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The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield with four of the academics who have been elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering's Fellowship
Four of the academics who have been elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering's Fellowship with the University of Sheffield's Vice-Chancellor (end left) and Vice-President for Engineering (end right).

Professor Ashutosh Tiwari is one of five University of Sheffield academics elected to Royal Academy of Engineering’s Fellowship

Professor Ashutosh Tiwari from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE) is one of five academics from the University of Sheffield to have been honoured with one of the most prestigious awards in engineering, announced today

Sheffield students launch a two-stage rocket in California

Students from the Faculty of Engineering launched a two-stage rocket in California in an attempt to reach an altitude of 100,000ft.
Plane landing

Sheffield researchers to develop more efficient and sustainable landing gear systems for the aviation industry

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering are collaborating with industry on LANDOne, a £37.8 million project to deliver new greener landing gear systems.

Two academics arranging Kilobots on a plain surface

Researchers develop prototype robotic fabrics

Dr Roderich Gross has led research published in Nature Communications that uses swarm robotics to develop 'robotic fabrics' that can shrink, grow in size and move with precision.


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PhD student wins IET Doctoral Dissertation Prize

Former PhD student Dr Andrei Braitor has been awarded the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Control & Automation Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2022.

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In memory of Emeritus Professor Stephen Billings

It is with great sadness that we inform you that Professor Stephen Billings, Emeritus Professor of Signal Processing and Complex Systems, passed away on 18 December 2022.
Photo of Gopesh Yadav Dosieah receiving award for Best Paper from conference chairs Dr Marco Dorigo and Professor Heiko Hamann

Graduate awarded best research paper in swarm intelligence

MEng Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering graduate Gopesh Yadav Dosieah won an award for best research paper at the 2022 International Conference on Swarm Intelligence.
Two military medics providing medical treatment to a soldier injured during combat

New robots set to triage UK military personnel in combat

Robots will soon be able to provide medical care to military personnel during combat, as part of new research at the University of Sheffield.
The view from underneath the wing of an ULTRA UAV during a test flight

Swarms of advanced UAVs to collect key environment data

Swarms of advanced unmanned aircraft are set to carry out aerial surveys of Antarctica – gathering crucial data on changes to the region’s environment and wildlife – as part of new research with engineers from the University of Sheffield.