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I-Teams end-of-term presentations Easter term Innovation I-Teams presentations Wednesday June 12th at the Institute for Manufacturing and on Zoom. Networking from 6.30pm, with presentations starting at 7pm. Register here. Projects on energy efficiency in multi-occupancy buildings, an AI-friendly computer memory material and a new method for dry methane reforming and syngas production. Easter term Development I-Teams presentations Tuesday…
Cambridge Festival winners 2024
At the recent Cambridge Festival weekend at the Institute for Manufacturing, hundreds of attendees were treated to demonstrations of technology and engineering in practise. Visitors sampled hands-on experiments, and helped with the “Colouring Cities” community mapping project. Talks on “Your Life is Manufactured” by Professor Tim Minshall, getting the most out of your education by…
Announcing ASEAN i-Teams
We are delighted that i-Teams continues to expand globally. Amy Weatherup who runs i-Teams in Cambridge has been working over the summer with Dr. Lara Allen and Ben Moore from the Centre of Global Equality (CGE), delivering i-Teams online at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) for the first time. HUST i-Teams has been set up in collaboration…
Cambridge Festival competition winners announced!
At the recent Institute for Manufacturing open day at the Cambridge Festival, hundreds of visitors were treated to demonstrations of technology in practise. IfM scientists demonstrated their latest research on drug delivery to the brain, and the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring team shared some of their low-cost, low-risk digital solutions. Visitors were invited to…
i-Teams launches in Nairobi
In collaboration with the Centre for Global Equality (CGE), we are delighted to announce the start of the first Nairobi i-Teams programme in collaboration with Strathmore University in Nairobi. Three multi-disciplinary teams of students will meet weekly to investigate the commercial opportunities in Kenya for three new technologies. Two are from leading ventures in the…
i-Teams referenced in the House of Lords
Baroness Coussins, Co-Chair of the APPG on Modern Languages and Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, spoke today about the necessity for language skills to be considered as part of the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill. As part of her speech she cited three Cambridge-based technology organisations, Viridian Solar, Alchemie, and the i-Teams innovation…
myICUvoice – scaling in a pandemic
Author: Nadya Pohran Website: myICUvoice In 2018 I applied for the Medical i-Teams programme while doing my PhD at the University of Cambridge because I wanted to participate in a project called myICUvoice. myICUvoice is a communication tool designed specifically for mechanically-ventilated patients (who cannot verbally-speak) and their nurses. I am an anthropologist and I…
i-Teams goes EPIC!
Dr. Simon Pulman-Jones, a regular i-Teams mentor and lecturer for our Design Thinking workshop, presented a paper on i-Teams together with Amy Weatherup at the EPIC 2019 conference in Providence, Rhode Island. The paper, From ‘Cool Science’ to Changing the World: the Opportunity to Support Pre-startup Science Commercialisation Through Ethnography and Human-Centred Design (authors: Dr.…
Using Science and Engineering to Change the World
Winners announced for the i-Teams What Would You Use THAT For? competition at the Science Festival Young science and engineering enthusiasts thronged into the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) on the West Cambridge site on the last Saturday in March, experiencing the IfM in Virtual Reality, having their pictures etched in metal by lasers, and learning…
