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23 November 2020

Children’s sleep disorder tests to be transformed by new technology

Children suffering from sleep disorders may soon be able to be assessed by doctors from the comfort of their own home using a pioneering new technology that will also save time and money for the NHS.

20 October 2020

£3M awarded to interdisciplinary project to improve socio-technical resilience and trustworthiness of autonomous systems

A project that will improve the ability of autonomous systems to reason about the impact of their decisions & actions on technical & social requirements & rules has been awarded almost £3M from the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) programme.

22 September 2020

Engineers link brains to computers using 3D printed implants

A team of engineers, led by ACSE's Professor Ivan Minev and Professor Pavel Musienko (St Petersburg State University), have developed a prototype neural implant that could be used to develop treatments for problems in the nervous system.

British soldiers and mountain rescue teams evacuated people in York 2015 — British soldiers and mountain rescue teams evacuated people in York, UK, as the River Ouse flooded in 2015. Credit: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

17 September 2020

Weather Prediction in the UK and Northwest Europe

Climate scientists and engineers, including academics from ACSE, aim to untangle jet stream's disruptive effects with new seasonal forecasting technique.

SIGNets to advance fundamental research in distributed sensing

Universities of Cambridge, Surrey and Sheffield will partner to address fundamental challenges in distributed sensing, multimodal data fusion and autonomous sensor management that the defence sector is facing.

10 December 2020

Want to become an engineering leader?

The Royal Academy of Engineering Leaders Scholarships are now open for student applications.

8 December 2020

Rolls-Royce to accelerate future aerospace technologies with ATI Programme

A new project led by Rolls-Royce with support from the ATI Programme will make future aerospace servicing technologies a reality. The project is in conjunction with ACSE's UTC in Control, Monitoring and Systems Engineering Centre.

30 November 2020 | Rolls-Royce

ACSE graduate accepted for publication in the prestigious conference

ACSE graduate (2020), Eli Davies, has just had his project work accepted for publication in the prestigious 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization.

25 November 2020

JA comment on New Scientist article - Robot Hawk — This hawk-like drone is an agile and efficient flyer 2020 EPFL/Alain Herzog

Hawk-inspired robot with movable wings is an agile long-distance flyer

ACSE's Dr Jonathan Aitken comments on the Hawk-inspired robot that can fly more stably and nimbly than other flying robots – and it uses less power, extending flight time.

30 October 2020 | New Scientist