US military cadets to promote engineering in schools

A GROUP of elite cadets from the US military academy at West Point will this week visit schools in Limerick to share with hundreds of primary students the excitement that engineering and science have to offer.

The University of Limerick is hosting Colonel Stephen Ressler, Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point, two other West Point engineering faculty members and seven military cadets.

They will visit seven primary schools around Limerick to show how civil engineers use maths and science to design the structures that are part of everyday lives.