Pictured at ATU Galway City are apprentices Gavin Fleming and Alex Duffy from Athlone, with Breda Joyce, Programme Coordinator and lecturer ATU Galway City. Photo: Mike Shaughnessy.

Local students join new ATU civil engineering apprenticeships

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Several local students were among 45 apprentices commenced two new apprenticeship programmes, the B Eng in Civil Engineering by Apprenticeship and the Higher Certificate in Civil Engineering by Apprenticeship, in Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Galway last week.

The students, including Gavin Fleming and Alex Duffy from Athlone, Conaire Martin from Ballymore, and Maeve Reynolds and Tom Colohan from Ballinasloe, began their course on Monday, September 9.

At ATU Galway City for the start of the courses were Darragh Connolly, ATU Galway CIty, students Conor Martin, Westmeath, Luke Ryan, Thurles and Tom Colohan, Ballinasloe. Photo: Mike Shaughnessy.

The new apprenticeship programmes blend online lectures with on-campus workshops and laboratory practicals, with work-based learning at the apprentices' workplaces.

The first week was a residential on-campus week, which involved lectures by guest speakers from the civil engineering industry as well as attendance at construction site visits generously hosted by John Paul Construction and Carey Building Contractors.

ATU is the lead provider for these new civil engineering apprenticeships. ATU Sligo welcomed their first cohort in 2023, and and a further 47 apprentices to the campus this September.

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