Department of Engineering

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Members of the research team standing in line on the balcony of a stairway with one of them holding the award

Engineers in Society: Digital Futures Team Award

28 Jan 2025

Cambridge researchers and industry partners Costain Group have won an award in recognition of their teamwork on a mobile mapping dataset, generating positive societal impact.

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New overseas decarbonisation project launched with expertise from the Department of Engineering

24 Jan 2025

The University’s overseas research centre launches a new project investigating non-fossil fuel-based pathways for Singapore’s chemical manufacturing industry and energy systems

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iGEM 2024

Cambridge win Gold at iGEM

22 Jan 2025

The Cambridge 2024 International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) team was awarded a Gold Medal at the iGEM2024 Synthetic Biology competition finals at MIT.

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Portrait of Professor Richard Prager unveiled

20 Jan 2025

A portrait of Professor Richard Prager, Head of the Department of Engineering from 2018–2023, was unveiled at a ceremony in the Department’s Boardroom.

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Seen with their University award certificate are six members of the School of Technology Worktribe Readiness Group

Award success for ‘exceptional collaboration and dedication’ across departments

16 Jan 2025

A taskforce set up by the School of Technology to simplify and streamline grant management processes using a new transformative system, has been recognised with a University award.

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Head and shoulders shot of Chris Tagnon

ISMM student awarded Masters in Motorsport Scholarship

15 Jan 2025

Postgrad Chris Tagnon is one of eight graduates of Black and mixed Black ethnic backgrounds to be awarded a Masters in Motorsport Scholarship.

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James Lazenby left receiving the Helios Prize Medal from Professor Colm Durkan

James Lazenby – 2024 Helios Prize winner

13 Jan 2025

PhD student James Lazenby, has been announced the winner of the Department’s 2024 Helios Prize – awarded for research on sustainable energy and/or energy efficiency.

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L-R Peter J. Christopher, Tom Albrow-Owen, Gwen Wyatt-Moon, Oliver Burton

Seeing beyond colour

08 Jan 2025

Four alumni founded Prospectral, a company developing next generation imaging sensors for materials identification using computer-vision.

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Cambridge researchers showcase robots at GLOBALWIIN

06 Jan 2025

Dr Chapa Sirithunge, Dr Yue Xie and Narges Khadem Hosseini attended the Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network Conference.

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From industrial placement to employment – how undergrad Kat Tse secured her first job in race engineering

23 Dec 2024

Fourth-year Engineering undergraduate Katrina Tse is an incoming Graduate Performance Engineer at Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team. Here she details her industrial placement experience.

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