The Design Show, held at the end of last term, is part of the Manufacturing Engineering Tripos (MET) course, a programme for 3rd and 4th-year engineering students who have successfully completed the first two years of an engineering degree.
Teams of three or four Manufacturing Engineering Tripos students have completed a major design project to develop a new product, with real business potential. Having first identified a customer need, they have researched the market, developed original design concepts and created a full business plan.
The projects have generated some exciting new ideas and innovative technology. In the past, some of the products on display have been taken up by the industrial partners involved during the development stages. This is now happening more and more frequently, with two or three projects deemed to have the same potential this year.
The Design Show is held each year for an invited audience of industrialists, designers, venture capitalists and academics, as well as friends and relatives. Students put together displays to explain the technical and business ideas behind the products, together with design details and prototype models of the products themselves.
Read about the design projects
Image: One of the projects on display - the Cambridge Chair offers a new integrated solution to office seating and layout.
Reproduced courtesy of University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering
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