Department of Engineering

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Professor John Clarkson and Dr Anna Mieczakowski

Cambridge Engineering Design Centre's new book on the challenges older users have with digital technology

07 Feb 2013

Dr Anna Mieczakowski and Professor John Clarkson launch the book Ageing, Adaption and Accessibility: Time for the Inclusive Revolution!

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Cromwell Community College students build a truss bridge

Building Bridges with HE Partnership

05 Feb 2013

Students from an East of England community school competed to build the best bridge during a visit to the Department of Engineering.

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Tunnelling beneath buildings in Bologna for a high-speed railway

Tunnelling-Induced Settlement Damage to Masonry Structures

31 Jan 2013

Dr Matthew DeJong and Professor Robert Mair have successfully secured an EPSRC grant for a research project on Tunnelling-Induced Settlement Damage to Masonry Structures.

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Dr Hugh Hunt meets Hamish and Andy

Comedy pair hunt down expert advice

30 Jan 2013

Hamish Blake and Andy Lee have a world-wide following with their Australian Channel Nine comedy show Hamish and Andy's Gap Year. The duo dropped into the Engineering Department.

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Graphene

Europe pledges one billion euros on graphene as platform for emerging technologies

28 Jan 2013

A major research initiative which will create a European network of academics and companies working on graphene has been approved, with the UoC set to take a leading role.

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Alumni discuss their world-wide involvement in Engineers Without Borders

25 Jan 2013

In 2001, a small group of engineering students in Cambridge decided to form a new student society called Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UK).

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Graphene is a one-atom thick layer of carbon atoms

Graphene: Taking the wonder-stuff from dream to reality

24 Jan 2013

A centre for research on graphene, a material which has the potential to revolutionise numerous industries, ranging from healthcare to electronics, is to be created at the UoC.

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Professor Amaratunga delivering the lecture on ‘Being Ingenious at the Nanoscale.’

Professor Gehan Amaratunga delivered the IESL Ray Wijewardene Memorial Lecture 2012

23 Jan 2013

Professor Gehan Amaratunga returned to his birthplace Sri Lanka to give the IESL Ray Wijewardene Memorial Lecture, discussing the exciting possibilities of nano technology.

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Centre for Sustainable Development logo

11th Distinguished Lecture Series in Sustainable Development 2013

20 Jan 2013

The Annual Distinguished Lecture Series in Sustainable Development.

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An early, thorium-based molten salt reactor, pictured in the 1960s

Proliferation warnings on nuclear wonder-fuel

17 Jan 2013

Thorium is being touted as an ideal fuel for a new generation of nuclear power plants, but researchers suggest it may not be as benign as portrayed.

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