Department of Engineering

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‘Extreme Sleepover’ – an encounter with ‘Hell’s Gate’

09 Jan 2012

PhD student Robert Hird pitches his tent next to a gas crater in Turkmenistan in the course of his studies on the stability of saline soils.

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Dr Joan Lasenby

Don’s Diary

19 Dec 2011

Dr Joan Lasenby is a University Senior Lecturer in the Signal Processing and Communications Group of the Department of Engineering.

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How advanced behaviour modelling is helping to identify online fraud

12 Dec 2011

 An enterprise with its research roots in the Department of Engineering has developed software that allows companies to track fraud.

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Golden touch makes low-temperature graphene production a reality

08 Dec 2011

A method which more than halves the temperature at which high-quality graphene can be produced has been pioneered by researchers.

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The Institution of Civil Engineers

Innovation in Construction Lecture

07 Dec 2011

The Innovation in Construction lecture, to be held at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) on Wednesday 11 January 2012.

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FBR11 at a wet Hockenheim ring

Full Blue Racing completes a highly successful 2011 campaign

05 Dec 2011

Formula Student is Europe's most established educational motorsport competition, run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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Six steps to a better material world

30 Nov 2011

Every year we make 10 times our own bodyweight of steel, aluminium, cement, plastics and paper, for every person alive.

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James Dyson

Ingenious Britain: Dyson invests £1.4m in academic research at Cambridge

28 Nov 2011

In a £1.4m deal Dyson is funding a Cambridge University, Department of Engineering professorship to support breakthrough engineering and scientific research over the next decade.

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Dr Hugh Hunt

Recreating 'The Great Escape'

28 Nov 2011

First it was the Dambusters raid, now the Department's Dr Hugh Hunt has helped to recreate ‘The Great Escape’ from Germany’s infamous Stalag Luft III.

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Constructionarium

21 Nov 2011

Constructionarium is a hands-on construction experience for third-year Engineering students.

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