The Department's Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) played host to 29 GCSE students from Chelmer Valley High School, Chelmsford as part of an outreach project.
Thanks to an ambitious conservation project and some tiny pieces of plastic, the ancient Egyptian mummy case of Hor is now on display in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Jon Johnson, a researcher at the Engineering Department's Institute for Manufacturing, is looking at ways of making the process of commercialisation more efficient.