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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

We empower students and staff to tackle global challenges through modern electrical and electronic engineering. Our excellence lies in scientific rigor, discipline depth, and real-world impact, creating a world-class environment for education and research.

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Students helping each other with one of the tasks at Girls into Electronics day
Undergraduate study 
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Undergraduate open days 
Postgraduate ACSE students
Postgraduate taught study 

Our research

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PhD study 
Siemans wind farm
Research 

About the school

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The main entrance of the Sir Frederick Mappin Building
About us 
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People 

News

Students who took part in the engineers for business final

Second year engineering students pitched ideas at 2025 Engineers in Business final

Six top teams from the University of Sheffield pitched innovative solutions in high-stakes competition.
Observations of a sunspot taken on 04/10/2017
Observations of a sunspot taken on 04/10/2017 in H-alpha using the New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory. Credit: Juie Shetye (NMSU), Erwin Verwichte (Warwick), Kevin Reardon (NSO)

New project investigates mysteries of Sun’s atmosphere

The Solar Atmospheric Modelling Suite, or SAMS, project aims to build a next-generation modelling tool for the solar atmosphere – making a code that can be run on anything from laptops to the latest supercomputers.

Lab equipment

Self-driving labs: making chemical research faster and smarter

Researchers have built an automated platform, or self-driving laboratory, which can be programmed to conduct chemical reactions, analyse the products and autonomously modify the conditions to optimise the process using machine learning.
A close up of equipment in the National Epitaxy Facility
The University of Sheffield is one of the UK's leading universities for semiconductor research and hosts the National Epitaxy Facility where the new MBE system will be based.

UK’s discovery of new semiconductor materials to be revolutionised by University of Sheffield

New AI-driven equipment will transform the UK’s semiconductor R&D, following a £7 million award in investment to the University of Sheffield.

Address

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
The University of Sheffield
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT

Contact us

Email: eee@sheffield.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)114 222 5250

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Female student using a circuit board in the Electronics lab