Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

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Address: Thom Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13PJ, GB
Telephone: 01865 273000

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01/09/2026

Congratulations to Joy Lai, Noura Aqeeli, Zi Cai, Anna-Maria Geist and Chenqi Li (pictured left to right) from the AI4DH Lab at Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering, who took second place at the Oxford AI for Good Hackathon! 👏🥈

The team tackled the often unseen psychological impact of online content moderation, developing an AI-powered approach that filters and abstracts harmful content before it reaches a human reviewer.

In just 24 hours, they built a live prototype while keeping people at the heart of the decision-making process.

Held at Reuben College, the hackathon brought together 75 participants and was sponsored by EnSpire Oxford, Claude Builder Club @ Oxford and Canva.

🔗 Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-ai-for-good-hackathon-challenges-students-to-build-ai-solutions-for-social-good

28/08/2026

What do tiny bubbles have to do with antibiotics and cancer treatment? 🫧
Prof Eleanor Stride from Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering talks about exactly that in the latest series of BBC Radio 4’s - Best Medicine.

Her team is developing a way to carry drugs inside microscopic bubbles, then use focused ultrasound to release them once they reach the disease site. The hope is to deliver more of the drug where it is needed, while reducing its impact on healthy tissue.

Listen to Eleanor explain the science and find out why she and presenter Kiri Pritchard-McLean are holding underwear in the episode photo!

Read more here: https://beyondantibiotics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-eleanor-stride-featured-on-bbc-s-best-medicine-podcast-series-3

26/08/2026

''Don't let gender limit you!''

For Women’s Equality Day, Professor D**g (Lilly) Liu shares why we need to treat girls and boys equally and support them in making their own choices about their future. That support is particularly important for girls who choose a career path different from the one their friends have followed.

And Lilly has a simple message for anyone starting out: Be good at your work. Become the expert in what you do, and you will earn the recognition and treatment you can be proud of.

At the Department of Engineering Science, we are proud to support the women in our community and celebrate everything they contribute to engineering, research, education and our department.

25/08/2026

What if the tide at one beach is almost a metre higher than at another just a short distance away? 🌊

New research involving Oxford Engineering’s Dr Thomas Monahan has revealed just how much tides can vary along the coast. The researchers developed a new method that uses more than 40 years of satellite images to measure tides at intervals of just 100 metres.

Rather than measuring sea level directly, the method uses the beach itself as a giant ruler. As the tide rises and falls, the shoreline moves up and down the sloping beach. Satellite images capture these changes, allowing researchers to reconstruct local tidal patterns.

The study is published in Nature Communications: Earth & Environment.

🔗 Read the full story: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/tides-can-vary-by-almost-a-metre-across-a-single-bay-four-decades-of-satellite-images-reveal

21/08/2026

Oxford engineering students have won third place in the 2026 ASHRAE Design Competition, an international competition recognising outstanding student engineering designs.

Nina Marcjasz, Orlanda Knapp and Darcey Sutcliffe developed a proposal for a net-zero university campus building in Denver, Colorado, focusing on its heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.

The team compared a baseline design with two advanced net-zero alternatives, exploring different approaches to generating, converting, distributing and storing energy and the trade-offs between different decarbonisation pathways.

Their achievement makes Oxford the only UK institution recognised in this year’s HVAC category.

The project was supervised by Oxford Engineering academics Dr Jesus Lizana, Professor David Wallom and Dr Scot Wheeler, with the ZERO Institute helping to coordinate the team's participation.

The students have been invited to the ASHRAE 2027 Winter Conference in Chicago, where they will showcase their project and be formally recognised.

Congratulations to Nina, Orlanda and Darcey! 👏

Read the news: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-students-win-3rd-place-in-prestigious-sustainable-design-competition

20/08/2026

Could we make desalination more sustainable – and use less energy to produce fresh water? 💧

Congratulations to Oxford Engineering Science alumnus Dr Christian Peters, who has been named runner-up in the 2026 EFCE Excellence Award in Fluid Separations! 👏

His DPhil research, supervised by Professor Nick Hankins, explored Osmotic-Assisted Reverse Osmosis (OARO) as a low-energy approach to desalination, with the potential to help produce more affordable water.

Christian is now an Academic Visitor at Oxford and CEO & Co-Founder of Oxford spin-out Seloxium Limited.

Read more🔗 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/alumnus-selected-for-excellence-award-for-chemical-engineering

19/08/2026

What can a photograph tell us about how a material or structure breaks? Photography can be much more than a way of capturing what we see. At Oxford Engineering, researchers use Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to turn images into precise measurements of how materials and structures deform.

In a recent experiment, DIC was used to study a cored sample of Roman concrete from the Podium Temple in Antioch. By tracking changes across a sequence of images as the sample was loaded, researchers determined the fracture resistance of this ancient material.

The technique can also be used at a much larger scale, helping researchers monitor masonry structures during earthquake testing and understand how they respond to dynamic loading.

From ancient concrete to earthquake-tested structures, imaging gives engineers a way to see, measure and understand behaviour that would otherwise be difficult to capture.

📷 Image credits to Kutsi Akcicek

17/08/2026

Congratulations to three Engineering academics who have been awarded the title of Full Professor in the University of Oxford’s latest Recognition of Distinction Awards.

Professor Amy Zavatsky, Professor Martin Davy and Professor Emilio Martínez Pañeda have each been recognised for their contributions to leadership, teaching and research within the University, their department and/or colleges. A well-deserved recognition of their achievements and contributions to the Oxford Engineering community.

Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/university-recognition-of-distinction-awards-2026

14/08/2026

A new roadmap published in Science Advances explores the challenges that need to be addressed from stable neural interfaces and advanced materials to manufacturing and clinical translation.

Former Oxford Engineering Senior Researcher Joseph Troughton is joint first author of the roadmap. He led the workstream on neural interfacing devices and contributed to the paper’s illustrations.

The roadmap brings together researchers from across materials science, neural engineering, neuroscience, computation and clinical practice to consider how these technologies can move beyond the laboratory.

Read the news: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-researchers-contribute-to-roadmap-for-neural-technology

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