Dr Kevin Berwick

Technical education commenced on the Kevin St. site in 1887 following a campaign by Arnold F Graves, son of the Bishop of Limerick, together with Michael Davitt. Initial funding for the College came from an endowment by the philanthropist Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh. The initial intake of 78 students were taught by 10 staff. Examinations in Electricity and Magnetism, set by the Board of Science and Art in South Kensington in London, were underway as early as 1889. To put this in context,  it was only 6 years earlier,  in 1883, when the world’s first School of Electrical Engineering was established at the Technische Universität Darmstad in Germany.

As time progressed, students were prepared for the Degrees of the Royal University of Ireland, the Royal College of Science, the University of London and the City and Guilds of London Examinations. Programmes in Wireless Telegraphy and Electrical Engineering were inaugurated in 1911.

In the late 1930s, professional and more broadly based programmes in Electronics and Radio Engineering were established. These professional programmes prepared students for external examinations conducted by the British Institution of Radio Engineers, now the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Technician Programmes were mainly directed towards qualifications of the City & Guilds of London Institute.

With the outbreak of World War II, the demand for Courses increased greatly, with new Programmes for Aircraft Radio Officers and Radar. By the end of the War, the student body in Kevin St. had expanded to 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new building was completed in 1968 and around the same time, the College began to award its own Certificates and Diplomas.

1978 saw the incorporation of the Kevin Street College into the Dublin Institute of Technology. In 2014 a   merger of the School of Electronic and Communications Engineering and the School of Electrical Engineering, both on the Kevin St. site,  created the largest School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the British Isles.

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2019 saw the establishment of TU Dublin and a merger with Electrical Engineering Schools in Blanchardstown and Tallaght.

In 2021, the School moved to Central Quad at the brand new Grangegorman campus in central Dublin.

The School has a very proud history and our School Archivist, Mr. Desmond Kernan, maintains an extensive School Archive, consisting of documents, photographs and equipment of historical interest.