CIT entrepreneur wins €4k award

THE title of Cork Institute of Technology Entrepreneur of the Year 2011, and a cash prize of €4,000, has been awarded to Myles Murray of PMD Solutions, a student of CIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.

His project, Breath Counter: The Patient Friendly Respiratory Rate Monitor was supervised by senior lecturer, Sean F O’Leary.

Eamon Hayes, also a student of Mr O’Leary, was awarded the Most Technically Innovative award with a prize of €2,000. His project, SafetyFirst, a cover system that can be retrofitted to any wire rope barrier system, will, while retaining all the positive features, remove the “cheese cutter” effect.