To commemorate International Women’s Day, I took a look at the statistics around undergraduate admissions to study engineering. There have been many efforts made over the past decade, and longer, to increase the number of women studying engineering – the… Read More »IWD: Women and Undergraduate Admissions
Can I apply without further maths? What is a typical day like at Cambridge, workload wise? What access arrangements are available for the entrance exam? These questions, and more, were answered during the Access Week that CUES ran from 9th-13th… Read More »CUES Access Week
Milo Hiscox is the Ashford Programme Lead at Brompton Bicycles. He studied engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2006 to 2010. You currently work at Brompton Bicycles – tell me a bit about the company, and your experience there? … Read More »An interview with… Milo Hiscox
Marisa Kurimbokus has recently been named one of the top 50 women in engineering by the Women’s Engineering Society. She studied engineering at Cambridge from 2008 to 2012 and now works as the Mechanical Engineering Team Leader at Aeristech. I… Read More »An interview with… Marisa Kurimbokus
So you’re a fresher starting the engineering course at Cambridge. Here are some Do’s and Don’ts for your first year. I cannot lie, it isn’t going to be the easiest thing in the world but if you follow this advice… Read More »The Do’s and Don’ts of First Year Engineering
The Dodgy Engineer is Sam’s YouTube channel, where (you guessed it!) its style and tone are intended to be deliberately dodgy, being both entertaining and also very educational and informative. Sam is a third-year engineer at Trinity College and also… Read More »Sam Walker: The Dodgy Engineer
Applying for internships especially during Michaelmas term time can be quite stressful, especially with the exponential build up of examples papers and missed lectures you need to catch up on. For most engineers who go into info engineering and really… Read More »A Comprehensive Guide to Applying for Software Engineering for Cambridge Engineers (and Closet CompScis)
Freshers, welcome to Cambridge Engineering! If you’re not reading this as fresher, it doesn’t mean this article can’t relate to you too. There are many things I wish I knew earlier and the good news for you is that I… Read More »10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Cambridge Engineering