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Professor Robert Lark with self-healing concrete

Boost for self-healing concrete

16 March 2017

Over £4 million awarded to new Resilient Materials 4 Life project

EU funds

EU funds to boost urban energy efficiency

6 March 2017

Research projects secure almost £1m from EU

Port Talbot steel works

Mapping future emissions in Wales

2 March 2017

Cardiff University academics partner with BRE to forecast Wales’s future carbon emissions

Ser Cymru II

Cardiff University welcomes Sêr Cymru II Fellows

2 March 2017

Early-career researchers from across the world have been welcomed to Wales as they embark on the next stage of a £45m Welsh Government-funded programme to increase the economic prosperity by attracting the brightest minds to the country.

Compound semiconductor research equipment

£2m equipment award for Hub

27 February 2017

EPSRC funding strengthens Cardiff’s new CS Manufacturing Hub

Diamonds on computer display screen

Cardiff scientists in £4m bid to find tomorrow’s technologies

17 February 2017

University joins EPSRC consortium

Meeting energy challenges on an industrial secondment

7 February 2017

Dr Liana Cipcigan has collaborated with the National Grid to overcome challenges in the emerging energy sector during an industrial secondment.

Flexis Launch back drop

Multi-million pound energy project gets underway in Wales

3 February 2017

Consortium of Welsh universities begin £24m project aimed at transforming the UK energy sector and achieving a low carbon future

Student Mazin Muhssin speaking at the conference

Research student wins Best Conference Paper Award

30 January 2017

Engineering student, Mazin Muhssin, has won a Best Conference Paper award.

Researcher looking at compound semiconductor

£13m EU funding boost for Compound Semiconductors

30 January 2017

Backing will help build and equip Institute’s clean room

Osteoarthritis smart patch

Osteoarthritis smart patch

24 January 2017

Researchers from the School of Engineering look to develop diagnostic device for knee disease

Jon Runyon awarded scholarship

Cardiff University Student Awarded Scholarship at World Leading Gas Turbine Institute

23 January 2017

Cardiff University PhD student, Jon Runyon, has been awarded a scholarship place from the prestigious ASME International Gas Turbine Institute.

Professor Hywel Thomas

Royal recognition

3 January 2017

Cardiff University experts recognised in Queen’s New Year Honours list

School of Engineering part of new £10m Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub

6 December 2016

Engineering is part of a new £10m grant to support compound semiconductor research.

The Da Vinci Innovation Awards Audience

Success for Cardiff innovators

29 November 2016

The 2016 Da Vinci Innovation Awards with details of winners.

da Vinci statue and Vitruvian Man

Students and staff pitch big ideas for cash funding

16 November 2016

University hosts 4th Da Vinci Innovation & Impact Awards

Arkwright Scholars

Engineers of the future: Arkwright Scholars for 2016

11 November 2016

This year the School of Engineering is sponsoring three Arkwright scholars. These STEM students from UK schools represent the engineers of the future.

A researcher at work

New discovery changes the future for hydrogen-fuelled cars

21 October 2016

A new discovery involving activating hydrocarbon wax with catalysts and microwaves may be changing the future for the use of hydrogen as a fuel.

Professor Roger Falconer

New appointments for engineering professor

14 October 2016

Professor Roger Falconer, from the School of Engineering, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland.

Keysight Technologies logo

Equipping for employment with Keysight Technologies

30 August 2016

Cardiff University’s School of Engineering is to collaborate with Keysight Technologies to prepare students for a career in industry.