News

Keep up-to-date with all the latest news from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
Headshot of Zi-Qiang Zhu
3 July 2020

Prestigious IEEE Tesla Award won by Sheffield Professor

Professor Zi-Qiang Zhu from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering has received the prestigious 2021 IEEE Nikola Tesla Award for outstanding contributions to the generation and utilisation of electric power.
Photograph of Mobile Power customer in Sierra Leone
1 July 2020

Next generation battery storage delivers affordable, clean energy to communities in Sierra Leone

Mobile Power Ltd have partnered with leading battery energy storage experts at the University of Sheffield to deliver affordable, clean energy to remote communities in Sierra Leone.
Ultrasmall, Ultracompact and Ultrahigh Efficient InGaN Micro Light Emitting Diodes (μLEDs) with Narrow Spectral Line Width
ACS Nano
3 June 2020

Major breakthroughs for the fabrication of Ultrasmall, Ultracompact and Ultrahigh Efficient InGaN μLEDs

Prof Wang Director of the Centre for GaN Materials and Devices has a paper published by ACS Nano demonstrating that Sheffield has achieved major breakthroughs for the fabrication of ultra-small μLEDs with a record efficiency and spectral linewidth.
Lab session with Y12s on EEE taster day

Taster afternoon for Electronic and Electrical Engineers of the future

Following a successful debut earlier in the year The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering are running another Taster Session on Thursday 21st May for Y12 students who are considering their university choices.

11 May 2020
Electroluminescence - green LED in the Centre for GaN Materials and Devices

EpiPix: A New Way With Micro-LEDs

Based on EEE Professor Tao Wang's expert research a University of Sheffield spin out company, EpiPx, is set to deliver the ultra-high brightness, ultra-small microLED arrays that industry players crave. Read the article here.

17 March 2020
Headshot of Professor Xiaoli Chu

Celebrating International Women's Day

To mark International Women's Day on the 8th March 2020 Electronic and Electrical Engineer, Professor Chu, shares her career path and what it means to her having been awarded a Professorship in the Communications Research Group in the Department.

8 March 2020
Close up of an electric engine

EEE academic leads development of new cost-effective, fluid-based methods for cooling industrial electrical machines

Dr. Guang-Jin Li from the Department of Electronic and Electrical has won an EPSRC fund to improve the effectiveness of electrical machines in the automotive, renewable energy and aerospace sectors.

19 February 2020
Photograph showing Y12 students on EEE Taster Day in Electronics lab

The first Electronic and Electrical Engineering Taster Day was a success!

Find out how our first Taster Day for 23 year 12 students to experience a day in the life of a EEE student went. They took part in a mini lecture, a session in our Teaching Clean Room and a lab session in our Electronics and Control lab supported by academic staff, technicians and current students.

18 February 2020
MRI image of brain

EEE Professor involved in €3M project to develop nanodevices against Epilepsy and Parkinson's

Novel nanotechnologies could be used as brain implants, modulating the activity of nerve cells electrochemically and treating neurological diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson’s.

4 February 2020
Green Electroluminescence in the Centre for GaN Materials and Devices

EEE Professor develops game-changing micro LED technology

Professor Tao Wang has developed research that has allowed EpiPix Ltd, a spin-out company from the University of Sheffield, to collaborate with global corporations on next generation micro-LED product developments.

4 February 2020
Professor Peter Houston with Professor Chee Hing

Department says farewell to Professor Houston

The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering bid a fond farewell to ex Head of Department and colleague of over 40 years Professor Peter Houston. He was presented with various gifts and keepsakes at a lunch held in the newly opened Sir Frederick Mappin Building presented to him by the current Head of Department. In this piece Professor Houston reflects on his time in EEE and the role in which EEE could play in the future of technology.

3 February 2020
Picture of the glass roof of the Heartspace

New Engineering Heartspace revealed linking historic university buildings

The University of Sheffield has unveiled the new Engineering Heartspace which brings together the Grade II listed Sir Frederick Mappin Building and the 1855 Central Wing. The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering was set up 1917 in the Sir Frederick Mappin Building and will be moving back to there in the next few weeks now that the building works are being completed.

29 January 2020
Inside the clean room in the National Epitaxy Facility

£2.1m Quantum Technology Capital equipment investment

Professor Jon Heffernan from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Director of the National Epitaxy Facility will officially launch the EPSRC funded £2.1m Quantum Technology Capital equipment at the Sheffield Quantum Centre launch on Wednesday 22nd January 2020.

21 January 2020