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PhD student Juan Canavera Herrera wins First Prize again at Transport Hackathon in Montreal.

26 May 2017

Congratulations to FIBE PhD student Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera who is clearly on a winning streak. In February, Juan and his team won the Transport Hackathon organised by CUTEC - Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club. Part of his prize is to travel to Canada and participate in the global showdown in the...

FIBE Outreach at Cambridge Science Festival

24 May 2017

In true FIBE ethos to incorporate Outreach in its activities, staff and students at FIBE-CDT volunteered at the Cambridge Science Festival. Each year the Engineering department Outreach Officer, Maria Kettle, organises a day at the Cambridge University Centre for fun DIY projects with an engineering twist for primary-...

PhD student Tim Hillel to speak about his research on Transportation at Pint of Science Festival

11 May 2017

2nd-year PhD student Tim Hillel, will be joining other academics at The Architect pub for the Pint of Science Festival event on "Moving Fast: The Future of Transportation". Tim whose research interests lie in transport modelling, machine learning and big data says "My talk for the Pint of Science festival, titled “What...

Paula Block nominated for CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards

4 May 2017

Congratulations to Paula Block for being nominated by the FIBE CDT students for the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards. Paula has been shortlisted in ‘Supporting Students Category’. The Awards and Commendations were presented at a ceremony on 9th May at the Gonville and Caius Library. CUSU’s Student-Led Teaching Awards are...

Team Planit Green wins Carbon Challenge Award

11 April 2017

First year PhD students Melanie Jans Singh and Mark Allen as well as MRes student André Neto-Bradley, part of team Plant It Green have been awarded £24,000 in the Carbon Challenge Award. This project feeds into all of our research and will be used as a test bed for this novel and new concept. - Mark Allen The Cambridge...

Mini-Project Presentations

30 March 2017

Cohort 3 's presentations on the Lower Thames Crossing and the UK's Nuclear Future infrastructure projects

Congratulations to Professor Al-Tabbaa for the EPSRC funding of the Resilient Materials for Life Programme Grant

20 March 2017

Congratulations to Professor Al-Tabbaa for the EPSRC funding of the Resilient Materials for Life Programme Grant. The Resilient Materials 4 Life (RM4L) project, supported with an investment of £4.7 million by EPSRC, will look to build on the success of the Materials 4 Life (M4L) project that has led to major advances in...

PhD student Juan wins trip to the first Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon in Montreal, Canada

28 February 2017

FIBE Cohort 2 student Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera went to a Transport Hackathon at the IfM organised by the CUTEC - Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club, where the idea was to come up with innovative digital and technical solutions to solve the congestion and transport problems of Cambridge. He was part...

FIBE Festive Take on Civil Engineering Construction

14 December 2016

MRes students André Neto-Bradley and Mar Gimenéz take Civil Engineering Construction to a festive level with their self-made Gingerbread House. Their carefully constructed Gingerbread House is a replica of the new Dyson Building on the Engineering Department site in Cambridge. The Dyson Building is also the new home of...

FIBE Director, Prof Abir Al-Tabbaa, attends ICE Fellows' Christmas Reception

14 December 2016

Professor Al-Tabbaa attended the ICE Fellows’ Christmas Reception on Monday 5 December at One Great George Street at which Lord Heseltine was invited to give the keynote speech. As the commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission and chair of the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission, Lord Heseltine spoke of his...

PhD student Juan Canavera Herrera wins First Prize again at Transport Hackathon in Montreal.

FIBE Outreach at Cambridge Science Festival

PhD student Tim Hillel to speak about his research on Transportation at Pint of Science Festival

Paula Block nominated for CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards

Team Planit Green wins Carbon Challenge Award

Mini-Project Presentations

Congratulations to Professor Al-Tabbaa for the EPSRC funding of the Resilient Materials for Life Programme Grant

PhD student Juan wins trip to the first Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon in Montreal, Canada

FIBE Festive Take on Civil Engineering Construction

FIBE Director, Prof Abir Al-Tabbaa, attends ICE Fellows' Christmas Reception

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