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FIBE2 Autumn Industry day and Debate

20 October 2022

Fibe2 CDT went the whole nine yards and put on a showcase extraordinaire on 19th October 2022. The day started with the Autumn Industry Day, building bridges between academia and business at the state-of-the-art conference centre Moller institute in Churchill college, and culminated with an intellectual Cambridge...

FIBE2 Cohort 4

7 October 2022

Cohort 4 comprising 10 students joined FIBE2 CDT in October 2022. Following a week of induction activities where they got to meet each other, the FIBE2 staff team and students from the Cohorts 1 - 3, Cohort 4 got started into the MRes year curriculum with a whirlwind of lectures, electives, coursework and lunchtime...

Cohort 1 student, Xueying Wang in International Women in Engineering day podcast

21 June 2022

To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, Xueying has taken part in 'Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow'; the very first episode of 'Connecting the country' - podcast by @National Highways, the government-owned company responsible for motorways and major trunk roads in England. “I encourage all the...

2022 Spring Industry Day a huge success!

25 March 2022

The March 2022 FIBE2 CDT Industry Day was the best one yet! The objectives were to: a) provide progress updates; b) facilitate engagement between students, industry partners and academics; c) collect industry feedback. All objectives were met. We started with a quick round of updates from the investigator team on...

A Close Look at Research Projects in Cohort 3

17 February 2022

This October, we were very happy to welcome 10 new students in Cohort 3 joining the FIBE family. Now it is nearly the end of their first term, we have conducted a survey to find out what they are doing recently with their research. Let's have a look! El-Amin Ahmed El-Amin is supervised by Julian Allwood and is sponsored by...

Cohort 3 is here!

8 October 2021

A very warm welcome to Cohort 3 who are starting their 4-year MRes + PhD this Michaelmas in the FIBE2 CDT programme. This year's cohort comprises a good mix of UK and international students including a selection of Cambridge University's very own graduates. The induction week went off to an exciting start with a flurry of...

Engineering Day Outreach at St Margaret's Preparatory School

9 September 2021

FIBE2 Cohort 2 students Douglas Morley and Benjamin Boys spearheaded an Engineering Day Outreach at St. Margaret's Preparatory School. The pupils at the school were introduced to what it was like to be an engineer and what environmental challenges engineers of the future would be facing. They were then put into teams and...

2021 Summer Industry Partner day

2 July 2021

The FIBE2 CDT 2021 Summer Industry Partner day was a huge success and well attended by partners from industry, academics and students alike. The event started with a welcome from Dr Ioannis Brilakis, contact for Industry partners followed by updates from the FIBE2 academics and staff on the FIBE2 programme. Cohort 1 PhD...

Dr Kristen MacAskill named a winner in 2021 Top 50 Women in Engineering award

1 July 2021

FIBE2 MRes Students: Mini-Project presentations, 17th May 2021

24 May 2021

Last week saw the culmination of the FIBE2 CDT students’ hard work on their MRes mini-projects. Each student presented their findings to an online audience of peers, academics from the Division and representatives from the sponsoring companies. This year we had three companies setting the students an overarching challenge...

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Bridge Talk and Tour

27 June 2023

Bridges define places, we are able to recognise places from bridges be it Tower Bridge in London or the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. So why are bridges important to Cambridge? It’s in the name! Cambridge is defined by its bridges. Professor Chris Burgoyne Chris Burgoyne, Emeritus Professor in Structural Engineering...

National Highways PhD Conference 2023

13 June 2023

On Monday 12 th of June, FIBE2 CDT students attended the National Highways PhD Conference in Birmingham. The Conference was based on the theme of Delivering the Future - Safe, Reliable and Sustainable Highways. The event brought together many leading figures in National Highways notably CEO Nick Harris, Chief Scientific...

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