News News stories 1 March 2024 Complex Systems Modelling: Using AI and Machine Learning to Improve Seasonal Weather Predictions A team of researchers here at the University of Sheffield have developed a new method which is hoped will improve predicting seasonal weather conditions in the UK and Northwest Europe. 29 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 27 February 2024 £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. 14 February 2024 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. Search 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 The SunrIde team at the launch site in the UK championships. Sheffield engineering students launch winning rocket at UK Championships A team of engineering students from the University of Sheffield proved they are high-fliers after achieving the top spot at a national rocketry championship. 6 October 2021 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Current page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 … Next page Next › Last page Last »