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The Engineering Education for Sustainable Development EESD 2020 conference will be hosted by University College Cork, 7th - 10th June 2020Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD2020) is the 10th iteration of a biennial international conference, since its inception in 2002.The conference attracts engineering educators and academics f…

New appointments join the Centre for Sustainable Development in 2019Two new staff were appointed to the Centre in 2019, to help with the smooth running of the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development.Madeline Woodruff (Msc) joined us as Course Administrator having previously worked at the International Energy Agency and the US National Acad…

Dr Stephanie Hirmer returns to CSD as a Visiting Research Fellow for 2019We are delighted to welcome Dr Stephanie Hirmer as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Development for 2019. Dr Hirmer previously completed her PhD in CSD and is returning to support teaching on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development, primari…

CSD researchers host China Academy for Urban Planning and DesignAt the end of October 2018 Professor Dick Fenner and Dr Leon Kapetas received a joint delegation from Imperial College, London and senior engineers and the Director from the China Academy for Urban Planning and Design. Dick and Leon introduced their work on using stormwater as a resour…

Dr Tim Forman delivers seminar to Jiangsu visitorsIn September 2018, Dr Tim Forman delivered a seminar on sustainability and the built environment to two dozen mayors and politicians from the Jiangsu region in China. With Professor Peter Guthrie, Tim has been collaborating with City, University of London to develop fibre optic moisture sensing for …

Dr Leon Kapetas provides expertise in Peru and discusses SuDS in SuttonIn August 2018, Leon was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund to provide hydrology expertise at a workshop in Piura, Peru. The workshop, which explored resilience in flood disaster management, led to co-creation of an action plan delineating integrated approaches to red…

The Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil programme welcomed a new group of 27 students onto the programme this year, the 17th cohort since the programme began in 2002. The students come from 19 different countries including Bangladesh, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Sudan and Kazakhstan. The average age of the students is 28 as many of them have wor…

ESD MPhil Hand in day 31st August 2018Congratulations to the 2017-18 ESD MPhil cohort who handed in their dissertations by Friday 31st  August. Well done for all your hard work.

ESD MPhil Alumna Dr Tara Shirvani (Queens’ College, 2008) has been named one of this year’s UK Rising Stars in Science and Engineering. WeAreTheCity’s Rising Star Awards focus on the UK’s female talent pipeline below management level and celebrate 100 females from across different industries and professions who represent the leaders and role models…

A report based on Lissie Liddle's PhD study which reviews handpump-borehole implementation in Uganda has recently been published as an Open Report by the British Geological Survey.A report based on Lissie Liddle's PhD study which reviews handpump-borehole implementation in Uganda has recently been published as an Open Report  by the British Geolog…

Many thanks to all the current students who took part in the annual dissertation conference - 16-18th July 2018. The standard of presentations was high and the dissertation topics ranged from biophilia, urban planning and infrastrucuture, circular economy, transport, settlements, water, energy, renewable energy, international development and humani…

The MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development Dissertation Presentations will be held on 16 – 18 July 2018 in LT0, Engineering Department.Please contact Sian Owen  (smo32@cam.ac.uk) if you wish to see the schedule.

Menna Dessouki presented her MPhil dissertation poster at the Resilient Cities 2018 conference (the 9th Annual Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation) in Bonn, Germany.Her research, entitled “Circular Urban Metabolism as a Design Approach for Master Plans”, proposed a framework for circulating resource and non-resource flows within a maste…

ESD Student featured in Gates Trust Research NewsRamit Debnath won a Commonwealth Scholarship to do an MPhil at the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge. Ramit will  study a PhD in Architecture next year  looking deeper into theories around urban rehabilitation and the associated engineering processes. He wants to devel…

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