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MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development

global challenges, engineering solutions



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Live online information session and Q&A for prospective MPhil students on 15th and 22nd November 2024

14 November 2024

The University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development invites prospective students to a live online information session on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. The session will include a presentation on the course and will give you a chance to ask questions of the course staff. Four sessions are...

ESD MPhil students’ start-up Terracotta Cooling secures runner-up position at the 2024 Cambridge Climate Challenge

2 October 2024

A design proposed by ESD MPhil students Jerrell Ong and Sebastian Lindner-Liaw, working with colleague Eric Tay, has the potential to reduce the energy costs and water consumption involved in cooling data centres in the Global South. The design by Terracotta Cooling would make use of locally sourced and produced terracotta...

ESD MPhil students place in the top three for the International Finance Corporation’s Impact Investing Challenge 2024

22 August 2024

MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development students Ryuta Kuniyoshi and Jocelin Wijaya, together with Cambridge MBA candidate Daisuke Nishizawa, took the second runner-up place at the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Impact Investing Challenge 2024 Grand Finale, in Washington, D.C., after securing a top...

Course Overview

Context

The need to engage in better problem definition through careful dialogue with all stakeholder groups and a proper recognition of context.

Perspectives

An ability to work with specialists from other disciplines and professional groups acknowledging that technical innovation and business skills also must be understood, nurtured and combined as precursors to the successful implementation of sustainable solutions.

Change

An understanding of mechanisms for managing change in organisations so future engineers are equipped to play a leadership role.

Tools

An awareness of a range of assessment frameworks, sustainability metrics and methodologies such as Life Cycle Analysis, Systems Dynamics, Multi-Criteria Decision making and Impact Assessment.