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Presentation
  • Duration: 2 mins
  • Publication date: 26 Jul 2018
  • Part of series Born to Engineer

Abstract

Growing up in rural Ireland, Orla Murphy remembers how exciting it felt when her family's tractor was upgraded to include a fitted radio. As an engineer with Jaguar Land Rover she's working on ways to ensure that the software that drives every function of modern vehicles can be downloaded remotely wherever they are in the world. Orla Murphy studied Electronic and Music Engineering at the University of Glasgow. She was the IET’s winner of the 2015 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award. 

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  • app
  • car
  • ecu
  • electronic controller unit
  • electronics
  • engineer
  • problem solving
  • software
  • sota
  • vehicle

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  • Orla Murphy

    Orla Murphy

    Jaguar Land Rover, Audio Engineer

    Orla Murphy is an audio engineer at Jaguar Land Rover. Orla realised her love for Science and Engineering when she led a school project on bubbles at the age of 16, which won first prize in the Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry section of the BT Young Scientist Competition and also won Special Award from the Institute of Physics.She then went on to complete an MEng degree in Electronics with Music at the University of Glasgow, completing part of her studies abroad at the University of Radford in the USA.Throughout her time as a student she won a variety of awards and bursaries for both Engineering and Music, including the Eilidh Reid Foster Prize, the William Wilson Scott Award, the Sir Thomas Beecham Scholarship and the Glasgow University Engineer’s Society Medal.A keen musician, she plays viola and has performed around the world. She is a staff member at the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and a member of the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra.With her day to day job she combines her passion for music and acoustics with her drive for problem solving- to help produce exciting sound systems and features in Jaguar Land Rover vehicles.
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