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The University of Cambridge Department of Engineering is one of the largest departments in the University of Cambridge. The main site is situated at Trumpington Street, to the south of Cambridge city centre. The department is the primary centre for engineering teaching and research activities in Cambridge and is currently headed by Professor David Cardwell.〔http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/dc135〕 ==History== In 1782, the Reverend Richard Jackson of Torrington, former fellow of Trinity College, died leaving a substantial portion of his estate to endow a Professorship of Natural Experimental Philosophy. This became forerunner to the Professorship of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, first held in 1875 by James Stuart. 〔http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/125/noflash/〕 The first engineering workshop at Cambridge was constructed in 1878, a wooden hut fifty by twenty feet. The department now boasts several sites around Cambridge: * The main buildings are located at Trumpington Street and Fen Causeway on the Scroope House site, where most of the undergraduate teaching in the Engineering Tripos is carried out. * Various sections which could not easily be accommodated on the main site have moved to the University's West Cambridge site, including the Whittle Laboratory (a turbomachinery laboratory, founded by Sir John Horlock, in 1973),〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aoug.org.uk/awards/science.html )〕 The Geotechnical Centrifuge laboratory, the Microelectronics Research Centre (1992), the Electrical Engineering Division building and the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM). * A few of the smaller buildings on the Old Addenbrooke's Site, in Trumpington Street opposite the Scroope House Site, have been used by the department from time to time. Currently, the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership is in the end building of that site, 1 Trumpington Street, having expanded and moved there under its previous name of Cambridge Programme for Industry in 1991. * Over the course of the next 10 years, the Department plans to consolidate the Department of Engineering entirely on the west Cambridge site. 〔http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-david-cardwell-interview-professional-engineering-magazine〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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