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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World

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MRes course

MRes course overview Principles of Sensing Machine Learning Responsible Research and Inclusive Innovation Team Challenge Mini Research Projects

Continuous training

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Sensors Days

Sensors Day 2026

Sensors Day 2025

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Sensors Day 2024

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Sensors Day 2022

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Sensors Day 2021

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Sensors Day 2020

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Sensors Day 2019

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Speakers

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Sensors Day 2018

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Sensors Day 2017

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Sensors Day 2016

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Sensors Day 2015

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About the programme

    Course Information MRes course PhD course Continuous training

Prospective students

    How to apply Who are we looking for? Funding Why should I apply? Industry studentship opportunity

Sensors Days

    Sensors Day 2026 Sensors Day 2025 Sensors Day 2024 Sensors Day 2022 Sensors Day 2021 Sensors Day 2020 Sensors Day 2019 Sensors Day 2018 Sensors Day 2017 Sensors Day 2016 Sensors Day 2015

Team Challenges

    The 2024 Team Challenge The 2023 Team Challenge The 2022 Team Challenge The 2021 Team Challenge The 2020 Team Challenge The 2019 Team Challenge The 2018 Team Challenge The 2017 Team Challenge The 2016 Team Challenge The 2015 Team Challenge

Organisation

    Governance Industrial Partners Management

Current students

    Information for UKRI studentship holders Leave reporting form Information for current students
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About the programme

  • Course Information
  • MRes course
    • Principles of Sensing
    • Machine Learning
    • Responsible Research and Inclusive Innovation
    • Team Challenge
    • Mini Research Projects
  • PhD course
  • Continuous training

Team Challenge

The Team Challenge is a three-month project on a topical sensing problem tackled and led by the MRes cohort as a whole team. The Sensor CDT teaching team provides the topic brief with mentors from academia, industry and partner institutions providing guidance and advice to the students throughout the project.

Previous projects:

  • Automated vegetation monitoring using animal-mounted sensors (2024)
  • LiFETIME: A low-cost, open-source solution for cell health testing for second life battery applications (2023)
  • An early warning system for cyanobacteria in freshwater (2022)
  • A context-appropriate oxygen concentrator and ventilatorsystem to save lives in low-resource settings (2021)
  • A system of doorway mounted thermal sensors to count room occupancy(2020)
  • An open-source soil health monitoring system (2019)
  • Monitoring air quality with citizen scientists (2018)
  • A cell-free sensor platform for the quantification of arsenic concentrations in drinking water (2017)
  • An optical projection tomography system (2016)
  • Sensors for assisted living of old people (2015)

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World

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Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS
Email:admin@sensors.cam.ac.uk

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