Department of Engineering

  • Disassembly of failed appliances to understand how they are made

  • Alumni stories: Meet Hannah Schmitz – the F1 race strategist with nerves of steel

  • It’s all in the wrist: energy-efficient robot hand learns how not to drop the ball

  • PhD student awarded National Fellowship in Fluid Dynamics

  • Cambridge AI expert delivers Future of Compute Review to the UK government

Undergraduate Study

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Graduate Study

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Research

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Latest news

Disassembly of failed appliances to understand how they are made

24 May 2023

A new teaching extension activity for 3rd year students called Product Disassembly was launched last term.

Alumni stories: Meet Hannah Schmitz – the F1 race strategist with nerves of steel

22 May 2023

In Formula One, every millisecond counts. Just ask alumna Hannah Schmitz, Oracle Red Bull Racing's Principal Strategy Engineer, who, on race days, has to instantly react to live scenarios.

It’s all in the wrist: energy-efficient robot hand learns how not to drop the ball

17 May 2023

Researchers have designed an energy-efficient robot hand that can grasp a range of objects –& not drop them– using just the movement of its wrist & the feeling in its ‘skin’