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Congratulations to the MPhil class of 2012 -13 many of whom graduated on July 19th 2014.Photo Credit: Pieter Nixon

The ESD Alumni conference was held on 18th July 2014 at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge. There were 11 speakers at the event ranging from Nick Wordsworth who was a student on the first MPhil programme (2002-03) to Dev Tayal and Caroline Brown  from last year's MPhil.There were four sessions; Tools to get the job done, Energy focus, Industr…

ESD MPhil Alumni, Franco Gonzalez (2010-11), has been quoted in The Economist Jul 12th 2014See article in the Economist: Supercapacitors First one up the drivePhoto Credit: Jochen Van Cauwenberg/Goodwood in the Economist

The ESD MPhil conference was held 14-16 July at the Department of Engineering. Presentations were made by the students and posters were on display in reception. Congratulations to Doros Nicolaides who won the best presentation prize and Jan Monica who won the best poster prize (judged by alumni students.) Photo Credit: Prof Guthrie

The Annual MPhil dinner was held on 16th July in Clare College. The dinner in the Great Hall was preceeded by Reception drinks on the Scholar's Lawn.Photo Credit: Jan MonicaProf Guthrie congratulating Dr Fenner on his promotion

The MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development Dissertation Presentations will be held on 14 – 16 July 2014 in LT0, Engineering Department.

"Collectively we are stronger - engineers generating collaborative solutions to strengthen community resilience post-disaster" Duncan Gibb - Executive General Manager SCIRTThe second lecture of the Institution of Civil Engineers' 10th Brunel International Lecture series was held on Wednesday June 18th at Cambridge University's Engineering Depart…

The Independent newspaper has published an article on it's front page based on a paper by PhD Student Malcolm Morgan and Dr Heather Cruickshank. The paper is about quantifying the extent of space shortages in English Dwellings. The Independent article by Jonathan Brown  is titled "Rabbit-hutch Britain: Growing health concerns as UK sets record for …

ESD MPhil Alumni, Xiangyu Sheng (2012-13), has been published in the NYT Chinese Version. The article follows on from her MPhil dissertation research about air pollution from Beijing Airport.See article in Chinese: tcn.nytimes.com/science/20140611/cc11airport/For more information about Xiangyu: http://www-esdmphil.eng.cam.ac.uk/students/alumniprofi…

ESD ALumni Xiangyu Sheng (2012 -130) has had an article published (in Chinese) in NYT Chinese version. The article is an extension of her M{hil dissertation research and discusses pollution from Beijing new airport.For more information: http://cn.nytimes.com/science/20140611/cc11airport/ 

We are delighted to announce that  Dr Dick Fenner has been promoted to a Personal Readership. Many congratulations Dick!

The lecture will take place on 18th June 2014 in LT0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge. Tea 5.00pm, Lecture 5.30pm.The Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction (CSIC) and the Cambridge University Engineering Department Centre for Sustainable Development are proud to host the second stop of the Brunel International Lect…

TheRetrofit Newsletter for Spring 2014 is now available.

MPhil Student DR ADOLF ACQUAYE (2005-06) acts as Lead Author for IPCC Fifth Assessment Report- Mitigation of Climate Change 2014DR ADOLF ACQUAYE, a graduate of the 2005/06 MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development cohort was a Lead Author in the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report-AR5, …

MPhil Student DR ADOLF ACQUAYE (2005-06) acts as Lead Author for IPCC Fifth Assessment Report- Mitigation of Climate Change 2014DR ADOLF ACQUAYE, a graduate of the 2005/06 MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development cohort was a Lead Author in the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report-AR5, …