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Congratulations to the 2015 ESD MPhil cohort who handed in their dissertations by Friday 28th August.Photo credit: Sandra Asgrimsdottir

ESD Alumni Jan Adamowski (2003-04) has been presented an award by the  American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE.) He is the the recipient of the 2015 New Holland Young Researcher Award for his outstanding accomplishments and leadership in the research and teaching of hydrological modeling and forecasting.For more information…

The ESD Alumni conference was held on 17th July 2015 at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge. There were 9 speakers at the event ranging from  Simon Lamb  who was a student on the 2006 MPhil programme to Nils Goldbeck, Angeliki Gkogka and Peter Levi from last year's MPhil.The topics ranged from the winterisation of red cross tents, scenario str…

The ESD MPhil conference was held 13-15 July 2015 at the Department of Engineering. Presentations were made by the students and posters were on display in reception. Congratulations to Nafisa Bhikhoo who won the best presentation prize, and to Tom Niven and Dan Smith who jointly won the best poster prize (judged by alumni students.)Photo Credit: Pr…

The MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development Dissertation Presentations will be held on 13 – 15 July 2015 in LT0, Engineering Department.

ESD MPhil students addressed an audience of over 100 people from Arup on Monday June 29th 2015. Their assignment had been to address a panel of senior directors from international consulting firm Arup in March making proposals as to how they might change their business to embrace sustainability on their large infrastructure projects. The Directors …

Dick Fenner and Malcolm Morgan spent a week in China hosted by Nottingham University's Ningbo campus, about 3 hours drive south of Shanghai, from 14-20 June. This was the culmination of the EPSRC / NSF Clean Water for All initiative which enabled a team of researchers from the UK (including Malcolm and Dick) to work with colleagues from Portland St…

Dick Fenner and Heather Cruickshank recently attended the 7th International Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development which was hosted by the University of British Colombia in Vancouver from 9-12 June. They presented two papers on the use of games in teaching concepts of sustainable development and on exploring the usefulness …

We are delighted to announce that Dr Heather Cruickshank has been promoted to a Senior Lectureship. Many congratulations Heather!

The ESD MPhil Students had a successful visit at Potton Company on Monday 27th of April 2015. Potton Kingspan is a leader company that assembles timber-based structural systems, delivering architectural design and high performance energy efficient solutions into private sector. On the visit the students were received by Mark Stevenson-Managing Dire…

Tom Niven's (ESD 14 -15) change challenge this year was to assess if a worm farm could be used to recycle organic kitchen waste at his College and create compost for the College gardens. An article introducing the project and outlining his findings can be found in the Christs's College Newsletter "Pieces."See page 7: https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.u…

Dr Fenner and Dr Cruickshank recently accepted an invitation to visit SouthEast University In Nanjing, China where they explored a number of areas of possible collaboration with CUED's  Centre for Sustainable Development. These discussions involved the development of joint research proposals, help with setting up new Masters programmes in sustainab…

Samantha Passmore, a current ESD MPhil student, has won an Arthur Shercliff Travel Scholarship 2015. She will be using the award to travel to Honduras to investigate the viability of converting the business model of Water Expertise and Training (WET) Centres run by the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology  (CAWST) from a charity to…

The ESD MPhil students had a successful fieldtrip looking at alternative technolgies in Mid Wales. They visited the Severn Trent Water anaerobic digestion plant Coleshill, Rheidol Wind Farm, Centre for Alternative Technology,  Rhiedol Hydro and Ironbridge Biomass Power station. They met entrepreneurs from Surechill (Cooling technology) and Dulas (s…

PhD student and ESD MPhil Alumni (09-10) Luca Di Mario has an article published in "The Scholar" in which he explains why businesses should get involved in waste recovery in the developing world.See more at: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/wealth-waste