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Read more at: ESD MPhil students’ start-up Terracotta Cooling secures runner-up position at the 2024 Cambridge Climate Challenge
Terracotta Cooling: Sebastian Lindner-Liaw and Jerrell Ong

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...

Read more at: ESD MPhil students place in the top three for the International Finance Corporation’s Impact Investing Challenge 2024
MPhil ESD students Jocelin Wijaya and Ryuta Kuniyoshi

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...

Read more at: Important information for applicants: application deadline for 2024-25 is 16th May

Important information for applicants: application deadline for 2024-25 is 16th May

27 April 2024

We will be closing applications for the 2024-25 cohort on the 16th of May this year due to the high number of applications already received. Please be sure that all documents - including references - are upoaded by this date.

Read more at: ESD MPhil lecturer contributes to the 2024 Asia-Pacific SDG Partnership report

ESD MPhil lecturer contributes to the 2024 Asia-Pacific SDG Partnership report

22 February 2024

ESD MPhil lecturer Edoardo Borgomeo of the Centre for Sustainable Development was one of the lead authors of the 2024 Asia-Pacific SDG Partnership report People and Planet: Addressing the Interlinked Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Hunger in Asia and the Pacific . This is the annual flagship publication of the...

Read more at: Live online information session and Q&A for prospective MPhil students on 17th and 24th November 2023

Live online information session and Q&A for prospective MPhil students on 17th and 24th November 2023

10 November 2023

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...

Read more at: MPhil funding opportunity available for students from Africa

MPhil funding opportunity available for students from Africa

3 November 2023

The Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil is one of the courses that is eligible for funding under the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Cambridge . The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program is designed to provide talented students from economically marginalised and hard-to-reach communities in Africa with...

Read more at: Seven Challenges for Sustainable Infrastructure - a blog article by Professor Richard Fenner

Seven Challenges for Sustainable Infrastructure - a blog article by Professor Richard Fenner

3 March 2023

A new blog article by Professor Richard Fenner, released in conjunction with the release of the fully-revised second edition Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice by Fenner, Ainger and Sykes, highlights a range of critical issues that must be overcome in developing sustainable infrastructure systems that...

Read more at: Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice – fully revised second edition now available

Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice – fully revised second edition now available

3 March 2023

Professor Richard Fenner , Charles Ainger and former Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil student Judith Sykes have recently released the updated second edition of their book Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice with ICE Publishing. The book is a practical handbook to help engineers deliver...

Read more at: New study co-authored by ESD MPhil lecturer André Cabrera Serrenho identifies methods to reduce fertiliser carbon emissions by up to 80% by 2050

New study co-authored by ESD MPhil lecturer André Cabrera Serrenho identifies methods to reduce fertiliser carbon emissions by up to 80% by 2050

16 February 2023

A new study by Dr André Cabrera Serrenho and Dr Yunhu Gao has mapped the global flows of fertilisers and their emissions. Their work, featured in February’s Nature Food, has established that the production and use of nitrogen fertilisers accounts for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions and that around two-thirds of...

Read more at: Funding opportunity available for students from Africa

Funding opportunity available for students from Africa

25 November 2022

The Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil is one of the courses that is eligible for funding under the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Cambridge . The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program is designed to provide talented students from economically marginalised and hard-to-reach communities in Africa with...

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.

 

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