Diamond Engineering

A striking structure that is home to over 6,000 students from the Faculty of Engineering. Seven engineering departments and three interdisciplinary programmes use The Diamond and is home to the CATE award winning Multidisciplinary Engineering Education team.

The Diamond has the capacity to educate even more of the top quality engineers that the UK needs to address the skills shortage in the sector, those that will go on to tackle the biggest challenges facing the modern world.

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An engineering student learning in The Diamond. Two others students look on. They all have goggles and lab coats on.

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News and Events

International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces

In November 2022, Dr Pete Mylon and Ryan Jones travelled to Atlanta, GA, to attend the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM ‘22). In this blog, Pete discusses the things they learned, and the opportunities they had to share about the University of Sheffield’s iForge makerspace.

MEE Achieves Athena Swan Bronze Award

We are excited to announce that we have achieved our Athena Swan bronze award in recognition of our gender equality initiatives and good working practices!

We were praised for the excellent financial support that we provide for staff training and development.

Photograph of the team of colleagues from MEE/EEE beind the new, grant-winning project — The team from Multidisciplinary Engineering Education and the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering who are behind the new, grant-winning project

Sheffield academics awarded unprecedented funding to expand access to practical engineering education

Led by colleagues from the Multidisciplinary Engineering Education and Electronic and Electrical Engineering Departments at Sheffield, a new and unique project has been awarded £633.5k in funding by UK Research and Innovation

Diamond Engineering, inspiring engineers of the future!

On the 19 January, The Diamond Engineering team welcomed more than forty Year 10 students from Stocksbridge High to spend the day at The Diamond to take part in a number of interactive practical engineering activities.

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We are a cross-faculty department responsible for delivering practical teaching for the Faculty of Engineering within extensive laboratory and workshop facilities.