Department of Engineering

In the first year of the two-year Manufacturing Engineering Tripos (MET) course, teams of three or four students complete a major design project to develop a new product with real business potential.

Three students studying for an MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence were challenged to create a biologically inspired robot prototype for under $50. The result? A robotic fish with plenty of potential.

Assistant Professor James Taylor and his co-authors Anthony Dickens and Harry Simpson previously of the Whittle Laboratory and Rolls-Royce won the best paper award for their paper "Compressor Tip Leakage Mechanisms" presented at the 2023 Turbo Expo in Boston, USA. 

A student team’s proposal for solar-powered cold storage to address gender inequality and food loss in Ghana’s agriculture sector, has netted them a runner-up position at the grand finale of a worldwide impact investment challenge.

Professor Ioannis Brilakis has received the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC) Tucker-Hasegawa Award for contributions to the field of automation and robotics in construction.

Dr Jossy Sayir has been awarded one of the University’s Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching.

Since March 2023, Matthew Juniper has been a commissioner for the Institute for Government’s (IfG) Commission on the Centre of Government. ‘Power with purpose’ is the final report. The report finds that No.10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office and the Treasury are not equipped to meet the challenges facing the United Kingdom in the 21st century.

Third-year Manufacturing Engineering Tripos (MET) student Kate Lucas has been announced a winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards 2024.

A tiny, flexible electronic device that wraps around the spinal cord could represent a new approach to the treatment of spinal injuries, which can cause profound disability and paralysis.

PhD student Abigail Berhane’s “outstanding” research on the detrimental impact of surface roughness on aero engine efficiency, has been recognised with an award.

Adequate electricity supply in Nigeria remains a persistent challenge but hoping to address this is Nmeso Egwuekwe (MPhil in Energy Technologies) – a recipient of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship – who will focus on energy access for at-need communities in Nigeria and beyond, as part of her PhD, which begins in October.

Three academics from and affiliated to the Department of Engineering are featured in the King's Birthday Honours 2024, which recognises the achievements and service of people across the UK, from all walks of life.

Machines can learn not only to make predictions, but to handle causal relationships. An international research team shows how this could make medical treatments safer, more efficient, and more personalised.

Engineers at Cambridge University have reconstructed a historic bowling machine that bowled out players from the Australian cricket team during a visit to the city more than a hundred years ago.

Researchers have developed tiny, flexible devices that can wrap around individual nerve fibres without damaging them.

Late 2018, during their PhDs in the Engineering Department three friends started a satellite manufacturing company called Exobotics. 2020, they won their first funding; 2022, they delivered their first satellites; 2024, they are on a mission to make space accessible to everyone.

Researchers have developed a method to make adaptive and eco-friendly sensors that can be directly and imperceptibly printed onto a wide range of biological surfaces, whether that’s a human finger or a flower petal.

With the climate impact of shipping increasingly under the spotlight – accounting for around 3% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide – researchers from Cambridge and Singapore have launched a start-up that aims to visualise shipping emissions and help improve the design of future ships.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low-emission concrete at scale – an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero.

Professor George Malliaras and Professor Mihaela van der Schaar have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.