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Growing Underground – how smart monitoring is helping an urban farm to flourish

18 Jan 2018

An innovative and award-winning urban farming facility is creating energy-efficient growing conditions in tunnels 120ft below the busy streets of Clapham in London.

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Professor George Malliaras joins the Department

17 Jan 2018

George Malliaras has been appointed as the Prince Philip Professor of Technology.

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Sustainability hacking for a better healthcare system

15 Jan 2018

How do you get medicines to the poor in hard-to-reach areas?

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Cambridge engineer awarded prestigious fellowship

10 Jan 2018

Dr Marina Antoniou has been appointed as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow for the next five years.

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Alumnus Musa Chunge helps build Bridges to Prosperity

08 Jan 2018

Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction MPhil alumnus Musa Chunge is applying his engineering expertise to support the charity Bridges to Prosperity.

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Professor elected to Chinese Academy of Engineering

04 Jan 2018

Professor Dame Ann Dowling has been elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

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Department of Engineering increases student learning with open source Azure service

02 Jan 2018

As the pace of global innovation continues to accelerate, the engineering curriculum is evolving to teach core concepts faster using higher level, open source tools in the public cloud.

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Re-engineering the healthcare system

20 Dec 2017

A new roadmap has been unveiled for engineering and physical science researchers to optimise opportunities for using digital health in remote monitoring and self-management of disease.

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Alumni stories: Changing the face of humanitarian aid in the Middle East

19 Dec 2017

Susan Long, Manufacturing Engineering graduate (2005) from the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), is based in the Middle East and now works for non-profit organisation Field Ready.

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Making the most of the internet of things

13 Dec 2017

Professor Duncan McFarlane, is a pioneer of the internet of things and was part of the research team that coined the term "internet of things" 20 years ago.

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