Think engineering, think dry wipe boards covered in calculations, bridges and cluttered lab experiments. Then take a quick skim through the gallery of images from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering’s 2012 Photography Competition, and all preconceived ideas of the world of engineering will be blown away.

Originally envisaged nine years ago as a project that might offer University of Cambridge staff and students “a little bit of fun,” the photography competition has been heralded by Philip Guildford, Director of Research at the Department of Engineering, as a showcase for modern engineering. A panel of judges from the university’s department of engineering and Ken Robinson, Senior Applications Specialist for the competition’s sponsor Carl Zeiss, were inundated with hundreds of photographs for this year’s competition, depicting a vast array of experiments and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images.
via Wired

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