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Three students carrying the Desert Winds rocket through the US desert

Record-breaking rocket launched by University of Sheffield students

supersonic rocket that has broken a series of UK and European altitude records, has been built by a team of engineering students at the University of Sheffield.
A student using a robot arm in a competition

Students wow judges in Siemens Digital Innovation Zone robotic arm competition

Judges were blown away by the ingenuity and creativity of four student teams who programmed a robot arm to navigate complex courses in a recent competition held at the Siemens Digital Innovation Zone (DIZ).
Karman Alpha

Karman Alpha: Twelve Feet Under - the documentary

Student-led rocketry team ‘Project Sunride’ premiered their ‘Karman Alpha’ documentary last month, chronicling their journey to America where they launched the two-stage rocket in the Mojave Desert, California.
A team photo showing all of the participants in the IEEE Entrepreneurship Event held at the University Sheffield in February 2024

Engineering Research Assistant and PhD students host IEEE Entrepreneurship pitch event

The University of Sheffield recently hosted an IEEE Entrepreneurship Event with seven teams of engineering students pitching their ideas to an expert panel. The three winning teams will now advance to the regional finals with teams from across Europe
Photograph of the UK Meta Materials Network Plus

£2.5M additional funding secured for Metamaterials Network

Simon Pope, from the Department of Automatic Controls and Systems Engineering is part of the Executive Board leading on the project in conjunction with several other UK Universities.

A photo of Robotics

Engineers build robot swarm that can assemble and repair its shape in a distributed manner

Dr. Roderich Gross has been leading on a new strategy for the shape assembly of robot swarms based on the idea of mean-shift exploration.
Future Greens co-founder Gabriele giving a talk to students

Future Greens: graduates secure six-figure investment for vertical farming revolution

A group of recent University of Sheffield graduates, including from ACSE, are set to transform the world of vertical farming after securing a six-figure investment for their sustainable startup.