Direction:Managment
Position:Associate Professor
Andro Rurua is a Doctor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Limerick. He has managed a number of interdisciplinary international projects with the focus on education and economic development funded by Tempus, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand Government.
He has experience in working with international organisations such as UNDP, OECD, ESRI Ireland, Vienna Institute of International Economics, World Bank and EU Delegation in Georgia etc: Lake Taupe Development Company, New Zealand. By invitation of the New Zealand Government – Project involved setting up a third level institute and Technological Park based on the successful model of the University of Limerick in Taupo, New Zealand.
Programme for University Industry Interaction PUII, University of Limerick, Ireland – Identifying skills and competencies needed for future employability and provision of education to meet these requirements in Ireland.
Georgia Education Enterprise Project GEEP funded by Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland – In partnership with the Government of Georgia, Research and explore the role to be played by education and training in economic development of Georgia. Main partners in the projects: Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, Georgian Higher Education Sector, the University of Limerick.
Scientific interests / research interests
- Economic and Regional Development in emerging economies
- University Enterprise Interaction, Innovation Management
- Education for Economic Development
Publications
- McQuade, E., and Rurua, A., A method for finding good values of adaptation gains, UKACC International Conference on Control 2008, University of Manchester, September 2008
Rurua A.and McQuade E., “Classroom of the future” , National Instruments Learning with LABVIEW academic seminar, London, UK, April 2004. - Joyce A., Rurua A. and McQuade E., “What is the use of Telelabs”, SEFI 2004 annual conference: Golden opportunity for engineering education, Valencia, Spain, September, 2004.
- McQuade E., Rurua A. and Joyce A., “Tells – a facility for web-based, remote real time laboratory experiments”, Designing the Science Laboratory for the School of Tomorrow: Advanced Technologies in Education seminar organized by the EU commission, Kefalonia, Greece, July 2004.
- Dr. Andro Rurua, Prof. Eamonn McQuade; Achieving Economic Growth and Social Development Through Global Competitiveness. GESARI working papers.
- Dr. Andro Rurua, Prof. Stephen O’Brien, Prof. Eamonn McQuade. “Stability and Performance of an Adaptive Controller”. 25th IET Irish Signals & Systems Conference 2014 and 2014 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communities Technologies (ISSC 2014/CIICT 2014)
Books:
- ავტომატიკა და ტელემექანიკა. საქართველოს ტექნიკური უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა; 1998.
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