Traffic fumes from individual vehicles are decreasing every year as engines become cleaner, but there are more vehicles on the road and the number continues to grow.
Dr Tom Reynold's Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture 'The future of civil aviation - the approach of the silent aircraft' was webcast live from the BA Festival of Science last week.
Professor John Clarkson Director of the Department's Engineering Design Centre (EDC) gave the opening presentation on 'Inclusive Design' at a recent Horizon seminar.
Boys from The Perse School in Cambridge got the chance to be engineers for a day last week, when they met Cambridge University researchers who are trying to design a ‘Silent’ Aircraft.
