Department of Engineering

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Institute for Manufacturing Design Show 2023

29 Jun 2023

In the past year, third-year Manufacturing Engineering Tripos students have undertaken a significant design project aimed at creating a new product that holds tangible business potential.

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Meet James Cozens – the Guinness World Record-holding juggling engineer

27 Jun 2023

PhD student James Cozens took up juggling 7 years ago & has become a Guinness World Record holder. He's also developed computer software to analyse & improve juggling skills

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The My Emissions carbon label rates a product or meal from A (Very Low) to E (Very High), based on the ‘per kg’ carbon footprint

Award winning business calculating the carbon footprint of food

26 Jun 2023

What started as a lockdown project by two alumni has grown into an award-winning business which has since expanded far more than either of them could have expected.

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Postgrad research will investigate technique to help beat astronomy’s nemesis: the Earth’s atmosphere

23 Jun 2023

Oana Niculescu’s PhD research is aiming to improve upon solutions to an age-old problem faced by astronomers: how to correct telescope images distorted by the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Alumnus and entrepreneur Tobias Kahnert honoured in Forbes 30 Under 30 list

19 Jun 2023

Alumnus Tobias Kahnert has joined the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. He is helping to change the path of sustainable aviation.

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Project Odysseus: How computer vision and machine learning helped London recover during the pandemic

15 Jun 2023

A monitoring tool, developed and deployed in London during the COVID-19 pandemic, has demonstrated how computer vision and machine learning techniques may benefit public health.

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Diarmid Xu centre Professor Gopal Madabhushi left and Richard Whitehouse, Technical Director of HRWallingford at the Turner Bea

Earthquake induced liquefaction in offshore wind farms

12 Jun 2023

A presentation by PhD student Diarmid Xu on the response of rock-scour protection to earthquake induced liquefaction for offshore wind applications, has won the Cooling Prize.

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Postgraduate Vareesh Pratap awarded scholarship for tech innovation

08 Jun 2023

Vareesh Pratap has secured a Royce@Cambridge scholarship on the impulse programme for tech innovators with his idea for energy profiling of intact in-use vehicles.

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Dr Amparo Güemes González – 2023 Rising Talent Fellow

05 Jun 2023

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Amparo Güemes González has been announced as a recipient of the 2023 Rising Talent Awards by the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science programme. 

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Yi Chen Hock drawing in the Virtual Reality drawing application she developed using hand gesture recognition with an OptiTracked

Art and engineering

31 May 2023

4th year engineering student Yi Chen Hock shares her journey developing her creative and technical skills and offers insights that might help others who are interested in art and engineering.

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