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Latest News Academic honour for Professor Dame Ann Dowling 16 May 2013 Professor Dame Ann Dowling, Head of the Department of Engineering, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Imperial College, London. [more] Engineering academics to speak at Hay Festival 15 May 2013 Professor Sir Mark Welland and Dr Tim Minshall have been invited to take part in this year's Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts. [more] Institute for Manufacturing to host 2013 Design Management conference 13 May 2013 Following the success of the first Cambridge Academic Design Management Conference (CADMC) in 2011, the 2013 conference will be held on 4 and 5 September at the Department's Institute for Manufacturing in Cambridge. [more] Engineering Enterprise Fellowship for Dr Damian Gardiner 9 May 2013 A research associate from the Department of Engineering has been awarded an Engineering Enterprise Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng). [more] Cambridge University Engineering Society: from Journal to Magazine 7 May 2013 PhD student Tafara Makuni is a pioneer of the initiative to rebrand module assignments by writing them in layman's terms for The Cambridge Engineer, the Cambridge University Engineering Society's (CUES) magazine. [more] Cambridge researchers contribute to the latest standard on smart cable television 2 May 2013 The Department of Engineering recently hosted the 4th International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Focus Group Meeting on Smart Cable Television. [more] Materials for Life: Ground and Structural Engineering Challenge 29 April 2013 The Department of Engineering will play a major part in a new £3.1M EPSRC and industry funded UK Centre of Excellence on Intelligent Construction Materials from the recent EPSRC Ground and Structural Engineering Challenge call. [more] Diagnosing disease could be as simple as breathing 25 April 2013 A range of diseases and conditions, from asthma to liver disease, could be diagnosed and monitored quickly and painlessly just by breathing, using gas sensing technology developed by a Cambridge spin-out. [more] New system to combat online banking fraud 22 April 2013 A security solution which protects against the most serious threat to online banking customers, responsible for millions in annual losses, is being rolled out across Europe by a Cambridge University spin-out. [more] Data Compression - a Naked Science radio interview with PhD student Christian Steinruecken 18 April 2013 It is not just new technology that could help us to store digital data in the future. Already, we compress some data so that it takes up a lot less space. [more] UK-India Advanced Manufacturing Research awarded £1 million funding 16 April 2013 The Department of Engineering's Centre for International Manufacturing (CIM) has won a major new grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of India in response to a research call facilitated by Research Councils UK and the UK Science and Innovation Network. [more] Construction Engineering Masters Programme success stories 15 April 2013 Congratulations go to Richard Key and Chris McKinstray, students from the Construction Engineering Masters Programme, on their recent awards. [more] Sustainable design competition 12 April 2013 GreenBRIDGE and the Living Laboratory for Sustainability (Living Lab) have teamed up to create the Sustainable Retrofit Challenge 2013 competition. With up to £1000 in cash prizes on offer, the organisers are looking for students from varying backgrounds to propose innovative yet realistic design solutions for an existing building at the University of Cambridge. [more] Student Robot Challenge success 11 April 2013 A two-man team from the Department of Engineering has won a Student Robot Challenge hosted by MathWorks at its new offices in Cambridge. [more] Braking revolution 8 April 2013 Braking technology set to shave a massive 25% off truck stopping distances looks set to come to fruition this year. However, its developers believe their systems may not be widely available for at least five years, possibly double that. [more] PhD student George Gordon wins prize for his engineering research presentation in Parliament 3 April 2013 George Gordon, 26, a final year PhD student in optical communications at the Department of Engineering in the University of Cambridge, won Bronze at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of his research, walking away with a £1,000 prize. [more] David MacKay appointed Regius Professor of Engineering 28 March 2013 Professor David MacKay, acclaimed author of "Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air", has been appointed as the first Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. [more] Research highlighted on the cover of Advanced Optical Materials journal 27 March 2013 Researchers from the Department of Engineering have demonstrated the novel utilisation of carbon nanotubes for making high resolution holograms. [more] PhD student wins European researcher award 26 March 2013 Jeng Kanchit Rongchai, a PhD student from the Department of Engineering, has been awarded a CONCAWE 2013 Young Researcher Award at a conference in Brussels. [more] Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering sponsored by Carl Zeiss 25 March 2013 This year’s photography competition, open to all staff and students in the Department, is sponsored by leading optical systems manufacturer Carl Zeiss (electron microscopy division) who have kindly donated four excellent prizes. [more]

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