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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.
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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.

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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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New PhD positions available

We've a number of new fully funded PhD positions available within the department.

Funded PhD Opportunities in Data Science, Complex Systems and Robotics

This webinar will showcase the exciting research opportunities available in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE) at The University of Sheffield.
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SIGNets to advance fundamental research in distributed sensing

Universities of Cambridge, Surrey and Sheffield will partner to address fundamental challenges in distributed sensing, multimodal data fusion and autonomous sensor management that the defence sector is facing.
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Want to become an engineering leader?

The Royal Academy of Engineering Leaders Scholarships are now open for student applications.
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Rolls-Royce to accelerate future aerospace technologies with ATI Programme

A new project led by Rolls-Royce with support from the ATI Programme will make future aerospace servicing technologies a reality. The project is in conjunction with ACSE's UTC in Control, Monitoring and Systems Engineering Centre.

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