Sensor CDT away day
Students from all three Sensor CDT cohorts traveled to Marston Vale to meet up with the MAS CDT for a joint away day aiming to solve research problems together.
Biomaker Challenge - deadline extended to 21 July
A four-month challenge to build low-cost sensors and instruments for biology
Sensor Team Challenge 2017 has started
By combining their scientific and managerial skills, the third cohort of Sensor CDT students will develop low-cost and open-source cell-free molecular diagnostics for biological and chemical sensor applications.
Winner of CDT Twitter photo competition
Second prize in the #CDTinnovation category goes to Oliver Vanderpoorten
Sensor CDT at the Cambridge Science Festival 2017
A team of Sensor CDT students demonstrated their research projects at the Cambridge Science Festival
Sensor CDT spin-out company to disrupt assisted living technology market
Allowing older people to live in their own homes for longer
Assisted Living Technologies
Sensor CDT start-up company looking for first round funding. Presentation 21 Feb 2017, 4pm, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Site, Cambridge.
Team project on optical projection tomography completed
Students successfully designed, built and tested an open source optical projection tomography system to image biological samples in 3D.
Cambridge TV interviews CDT students about their research to develop a sensor suite for assisted living
Raising the Bar - Unsung hero award
Josephine Hughes is runner-up of the "Unsung hero award" for her work in organising the RoboCup Junior competition
Sensor CDT students publish research from the Sensor Team Challenge
A research paper on assisted living technology, authored by the first cohort of Sensor CDT students, has been published in the Royal Society's Interface Focus journal.
Themed Issue on Sensor Research
The Royal Society's Interface Focus Journal has published a special issue dedicated to the research topics covered at Sensors Day 2015
Arduino workshop
The Sensor CDT students ran a sell-out workshop on how to use Arduino micro controllers in research labs
Sensor Team Challenge 2016
The Sensor Team Challenge, the final project for the MRes students at the Sensor CDT, is underway. The 2016 challenge is to develop an Optical Projection Tomography system.
Teaching sensing to undergraduate engineers
Josie Hughes, 1st year Sensor CDT PhD student, taught a group of Cambridge undergraduate engineers the basics of interfacing sensors with Arduino microcontrollers as part of a project to introduce students to coding and electronics.
The second student cohort has arrived
The second cohort of Sensor CDT students has arrived at the beginning of October to embark on their four year MRes + PhD programme with us.
First student cohort has successfully completed the MRes
The first cohort has completed their eleven months MRes course and is now preparing to embark on their individual PhD projects in five different Departments.
Open Technology Week 2015
MRes student Tiesheng Wang presents a Sensor Team Challenge prototype at this year's Open Technology Week.
