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The ESD MPhil conference was held 11-13 July 2016 at the Department of Engineering.Presentations were made by the students and posters were on display in reception. Congratulations to Heather Norton who won the best presentation prize, and to Menna Dessouky who won the best poster prize (judged by library staff.)The Annual MPhil dinner was held on …

A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, to work on the EPSRC funded project "Achieving Urban flood resilience in an uncertain future", which will be delivered by a consortium of 9 UK Universities.Centre for Sustainable Development, EngineeringCLOSING DATE 12th September 2016The post holder will be loc…

Tahawar Hussain Syed was part of the winning Fitzwilliam College cricket team in the inter collegiate cricket cuppers competition.Fitzwilliam College won the title for the first time since 1972, defeating Girton college by 3 runs in the final.

The MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development Dissertation Presentations will be held on 11 – 13 July 2016 in LT0, Engineering Department.Schedule attached

Secret aid worker: my bra stopped me from running into the path of gunfireRead Ces O'Hanlon's (ESD MPhil 13-14) "Secret Aid Worker" article in the Guardian about her work in South Sudan with Medicins Sans Frontieres.Ces is currently on her first mission for MSF, working as a Water and Sanitation engineer (WatSan) in Lankien, South Sudan, which is t…

Dr Dick Fenner, co-author of 'Waterworld' featured in Horizons Issue 30, discusses flood risk within urban environments and how to combat flood risk through infrastructure.See attached pdf of Waterworld article

ESD MPhil (39 of us!) went to a splendid Jesus Formal on Tuesday night.We missed those who couldn't make it.Thank you to Elena for arranging the event, to Peter for last minute ticket requirements and to the ESD students for inviting Dick, Dai and Sian.Congratulations to Madison and Peter who won the table football and apologies to Matthew who had …

Aurelia Hibbert, Programme Director, Cambridge University Eco Racing in video about the Department's Solar CarSee the link to the Telegraph article with the CUER video from the Dyson Opening: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/08/inside-dysons-new-engineering-centre-at-cambridge-university/

Jaspreet Singh has won a 90 second video competition based within Arup.Winners win a financial donations on a cause he/she supports. As one of the winners he was granted £4000 for Agastya (an NGO based in India). Jaspreet created a 90 second video on Agastya’s Raspberry Pi project. The project is aimed at teaching students in rural India using digi…

Students from the MPhil in ESD presented to a high level industry panel including senior directors from ARUP and Buro Happold, sharing their insights into carbon labelling for large infrastructure projects.Students from the MPhil in ESD presented to a high level industry panel including senior directors from ARUP and Buro Happold, sharing their i…

The First Embodied Carbon Academia-Industry Symposium was held on April 11th 2016, with fifty invited participants representing leading industry practice and academic research within the UK. In her key note speech, Dr Alice Moncaster set out the purposes of the day as: to identify the current state of the art in both research and practice; to ident…

The ESD MPhil Students were given the opportunity to visit Crossrail on Tuesday 22nd of March 2016. The ESD MPhil Students were given the opportunity to visit Crossrail on Tuesday 22nd of March  2016. Crossrail is a major new cross-London railway aiming to improve travel across the city, ease congestion, and provide better connections. The visit t…

The ESD MPhil students had a successful fieldtrip to Mid Wales at the start of April. The purpose of the Field Trip was to visit a number of organisations dealing largely in Development, Energy, or Sustainable Technologies mostly in the CONTEXT of mid Wales. The students visited the Severn Trent Water anaerobic digestion plant Coleshill, Centre for…

Dr Dick Fenner and Dr Feriha Mukuve (ESD MPhil 10 -11, PhD 12 -15) have been awarded the prestigious Senior Moulton Medal for 2015 by the Institution of Chemical Engineers for their paper "Scale variability of water, land and energy resource interaction and their influence on the food system in Uganda" published in Sustainable Production and Consu…

Two 2010-2011 ESD alumni, Paul Cassell and Alexandra Pearson, and guest ESD lecturer, Ian Ellison, are amongst the co-authors of a circular economy case study published this week. The case study explores the lessons learnt from the REALCAR closed loop value chain project between Jaguar Land Rover, Novelis, Innovate UK and partners, in the creation …