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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 to tackle.Trimble Water: Im…

The FIBE2 CDT Centre led a succesful second Open Day session this morning!2 of our Academics, Professor Giulia Viggiani and Dr Cyrille Dunant, gave an overview of their respective project:Mechanical Behaviour of Artificially Frozen Ground: Experimental Observations and ModellingRapid prototyping industrial installationThe session presentation slide…

The FIBE2 Centre will be live on Thursday 13th May (10-11am), for an Open Day session: we are hosting our second and final open day live event for 2021 Admissions round. Free tickets can be booked on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university-of-cambridge-postgraduate-open-day-2-engineering-fibe2-cdt-phd-tickets-148601556255 Come along …

Easter 2021The following are the upcoming Industry Lunchtime Seminars at the FIBE2 CDT Centre, and the Industry Partners who will be presenting:Sergio Solera from Mott MacDonald will speak on Thursday 6th May 2021.Sergio’s presentation is entitled: “Two examples of different geotechnical engineering projects using sheet piles and precast piles”.At …

Cohort 1 has written an amazing first FIBE2 newsletter. It is 8 pages long and conprises the following:Upcoming Events Cambridge Festival Outreach Project Xueying's EnterpriseTech Experience Capturing Changing Activity in London as Lockdown Eases FIBE2's Second Industry Day FIBE Alumni Stories Projects for the FIBE2 2021 Entry Meet the CohortRead a…

FIBE2 Cohort 2 have been busy preparing to inspire the next generation of engineers. Cambridge festival, running from 26 March to 4 April 2021, offers an eclectic mix of over 350 events and activities covering the full breadth of Cambridge research with something for all ages. Cohort 2 have developed a three-part event titled 2100 City of the Futur…

Cambridge University alumna Dr Barnali Ghosh, Technical Director with FIBE2 industry partner Mott MacDonald, has a career dedicated to all aspects of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.  Dr Ghosh will join Engineering in September 2020 contributing to Part IIB course Dynamics in Civil Engineering. The FIBE2-CDT has Infrastructure…

FIBE2 CDT held it's first Industry Day on Zoom and it was a success!  It was very well attended by round 20 industry partners and many academics and students.  The industry partners delivered very interesting talks on their company's roadmap or vision for a resilient infrastructure and their delivery plan for the next 8 years. This was followed by …

Xueying Wang is a student of FIBE2 CDT Cohort1. As part of the FIBE2 CDT’s program, she has joined in and completed an enterprise program launched by the Cambridge Judge Business School called “EnterpriseTECH” with peers from across the University. EnterpriseTECH is a programme with lectures, workshops, supervisions and a team project focussed on t…

The Alan Turing Institute's response to COVID-19 has been very prompt. From early on, the Data-Centric Engineering programme  director, Professor Mark Girolami, and deputy director Dr. Theo Damoulas liaised with the Greater London Authority and Transport for London to launch project Odysseus. The aim of this project is to examine the effectiveness …

The following are the FIBE2 CDT industry partners’ lunchtime seminar series. Lunchtime Seminar on28th April.Speaker: Patricia Guerra-Escobar, Principal Engineer at Geosynthetics.Bio: Patricia is a native of Colombia, where she began her career in Geotechnics, Soil mechanics and Geosynthetics over 20 years ago. As well as Colombia, Patricia worked a…

On Friday 17th of January, the FIBE2 CDT hosted 20 students from the Center for Buildings, Infrastructure and Public Spaces (CBIPS) from ivy-leagued Columbia University, New York. We had a morning of academic endeavour where the FIBE2 students gave presentations on their group project, “Resilience of road infrastructure to the effects of water”. A …

The Autumn Industry Partner Day was a huge success. It brought together a stellar group of round 30 industry engineers from various market-leading civil engineering companies to share experiences and to discuss with FIBE academics how they can engage with the MRes year providing leadership opportunities, education and skills training. FIBE2 Cohort …

It was a beautifully sunny day when FIBE2 held its Industry Partner Day in June 2019. The FIBE2 team welcomed over 50 people at the event which was held at the Moller Centre in Cambridge. The event was centred on the new FIBE2 CDT, it's vision and objectives and the structure of the programme. It was followed by a lively discussion on industry enga…