Alumni of the Department of Engineering have gone on to found Optalysys, a company with the goal of making computer processors that use light instead of electricity.
An academic equipped with just a pencil and paper invented a new suspension component which involved code names, Formula 1 victories and claims of industrial espionage.
Department of Engineering PhD student Thang Bui has been awarded one of 15 prestigious Google European Doctoral Fellowships for his research into speech technology.
Two PhD students in the Structures group Rob Foster and Corinna Datsiou have won prizes at the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Young Researchers' Conference.