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Engineering Design Centre

For more than twenty-five years the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre (EDC) has undertaken fundamental and applied research to generate knowledge that improves the design process. Our work is driven both by intellectual curiosity and industrial collaboration, resulting in understanding, methods and tools that shape design theory and design practice.

The EDC engages in knowledge transfer activities through publications, education, training and ongoing engagements with government and other public institutions. More generally, we promote the value of engineering design in the UK and beyond, and the value of design education and design research.

The EDC represents eleven distinct groups, addressing a broad range of methodological approaches, professional practices and industry sectors:



















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UPTURN co-design workshop

24 February 2025

The UPTURN project, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, aims to design a public health intervention to support people with COPD to access pulmonary rehabilitation services. Members of the EDC helped run the project's first co-design workshop, comprising members of the public and staff connected...