Gerard McGranaghan is a Lecturer and PEM researcher in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at ATU Sligo, with a career spanning advanced research, industrial innovation, and engineering education. He holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in heat transfer and electrohydrodynamics and has deep expertise in thermal sciences, additive manufacturing, and energy systems. His research portfolio includes multiple funded PhD studentships, industry-led projects, and sustained collaboration with companies such as Nexalus, AbbVie, Masonite, Siemens Energy, and Ceramicx. Prior to academia, he held senior R&D roles in industry, where his work on infrared processing for aerospace composites directly led to major commercial contracts and successful EU-funded projects. His professional pathway—from mechanical apprenticeship through senior technical and research leadership—underpins a practice-led approach to teaching, research, and regional engagement.

Teaching Activity

• Developed and taught three contiguous modules, Energy Systems 1, 2, and 3, interlinking Fluids and Thermodynamics, for the L8 in Mechanical Engineering, 2021-ongoing
• Renewable Energy Systems.  2024-ongoing
• Supervisor of over 24 Final Year Projects in Mech Eng, 2018-ongoing
• Gave L9 lecture on Thermodynamics for online and in person BIP, as part of EU Green, Gavle Sweden, May/June 2025
• Delivered interactive lecture on energy, thermodynamics and electronics cooling to Year1 Child Care students in the module "STEAM1 ". March25
• Engineering Materials Analysis and Testing, 2020-23
• Thermodynamics, L8, Years 3 and 4, 2019-2022
• Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2017-22
• Introduction to Industrial Automation 2017-23
• Workshop Theory, Manufacturing Apprenticeship, 2018-23
• Engineering Science,Toolmaking Apprenticeship,  Phase 4/6 2017-19