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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.


George Panoutsos

Professor George Panoutsos becomes Head of Department 

Professor George Panoutsos has started his role as the Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering.

Photo of Professor Jim Lister opening the UKCI 2022

UK Computational Intelligence Workshop hosted in Sheffield

The University of Sheffield this year hosted the UK Computational Intelligence Workshop, showcasing the latest research into neural networks, fuzzy systems and evolutionary computation.
Photo of student Shamoil Khomosi at Mercedes surrounded by trophies

Shamoil Khomos writes about his experience studying in the UK

Shamoil Khomas a student from India, has written an article about his experience studying a BEng Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering with a Year in Industry student for the Free Press Journal.

| Published by the Free Press Journal
The mars rover on the floor of an engineering workshop in Sheffield

University of Sheffield students build mars rover and reach international final

A group of students from the University of Sheffield are the only team from the UK to qualify for the finals of an international competition in Turkey to build a mars rover.
Photo of a group of students from Sheffield who took part in SwarmHack

Sheffield robotics students take part in SwarmHack 2022

Students from Sheffield took part in the first ever SwarmHack event, three days of intensive learning and team-working using swarm robotics.