Introduction to SPIP

The Student-led Projects and Industry Partnership (SPIP) supports independent student engineering activity in CUED. The programme started in 2010 and now approximately 150 students are involved in the 6 current teams
Industrial support through sponsorship, mentoring, technical and management advice is provided by Boeing, BP, Jaguar Land Rover, National Instruments and Marshall Group. Any independent project with at least one student member from CUED can apply for funding.

Project Expo

Each year the teams present their most recent developments in the Expo on 5 November in the main engineering site, details to follow. Find out how you can become involved or how you can turn your ideas into a new project.

Meet the Teams

Cambridge University Space Flight

• High powered rocketry (15 km)
• High altitude ballooning (40 km)
• Building everything from light computer to rocket motors
• Launched high-altitude planetary entry parachute test system
• Annual rocketry event in the Black Rock Desert.

Cambridge University Eco Racing

• Most enterprising student society (RBS ESSA Scheme)
• Designs, builds and races
• Lightest ever vehicle at 120 kg
• Ongoing event: World Solar Challenge - 3000km race (Darwin to Adelaide)

Project Voxel

• Starting out small but ambitious
• 3 students initially
• Crowd-based, interactive, wearable, pixel lighting system with new sensors to come
• Great technical support from ARM
• May Ball trial of similar technologies

Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

• Founded in 2006
• Originally designed for scientific exploration under the arctic ice
• Compete annually in the Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge Europe
• Won 1^st place in the 2013 competition with Barracuda

Full Blue Racing

• 60 students
• Design & build a single seater racing car
• 450 Formula Student Teams, 100 teams compete
• Assessed on (1) speed & handling, (2) Business/design presentations
• Promoted to Class 1 in 2014

Cambridge University Autonomous Flight

• Designs, builds and flies autonomous quadrotor, drones or fixed wing aircraft.
• This includes: Mechanical frames, camera stabilizers, payload release mechanisms, electronics and software
• Compete at International Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Competition.

Application process

Details of the application procedure can be obtained from the SPIP coordinator, Dr Daly. Applications for the next round of funding should be submitted in the required format by 4pm on 28th October 2015.

New opportunity

Cambridge University Engineering Alumni are also providing a new opportunity for seed funding of new ideas.  Have you been inspired by the established teams? Have an idea about a new project you would like to try? Let us know! Expressions of interest are welcome at the Moodle site