News News stories 9 July 2024 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. 26 June 2024 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). Search Robots take another step towards autonomy, taking only 90 minutes to learn how to play ping pong Dr Jonathan Aitken, comments on a robot that has been designed to be as good at table tennis as the average human. 15 December 2021 | BroBible Researchers in the department awarded funding for data collection project aiming to improve energy efficiency of housing in Glasgow The project is looking to build a citywide indicator of estimated Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) in Glasgow housing to increase energy performance and assess retrofit needs. 8 December 2021 Special visit for students at the AMRC The Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in Sheffield was recently visited by four groups of students enrolled on the Third-Year Group Projects modules. 26 November 2021 Sheffield research student wins award at international robotics conference PhD student Ed Bray has won the award for Best Student Paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems. 10 November 2021 Sheffield engineers to help industry produce ultra-thin coatings Dr John Oyekan and Professor George Panoutsos from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering are part of a project to develop technology to scale up manufacturing of ultra-thin coatings. 7 October 2021 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Current page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 … Next page Next › Last page Last »