Top international award for Emma

FORMER Our Lady’s College student, Emma Branigan, a DCU Applied Physics graduate, has been awarded the prestigious Honours Degree Award of the International Society of Automation (ISA) Annual Awards 2018.

This is awarded, on the nomination of any third-level institution, to the best fourth-year Honours Degree student studying any area of Automation, Instrumentation or Control in Ireland.

Emma’s Final Year Project was entitled ‘ The development of a high-resolution signal acquisition system applied to optical touch detection’ in collaboration with the company Rapt Touch and Prof. Colette McDonagh as Emma’s DCU supervisor.

The ISA Ireland Section will be making the presentation to Emma at their Annual Honours and Awards Ceremony in University College Cork on Wednesday 12th December

Emma (22) now works as an optical engineer with Rapt Touch.