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Inspirational women engineers

23 June 2016

Four of our Geotechnical students have been interviewed as part of a feature on inspirational women engineers at CUED. The profiles show that women are forging successful paths at CUED in all branches of engineering and at every level. The profiles are online at http://www-womeninengineering.eng.cam.ac.uk/inspiring/index...

Fiona Hughes visited Ecuador with EEFIT mission

9 June 2016

A seven member Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) visited affected regions of Ecuador following the April 16th earthquake near the town of Muisne. The team flew into the city of Manta on May 27th and spent 10 days moving further north, closer to the epicentre, to visit Portoviejo, Bahia and Pedernales...

Raz Jabary wins the Student of the Year Award

18 March 2016

Congratulations to Raz Jabary, a PhD student in the Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group under the supervision of Prof. Gopal Madabhushi, for winning the Student of the Year Award as part of the Most Successful Kurds Awards 2016. Raz received the award on 15th March 2016 from Natalie McGarry MP at the UK Houses of...

Fully-funded PhD studentships available

7 March 2016

Fully-funded PhD studentships are available in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr Giovanna Biscontin. The studentships include both fees and maintenance and have a start date of October 2016. Due to funding restrictions the studentships are only available to UK or EU...

Raz Jabary wins Best Speaker/ Presentation Award 2016

23 February 2016

Congratulations to Raz Jabary, a PhD student in the Geotechnical and Environmental Group, who has won the Best Speaker/Presentation Award at the Second Annual Student Interdisciplinary Conference held at St Edmund's College on 20th February 2016.

Applications for fully funded studentships

23 February 2016

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment (FIBE CDT) are currently looking to recruit talented students to carry out cutting edge research within a broad range of core and interdisciplinary civil engineering topics. A number of fully funded studentships which cover fees plus a...

Saving our concrete infrastructures at the World Economic Forum

10 February 2016

The Department of Engineering was represented at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting by Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who took part in IdeasLab sessions and gender-related events. The combination of such a broad spectrum of people and subjects coupled with the...

Professor Lord Mair gives annual Hinton Lecture

3 December 2015

Professor Lord Mair gave t he Royal Academy of Engineering Hinton Lecture on 24 November 2015. The Hinton Lecture is the flagship annual lecture of the Royal Academy of Engineering. It is named after the late Lord Hinton of Bankside OM KBE FRS FEng, the first President of the Academy. Lord Mair addressed the challenges of...

Professor Mair appointed to House of Lords

13 October 2015

Professor Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS of the Department of Engineering has been appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbencher. As a crossbencher, he will owe no allegiance to a political party and will maintain the ability to take part in legislative debates free of party considerations. Professor Mair is a...

Welcome reception for new students and visitors

12 October 2015

A very warm welcome was given to our new post graduate research students, fourth year students and visitors joining the Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group in Division D at a reception on 9 October 2015.

Inspirational women engineers

Fiona Hughes visited Ecuador with EEFIT mission

Raz Jabary wins the Student of the Year Award

Fully-funded PhD studentships available

Raz Jabary wins Best Speaker/ Presentation Award 2016

Applications for fully funded studentships

Saving our concrete infrastructures at the World Economic Forum

Professor Lord Mair gives annual Hinton Lecture

Professor Mair appointed to House of Lords

Welcome reception for new students and visitors

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