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21 Dec 2020. Researchers have developed a way to use a simple home aroma diffuser to test whether N95 and other types of sealing masks, are properly fitted.

Occhipinti, Director of Research in Graphene and Related Technologies, discusses potential applications of graphene in point-of-care tests.

25 Oct 2023. In a recent article published in Nature Chander Velu, Professor of Innovation and Economics at the IfM, explores the potential impact of quantum computing on growth and productivity.

Trojan horse” treatment could beat brain tumours. A smart technology which involves smuggling gold nanoparticles into brain cancer cells has proven highly effective in lab-based tests. ... Importantly, the research was carried out on cell lines derived

The car will have an engine test Monday night before leaving for Silverstone for a pencilled-in shakedown on the Copse Runway.

30 Jul 2019. The economic value of manufacturing to the UK is being underestimated in official statistics, presenting significant issues for policymakers, according to a new report.

I see those challenges as the need to improve the effectiveness of investments in the economic arena by focusing on continuous improvement. ... One is regional economic development, the argument that if you cannot trade regionally within the continent,

29 Aug 2018. Dr Jostein Hauge, Research Associate in Economic Policy Analysis of Industrial Value Networks, writes for The Conversation.

15 Feb 2023. Three PhD students from the Institute for Manufacturing, successfully facilitated a public live session at the recent World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos.

Quicklinks. Search form. Search this site. News stories archive - 2016. Department of Engineering. News stories archive - 2016.. News stories archive - 2016. 22 Feb 2016. It’s no secret that far fewer females enter into STEM (Science, Technology,

25 Oct 2023. In a recent article published in Nature Chander Velu, Professor of Innovation and Economics at the IfM, explores the potential impact of quantum computing on growth and productivity.

Quicklinks. Search form. Search this site. Winners of 'Engineer in Society' essay competition. Department of Engineering. Winners of 'Engineer in Society' essay competition. Winners of 'Engineer in Society' essay competition. Prizes have been

10 Nov 2021. New business models are essential to unlocking the economic growth potential of digital technologies, and offer a way out of rising debt-to-GDP ratios.

During my doctorate I managed to carry out 700 socio-economic interviews in the slums of India and townships of South Africa to better understand the benefits of engineering interventions like

Given this and its social-economic impact, my research goals generally lie in identifying and exploring cost-effective micro-interventions such as putting humans and their interactions with the built environment

Examples currently in situ include a robotic kitchen and a conveyor belt set-up, with access to motion capture cameras and various test instruments. ... The research, led by Dr Fumiya Iida, Chair of the OHMC committee, was conducted in a test kitchen

Cambridge is one of nine Universities which will test new treatments and ways of working in specific clinical areas to see if they are effective and appropriate for everyday use.

These include infrastructure resilience against technological opportunities and environmental causes; infrastructure resilience in a world of economic, social, political and cultural change; and infrastructure resilience to support urbanisation and

roads. 19 Jan 2024. The University of Cambridge and Imperial College London are to launch a new joint venture to deliver admissions tests for science, engineering and mathematics-based degree courses. ….

13 Feb 2020. The Department of Engineering has joined forces with alumnus Ewan Kirk to launch the Kirk Global Challenge to help jumpstart economic growth in the developing world.

Currently, the key technology used to assess a patient's risk of fracture is a bone mineral density test, which uses dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to estimate mineral levels

The IfM, a division of the Department of Engineering, brings together expertise in management, economics and technology to address the full spectrum of industrial issues.

Quicklinks. Search form. Search this site. Making a global impact: self-healing concrete. Department of Engineering. Making a global impact: self-healing concrete. Making a global impact: self-healing concrete. Cambridge research into self-healing

Latest news. 26 Apr 2023. Owlstone Medical, co-founded by alumnus Billy Boyle, has experienced trial success for its liver disease breath test, following a study involving patients from Addenbrooke’s

21 Dec 2020. Researchers have developed a way to use a simple home aroma diffuser to test whether N95 and other types of sealing masks, are properly fitted.

Occhipinti, Director of Research in Graphene and Related Technologies, discusses potential applications of graphene in point-of-care tests.

The benefits of ever-improving products and services are fundamental to economic and social development; the issues of resource scarcity, environmental damage and social equity are less immediately obvious, but vital ... Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)

Between now and the field trials next year, we plan to produce and test in our laboratories component-scale cementitious products, to integrate the self-healing components developed by the three ... universities and to test one of the objectives of the

Irrespective of their physical scale, emerging technologies have the potential to drive and support sustained economic growth.

25 Oct 2023. In a recent article published in Nature Chander Velu, Professor of Innovation and Economics at the IfM, explores the potential impact of quantum computing on growth and productivity.

15 Feb 2023. Three PhD students from the Institute for Manufacturing, successfully facilitated a public live session at the recent World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos.

A Fellow of Darwin College and author of Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air, Sir David’s work examines the full economic and societal impact of a shift to sustainable energy

biological, social or economic, in both theory and application.

Faraz runs a test of GE's BOP monitoring system. The text in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.

Through the MPhil program in engineering for sustainable development, I hope to evolve my understanding of the complex environmental, social, and economic challenges that face engineers in industry. ... principles. "Studying the workings of aircraft or

Although the robot braille reader was not developed as an assistive technology, the researchers say the high sensitivity required to read braille makes it an ideal test in the development of ... surfaces.”. Braille is an ideal test for a robot

01 Feb 2006. Economic development, increasing global linkages, and continuously declining airfares have made air travel the sector of fastest growth amongst all transportation modes.

The training brought me extraordinarily close with my team-mates, and the race itself was a true test of character that helped me grow a lot personally.

It involved working on a research project on water purification which involved doing tests in rivers in the hilly north-east region of India near where he grew up.

Early tests of the new design showed excellent colour rendering, a wider operating range than current smart lighting technology, and wider spectrum of white light customisation. ... The test showed excellent colour rendering, a wider operating range than

has stood the test of time. ... Development involved the use of a test rig to simulate the motion of a tremor and observe the damping effects of prototype devices, varying flywheel shapes and sizes as well as

Competing in the World Robot Summit was a fantastic opportunity to test CambridgeARM against robots from other world-class research teams. ... Footage of CambridgeARM during the World Robot Summit 2018. “Competing in the World Robot Summit was a

He proposed the Sustainomic Framework at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to practically achieve this goal, based on the sustainable development triangle (with social, economic and environmental dimensions).

Consumer electronics and the internet of things are ideal test beds to exploit the new functionalities offered by the even increasing number of layered materials.”.

Tests on a prototype version of the technology suggest that it could improve road safety by ‘seeing through’ objects to alert of potential hazards without distracting the driver. ... Once the setup is complete, vehicle tests on public roads in

05 Dec 2014. The University is a partner in a three-year, multi-million pound project to test public reaction to driverless cars.

This would make it easier for each local community to be in balance with its immediate environment while achieving its economic goals, and sharing the knowledge of how to do this ... The best known example is the city of Kalundborg in Denmark, in which

The IfM was established in 1998 with the aim of linking education, research and practice and engineering, management and economics with a strong industrial orientation.

Reducing the proportion of fossil fuels in the energy mix therefore makes sense from an economic perspective.”.

These have helped to prevent immediate economic collapse but have drastically increased the ratio of national debt to GDP, storing up economic uncertainty for the future. ... Economic policy should be focused on encouraging this development for the next