Members of #student society @cuspaceflight attached a camera to a high-altitude #balloon and launched it into the Earth’s upper atmosphere recently. 🎈
They also attached a cloud-classification payload – designed to identify, categorise and map cloud types based on #altitude, appearance and physical composition. 😶🌫️☁️☁️☁️
The team are hoping to share the recorded footage soon. Keep an eye on their feed or get in touch via the links in their bio @cuspaceflight 📌
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• REPOST @cuspaceflight On 14th March, a team of CUSF engineers launched a high-altitude balloon into the upper atmosphere, carrying a camera and a cloud-classification payload.
After lifting off from the grounds of @churchillcol , the balloon was successfully recovered in Canterbury. This marks CUSF’s first HAB launch in several years and the first to be carried out fully independently.
The camera on the balloon recorded some incredible footage of the sun setting in the upper atmosphere – more footage to follow.
More missions are already in the works, with exciting new payloads being developed by students and our partners.
Curious to see how this clay jar was made? Identified as a mandrake fruit vessel (1479-1425 BCE), this ancient #Egyptian #artefact initially intrigued #Egyptologists at the @fitzmuseum_uk due to its complicated #design. What was it like on the inside? And how did all the different elements connect?
Take a journey on the inside! This unique view of the artefact has been made possible thanks to micro-computed tomography (micro-CT).
Professor Graham Treece, from the Department of #Engineering’s Medical Imaging Group, part of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, was able to show – by careful analysis of micro-CT – how the 19-cm-tall artefact had been made. Micro-CT is a non-destructive imaging tool that enables the visualisation of materials of different densities.
After completing the micro-CT scanning, high-resolution #3D images and a fly-through video of the interior of the artefact were then created using a visualisation and analysis package for #3Dimaging data.
🔎 The public can view this artefact and more at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Made in Ancient #Egypt Exhibition which runs until 12 April.
👉 Find out more 📌LINK IN BIO
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What if I'm not good enough? What if I won't succeed?
We all have negative thoughts sometimes, but what are some strategies for challenging them?
@Dr.Olivia.Remes , a mental health researcher at @engineeringatcambridge@murrayedwardscollege , has three questions we can ask ourselves to see if we can let go of those thoughts.
Ask yourself:
1. Is it really true that this thought will happen?
2. Is it in my best interests to think this thought?
3. Will this bring me closer to my goals and dreams?
Explore mental health and wellbeing support and resources for students at tudentsupport.cam.ac.uk or through the link in @CambridgeUniversity 's bio 🔗
#CambridgeUniversity #Wellbeing #ReachOutCambridge #MentalHealth #Cambridge
⭐️ Enterprising Minds: Meet founder and investor Amy Weatherup – a champion of #Cambridge #innovation.
Following a successful exit from an internet #technology start-up, Amy Weatherup has become a pillar of the Cambridge innovation ecosystem as Director of @iteams.cambridge , an investor at – and now co-chair of – Cambridge Angels, and a tireless supporter of an array of businesses, schools and charities in and around Cambridge.
It’s been 20 years since the first Cambridge i-Teams session took place – a programme which continues to shape the next generation of #innovators.
🤔 Were you a part of this programme at any point? Let us know in the comments.
Cambridge i-Teams, which runs termly, brings together entrepreneurial post-grads and early #career #researchers to explore the commercial potential of cutting-edge @cambridgeuniversity #inventions and is open to students and staff from all University disciplines.
🗣 “Everything I do is about creating the space for people to bring their own ideas and fulfil their potential,” says Amy.
📸 credit: StillVision
📌 Find out more about Amy by clicking the link in our bio
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Our Fellow and first–year Director of Studies in @engineeringatcambridge , Professor Anurag Agarwal, is leading pioneering research using artificial intelligence to transform the detection of heart valve disease.
He and his lab have developed an AI algorithm that analyses heart sounds recorded with digital stethoscopes, helping identify life-threatening conditions years earlier than current pathways often allow. In analysis of heart sounds in nearly 1,800 patients, the system correctly detected 98% of severe aortic stenosis cases and 94% of severe mitral regurgitation.
Describing valve disease as a “silent epidemic,” Anurag highlights that many patients remain undiagnosed until symptoms become severe, when outcomes can be worse than some cancers. With further real-world testing, this scalable technology could help save thousands of lives by catching heart valve disease before irreversible damage occurs.
