Sir James Dyson opens invention powerhouse at the University of Cambridge
09 May 2016Engineering hub focuses on advances including smart infrastructure, electric vehicles and efficient internal combustion systems
Engineering hub focuses on advances including smart infrastructure, electric vehicles and efficient internal combustion systems
Students from six Fenland schools are taking part in a programme designed to encourage students interested in engineering and manufacturing.
The James Dyson Foundation has donated £8m to create a technology hub at the heart of Cambridge, providing the University of Cambridge’s brightest engineers with some of the world’s most advanced engineering laboratories.
A new generation of cheap lightweight plastic electronic technology that does not require silicon, but which is optically transparent and can be coated onto everyday objects, would transform our world.
What’s the point of a brain? This fundamental question has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain controls and predicts movement. In a recent talk for TED, Wolpert explores the research that resulted in him receiving the Golden Brain Award.
First it was the Dambusters raid, now Cambridge University’s Dr Hugh Hunt has helped to recreate ‘The Great Escape’ from Germany’s infamous Stalag Luft III.