Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering and Computer Systems Engineering offer holder days

As part of your offer holder day at Sheffield, you'll be spending some quality time getting to know the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering and your chosen course.

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Arriving at the department

Please arrive in good time for the start of your booked session, as we'll need to scan the QR code from your booking to register you.

Your arrival location is: The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 8. You can view this on our interactive campus map, and there will also be lots of open day staff and ambassadors around campus to assist you.

If you arrive late for your booked session, please report to the general information stand on the Students’ Union concourse, where event staff will be able to help.

When booking, you'll be able to reserve a place for yourself and one guest at the department activities. To ensure safe venue capacities, the department will be unable to accommodate any additional unbooked visitors.

However, you're welcome to bring additional guests to accompany you on the day, and we would encourage these guests to take part in our range of central exhibitions and tours while the department activities are running.

Science and Engineering Foundation Year

If you are holding an offer for one our courses with Foundation Year, you should book your 2.5 hour visit with us as normal, but then also make a point to attend our Science and Engineering Foundation Year talk will run 1pm-1.30pm in Diamond Lecture Theatre 9, on the second floor of the Diamond building.

No pre-booking is required for this SEFY talk, but all foundation-year offer holders are strongly encouraged to attend, to learn more about this part of your course.

Lunch

In addition to the below activity, we would be pleased if you could join us for a buffet lunch for an opportunity for further informal conversation with staff and current students. The lunch will be held in the Engineering Heartspace, E Floor Atrium. Please come into the Engineering Heartspace via the Mappin Street main entrance and head to E Floor.

For those visiting the department in the morning, lunch will follow immediately afterwards, 12.30-1.00pm. For those visiting in the afternoon, lunch will be served immediately prior, 1.30-2.00pm. Please see below for full details.

When booking your place, you will be asked to email any dietary requirements to adacse@sheffield.ac.uk.

Timetable: Saturday 15 April 2023

Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering
Computer Systems Engineering

Here's what to expect from your time with us. Timings are approximate and are subject to change, and so we recommend checking back prior to the event.

Time	Student and parent / supporter activity
10:00am	Welcome talk
10:30am	Student ambassador questions and answers
10:45am	Tour of the Diamond
11:00am	Practical session: SumoBots
11:50am	Practical sessions: Robot challenge
12:35pm	Lunch - Engineering Heartspace, E Floor Atrium Enter via the Mappin Street main entrance and head to E Floor

For the rest of the day, you'll have time to take part in the central tours and exhibitions detailed in our offer holder day guide.

Activities

You'll take part in two activities related to your chosen course to give you a real taste of what it's like to be a student at Sheffield.

SumoBot Coding

You'll experience an introductory undergraduate lab class in the Diamond by learning to code an Arduino based robot for a SumoBot challenge. The robot must act autonomously once the fight begins, and work to push the enemy robot outside of the arena in a sumo-style battle.

Robot Challenge

You will have access to our state-of-the-art Industrial Automation Lab, following a short introduction to robot kinematics and motion control you will program a robot arm to undertake a challenging assembly problem.