Engineering Department Celebrates 125th Anniversary

This Friday 14 July, the university's Department of Engineering will celebrate its 125th anniversary.

Detail from publicity material celebrating the event: background sketch of machinery and its construction from original drawings by Robert Willis (preserved in his scrapbook, CUED library); colour contour model produced by Mike Frank.

Internationally recognised companies will be joining the department's research groups to celebrate 125 years of engineering excellence in Cambridge this week, and generations of past engineering students will be revisiting the department to join in the celebrations.

Many of the earliest engineering discoveries were made by Cambridge engineers, and have become the foundation blocks of today's technologies.

Whittle's development of the jet engine revolutionised air transport, Baker's steel structures saved thousands of lives in World War II, and Oatley's electron microscopes became indispensable tools in microelectronics.

Today the University of Cambridge's Engineering Department is at the forefront of research and, as the pace of discovery accelerates, is taking research beyond the laboratory to the marketplace by developing strong technological partnerships.

Professor David Newland, Head of the Department, believes that the start of this new millennium is a good time to pause and reflect on the past - but points out that the department is also very much looking forwards to the future:

Further information:
University of Cambridge Engineering Department's home page