This Sunday 23 June is the 11th International Women in Engineering Day, led by the Women’s Engineering Society UK. To mark this important day, which has the theme ‘Enhanced by Engineering’, we discussed this year’s Durham University Empowering Engineers Symposium 2024 with Dr Beth Barnes, Assistant Professor.

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The Department of Engineering has recently gained an Athena Swan Silver award, recognising the success of our efforts to support gender equality and, in particular, women in their career development.

Dr Shunmin Zhu, who is a Marie Curie Fellow working at the Department of Engineering, will join a cohort of outstanding young scientists from around the world at the prestigious 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

The Department of Engineering is delighted to announce that Anna Weatherburn won first place/gold with her poster titled "Taking Inspiration from Nature: A Novel Material for Wind Turbine Blades" at the esteemed STEM for Britain Competition.

We’re part of a world-leading renewable energy research collaboration that has received almost £5.3million from the UK government to expand its work.

We’re supporting the creation of a new research centre to advance cutting edge solutions to offshore wind challenges and drive the UK’s transition to Net Zero.

Dr Beth Barnes from our top-rated Engineering department has recently been named in the 2024 Northern Power Women – Future List.

Dr Szyniszewski's groundbreaking work on metallic foam with ceramic inserts is staged at the 'Growing our Future' exhibition hosted by Newcastle's Life Science Centre.

The vacancy of Industrial Liaison Senior Officer is available in the Engineering Department.