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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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The MX3D Bridge during construction before its installation in Amsterdam. People can be seen working on it in a warehouse enviro

World’s first 3D metal printed bridge involving Cambridge Engineering expertise wins prestigious award  

18 Dec 2024

A 3D metal printed bridge – the first of its kind that allowed partners, including the University, to experiment with new tech like Digital Twins/3D printing – has won an award

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A black and white head and shoulders shot of Wordware co-founders Robert Chandler and Filip Kozera. Both are standing in a relax

AI start-up founded by Cambridge alumni raises $30 million

16 Dec 2024

An alumni duo behind the founding of Wordware – a full-stack operating system for AI development – have secured $30M in seed funding to transform how AI solutions are built and deployed.

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Agri-tech concept showing rows of plants and drones carrying packages

AgriFoRwArdS Cohort 2 – meet the next generation of experts in agri-food robotics

09 Dec 2024

The world's first EPSRC CDT in Agri-Food Robotics is developing a new generation of highly skilled researchers and leaders in robotics and autonomous systems with interdisciplinary expertise.

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Head and shoulders shot of Professor Roberto Cipolla, alumnus Alex Kendall, and Professor Colm Durkan

An audience with Alex Kendall: The Road to Embodied AI

05 Dec 2024

Alumnus Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve, returned to Cambridge recently to give a lecture as part of the Department of Engineering’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

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Quicker, cheaper quality control of safety-critical metal components

04 Dec 2024

By studying how light reflects from the surface of metals, engineers can now tell if manufactured parts meet quality control standards.

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Jonathan Fisher with the 'Peter' Parkinson's device

Biomedical device for Parkinson's shortlisted for the James Dyson Award

02 Dec 2024

Jonathan Fisher was shortlisted for the James Dyson Award for his wearable biomedical device designed to help people suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

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Department spin-out company lands $5.3 million for next-generation VR lens technology

29 Nov 2024

A start-up pioneering nanophotonic lens technology for images that are always in focus – recreating human vision for the ultimate VR experience – has secured $5.3 million.

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‘Palaeo-robots’ to help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

28 Nov 2024

A team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists are using robots to study how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from swimming to walking, about 390 million years ago.

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‘Engineering the Future and the Future of Engineering’ a talk by Professor Mark Girolami

27 Nov 2024

Professor Girolami explored engineering’s vital role in addressing humanity’s most pressing challenges at the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction Distinguished Lecture

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