Department of Engineering

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Pictures of inkjet-printed LC laser droplets on to a PVA film

Researchers develop printable lasers

19 Sep 2012

A way of printing lasers using everyday inkjet technology has been created by scientists.

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Sakthy Selvakumaran

Top honour for Engineering alumna

18 Sep 2012

A graduate from the Department of Engineering has been named as one of thirty young rising stars of the manufacturing world.

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Students tackle the crane construction challenge

The Department's Institute for Manufacturing plays host to the next generation of engineers

17 Sep 2012

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.

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Off-shore Wind Farm Turbine

How offshore wind turbines could be more efficient

14 Sep 2012

A Department of Engineering study suggests that offshore wind farms could be 100 per cent more efficient.

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Richard McMahon

The future of energy?

12 Sep 2012

Today, we consume a truly vast amount of energy.

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Ancient Egyptian mummy saved by engineering and LEGO©

11 Sep 2012

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.

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Kristen MacAskill at work in Christchurch, New Zealand

Where are they now?

10 Sep 2012

MPhil graduates return to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) course.

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Lifetime achievement award for former Department lecturer

07 Sep 2012

Dr AC (Ricky) Metaxas has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Under the Microscope: Jet streams

06 Sep 2012

In this video Dr Sungjune Jung shows us the fluid structures produced by the impact of two liquid jets.

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Commercialising medical device design

04 Sep 2012

Jon Johnson, a researcher at the Engineering Department's Institute for Manufacturing, is looking at ways of making the process of commercialisation more efficient.

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