you a place and you don’t not confirm by return email we will offer your place to another applicant.
CEIA.ie (Cork’s Technology Network)
CEIA.ie represents Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) companies in the Cork region. The demand for highly skilled Electronic Engineering graduates is growing steadily both from the major multinational electronics corporations located here and the indigenous Irish electronics industry. Ireland hosts some of the best electronics companies in the world and in order for these companies to grow and expand we need to ensure a supply of highly skilled, capable and innovative graduates.
Tyndall National Institute
Tyndall National Institute (University College Cork) is one of Europe’s leading centres for ICT research and development. Tyndall has over 450 researchers, engineers, scientists, students and support staff focused on ICT research in a state-of the-art national research facility. Tyndall’s research is guided by finding solutions for the needs of society in Communications, Energy, Environment and Health through the development of new technology in the fields of Photonics, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Microsystems.
The HighTechElec TY Work Experience Programme is a collaboration between CEIA, Tyndall, UCC, CIT and CEIA member companies, developed to give TY students an insight into the high tech careers open to them in industry and academia. Participating students will undertake a week of physics, electronics and technology based workshops, lectures, career talks, and industry placement, culminating in an innovation competition – the TechnoDen. Through meeting and working with scientists and engineers, students will get firsthand experience of the choice of careers available to them. This unique structured one-week programme will provide a positive experience for pupils genuinely interested in taking up a science or engineering career.
CEIA member companies who participated in the 2020 HighTechElec TY week, providing industry placements for TY students were:
Flex
Boston Scientific
Horner APG
Cork Internet eXchange
Moog
S3 Group
Sanmina
Firecomms
Johnson Controls
Pilz Automation
McKesson
Dell
2020 TechnoDen Winners – Week 1:
‘A dopamine level sensor which incorporates the use of microneedles‘.
Eva McDonnell (Ursuline Secondary School Blackrock), Aoife Condon (Mount Mercy College, Cork), and Simon Humphries (St Joseph’s College Borrisoleigh, Tipperary)
2020 TechnoDen Winners – Week 2:
‘IMAGINE INK – The first dyspraxic friendly multi-colored colour-sensing stylus‘.
Aoife Feehan (Colaiste Choilm, Ballincollig), Odhran Russell (CBS Highschool Clonmel), and Cullan Morrissey (Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, Youghal),
