Department of Engineering

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Cambridge University Engineering Society: from Journal to Magazine

07 May 2013

In recent years, CUES has been promoting the rewriting of technical pieces of work into layman terms.

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Cambridge researchers contribute to the latest standard on smart cable television

02 May 2013

The Department of Engineering recently hosted the 4th International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Focus Group Meeting on Smart Cable Television.

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Materials for Life: Ground and Structural Engineering Challenge

29 Apr 2013

The Department of Engineering will play a major part in a new £3.1M EPSRC and industry funded UK Centre of Excellence on Intelligent Construction Materials.

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Microscope/Micrograph of MEMS Micro-heating element with integrated CMOS electronic driver and temperature sensing circuits

Diagnosing disease could be as simple as breathing

25 Apr 2013

A range of diseases and conditions could be diagnosed and monitored quickly and painlessly just by breathing, using gas sensing technology developed by a Cambridge spin-out.

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CrontoSign device and image

New system to combat online banking fraud

22 Apr 2013

A security solution which protects against the most serious threat to online banking customers is being rolled out across Europe by a Cambridge University spin-out.

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A Hard Disk with the casing removed

Data Compression - a Naked Science radio interview with PhD student Christian Steinruecken

18 Apr 2013

It is not just new technology that could help us to store digital data in the future. Already, we compress some data so that it takes up a lot less space.

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 Dr Devi Singh, Director of IIM Lucknow, with Professor Sir Mike Gregory, Director of the IfM

UK-India Advanced Manufacturing Research awarded £1 million funding

16 Apr 2013

The Department of Engineering's Centre for International Manufacturing (CIM) has won a major new grant.

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Construction Engineering Masters Programme success stories

15 Apr 2013

Congratulations go to Richard Key and Chris McKinstray, students from the Construction Engineering Masters Programme, on their recent awards.

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Sustainable design competition

12 Apr 2013

GreenBRIDGE and the Living Laboratory for Sustainability (Living Lab) have teamed up to create the Sustainable Retrofit Challenge 2013 competition.

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Professor David Cebon

Braking revolution

08 Apr 2013

Braking technology set to shave a massive 25% off truck stopping distances looks set to come to fruition this year.

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