Cambridge University Engineering Department

(The Cambridge University crest) (A view of the Department)


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Open Day on 5th July 1996

Introduction

The Engineering Department teaches and conducts research in all the main branches of engineering except for Chemical Engineering which is a separate department. There are more than 1,000 undergraduate and 300 postgraduate students in the Department; the standard of both undergraduate and graduate entry is exceptionally high.

The Head of the Department is Professor A.N. Broers, and the present staff of the Department consists of: 17 Professors; 10 Readers; about 90 Lecturers and Assistant Lecturers; and about 30 other academic staff including 10 Computer Officers. It is possible to search for people in the Department.

There is a student-run Engineering Society.

For administrative purposes the Department has a divisional structure:

Division (e-mail divisional secretary)
Description
A
Acoustics, fluid mechanics, turbomachinery and thermodynamics
B
Electrical engineering
C
Mechanics and materials
D
Civil, structural and environmental engineering
E
Manufacturing and management
F
Information engineering : control, communications and computing.

A map showing how to get to the Department and various Photographs of the Department are available.

Departmental News

People

If you want to find the e-mail address or telephone number of someone in the Department, try entering their surname in the database search. If this fails or if you require administrative e-mail addresses, a list of such addresses and phone numbers is available.

Research

The Head of Department's Annual Report contains details about the Department's research activities and an alphabetical list of research staff and students' Home Pages is available. Some groups also have Home Pages:

Teaching

All undergraduate students take the same courses in their first two years, before specialising in their third and fourth years. The four-year course leads to the degrees B.A., M.Eng. for all branches of engineering.

Computing

Information resources in Cambridge and elsewhere


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