Research
The Department of Engineering seeks to benefit society by creating world-leading engineering knowledge that fosters sustainability, prosperity and resilience. We share this knowledge and transfer it to industry through publication, teaching, collaboration, licensing and entrepreneurship. By integrating engineering disciplines in one department, we can address major challenges and develop complete solutions, serving as an international hub for engineering excellence.
Academic divisions
The Department has strengths across the range of engineering disciplines, strengths organised and assured through our divisional structure. Explore our research via that structure by following 'Academic divisions' from the menu on the left.
Strategic themes
Strategic themes running across the disciplines draw these strengths together to address major challenges. Follow 'Strategic themes' from the menu to find out more.
Research topics
The formal structure of disciplines and cross-linking themes described above is enriched by a thriving mix of research topics. These pages highlight a range of those topics, with their multi-disciplinary collaborations and partnerships, both within the Department and outside, with researchers elsewhere, with industry, and with government. Explore the range of topics by following 'Research topics' from the menu.
- Recent research news
- Dow Chemical rewards Cambridge sustainability research
- Matthew Juniper awarded a Visiting Fellowship to the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München in Germany
- Department spin-out company Enecsys goes from strength to strength
- Amantys secures $7 million in funding
- It's a material world
- SPICE Project announced at British Science Festival
- Professor Sir Mark Welland receives two distinguished awards by US government
- Darkness sheds light on neural computations
- Study shows some families have taken steps to avoid feeling overwhelmed by communications technologies