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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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Professor Michael Balikhin wins award from the Royal Astronomical Society

Congratulations to ACSE’s Professor Michael Balikhin and the rest of the Cluster Science and Operations Teams, who have been awarded the 2019 Group Achievement Award (Geophysics) by the UK Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).
Dr Payam Soulatiantork with the FESTO cyberphysical lab

ACSE’s exciting new piece of equipment ‘The Festo Cyber Physical Smart Factory’ has arrived

The Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering have received an exciting new piece of kit, housed in The Diamond.
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Sheffield postgraduate scholarships

The University of Sheffield is pleased to offer 100+ scholarships worth £10,000 each for home students starting a taught postgraduate course in 2017.