Department of Engineering

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Latest news

Special configuration of the tip of a crack in silicon

Why materials crack

19 Jan 2009

Dr Gabor Csanyi from the Mechanics, Materials and Design division and his team have recently had a research paper published in the journal Nature.

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Tim Wilkinson uses an Olympus BR11 microscope to display the switching of a lenslet array in his laboratory.

The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals

15 Jan 2009

Dr. Tim Wilkinson has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes to create a reconfigurable three-dimensional liquid crystal device structure

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Benjamin Torrance

Design of a timber framed multi-storey car park

12 Jan 2009

Benjamin Torrance has won 1st prize in the TRADA (Timber Research and Development Association) Timber in Construction Student Prize for his 4th Year MEng project.

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Ibraheem Haneef

Engineering student picks up UK's first ever Best Student Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Sensors

07 Jan 2009

Ibraheem Haneef is the first ever student from the UK to win a best paper award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sensors conference.

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Fireworks

Best Engineering Research in the UK

18 Dec 2008

The Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge has come top of the rankings for General Engineering

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Dr Ioannis Lestas awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship

15 Dec 2008

Dr Ioannis Lestas has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship.

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Postgraduate poster competition

11 Dec 2008

Graduate Students at Cambridge University Engineering Department ((GS)CUED) held their first annual Engineering postgraduate poster competition

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Student numbers are up

08 Dec 2008

The number of students starting the undergraduate Engineering course has seen a substantial increase on previous years

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Earth from 30km

Teds in space

04 Dec 2008

One small step for bears, a giant leap for Cambridge outreach.

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Oliver Turvey

Oliver racing towards a bright future after gaining first motor sport Blue

03 Dec 2008

Oliver Turvey, a fourth year undergraduate here in the Department, juggles a successful international motor sport career with his engineering degree

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