As part of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked three of our graduating engineers to share the stories behind their dissertations – from carbon reduction in concrete, to sustainable timber, to the mystery of the HMS Terror!
Martha, Ella and Roz were members of @newnhamcollege and @engineeringatcambridge and are now part of our @cambridge_alumni 👩🎓
#Cambridge #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #Engineering
What does it mean to think outside the box? 📦
Esdras Paravizo is PhD student at the Engineering Design Centre (EDC). His research focuses on engineering design and creativity, looking at how computational tools can be employed to visualise creativity. This can then provide feedback to designers in educational and practical settings.
Esdras pitched for the @falling_walls competition held at @engineeringatcambridge last summer.
#Cambridge #PhD #Research #Design #DesignInspiration #Brazil
PhD student Shagun Garg, whose #research focuses on improving the detection and mapping of #floods in arid and semi-arid regions, has been named as a top three finalist in the 2025 Allianz Climate Risk Award. 🌍👏
His research sits at the intersection of #Earth observation and water management, focusing on the mapping and monitoring of floods using #satellite data.
His work also explores how evidence-based, #nature-based solutions can help reduce water-related disaster risk and build climate resilience.
📌 Link in bio for more info
📸 credits: Allianz
#climateresilience #floodmapping #floodrisk #satellitedata #engineering #cambridgeuniversity #universityofcambridge #cambridgeuni
Dr Osarenkhoe Ogbeide from our Division of Electrical Engineering has been awarded a Career Development #Fellowship from @theroyalsociety .
This Fellowship supports early career researchers from underrepresented backgrounds in #STEM.
Dr Ogbeide’s #research is at the forefront of #nanoengineered sensing #technology. During his PhD, he pioneered a first-of-its-kind predictive gas sensor capable of identifying and quantifying multiple gases simultaneously in complex environments. This #innovation combined advanced nanostructured materials with machine intelligence to achieve unprecedented sensing performance.
“I hope my journey can inspire others from underrepresented backgrounds to see themselves in STEM,” he said.
📸 credit: Lloyd Mann
📌 Link in bio
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It’s a new year! Welcome 2026 🎊 Here’s a look back at our most liked posts and reels from 2025 - as chosen by you 🫶
#HappyNewYear #topnine2025 #engineeringlife #engineeringstudents #engineeringresearch #cambridgeuniversity #universityofcambridge #cambridgeuni
Last week, a rather lovely thing happened to our Department of Engineering Library team. We were nominated for and won a @cambridgeuniversity Professional Services Recognition Award in the category of 'Creating an Inclusive and Welcoming Community'.
The team received multiple nominations, that included senior staff members across their School and Department, and would like to thank all those who put our names forward and to everyone for their kind words and messages of support.
Words that included: "The team take great care to ensure the library is a space where inclusivity and diversity are celebrated ... They are truly dedicated to creating a welcoming and psychologically safe environment ... The wealth of support provided to the team's nominations is a testament to the work they are doing and how truly valued it is by their colleagues and students."
Photos courtesy of Natalie Glasberg, Nick Saffell, Lloyd Mann and John Durrell.
Electrical #engineer Dr Amparo Güemes Gonzalez is part of a #research team that has been able to measure the electrical signals in the ‘second brain in our guts’ for the first-ever time, giving renewed understanding to its interconnection with the #brain. 🧠
Scientists from our Department, @cebcambridge and @thayerschool have created a miniature device, thinner than the width of a hair, that can be placed between the layers of the #colon to record these signals.
Amparo, Royal Academy of Engineering and Rosetrees Research Fellow at the Bioelectronics Laboratory, Department of #Engineering, said: “With our chronic implant #technology, we can, for the first time, record real-time #electrophysiology signals from the ‘second brain’ in the #gut over extended periods.
“This allows us to study how the gut responds to physiological stimuli, such as stress, and how it reacts to treatments or dietary changes, something that wasn’t possible with previous methods. This opens the door to a much deeper understanding of gut–brain communication and its impact on #health. It was just not possible to do this before.”
📌Link in bio for more info and the research paper
📸 credits: Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB)
#biotech #biotechnology #bioelectronics #cambridgeuni #cambridgeuniversity #universityofcambridge
