News News stories All the latest news from the Faculty of Engineering. 4 July 2025 Knowledge Exchange and Impact Award winners announced The University's second annual Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards honoured colleagues for their exceptional achievements and the far-reaching impact of their collaborations with partners at local, national and international levels. 3 July 2025 Engineering student team wins People’s Prize in global design competition Two student teams from the University of Sheffield's Global Engineering Challenge (GEC) programme represented the faculty at the Engineering for People Design Challenge 2024/25. 30 June 2025 Great British Chemicals to turn industrial waste into world-first green chemistry A major research centre that is set to position the UK as a global leader in clean technology, is being launched by the universities of Sheffield, Newcastle and Nottingham. Students from Project Sunride who are representing the University of Sheffield in Race2Space, with their sponsor Labman Automation. Credit: Project Sunride. 26 June 2025 UK’s future space scientists take off in world’s largest rocket firing competition finale Some of the UK’s brightest young engineers have gathered at the historic site of Britain’s Cold War rocket programme for the climax of the world’s biggest student rocket firing competition (25 June - 11 July). Search Reflections on collaborating with Tom Scott and the importance of making research accessible Senior Lecturer, Dr Sam Rigby, from the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, recently collaborated with YouTuber Tom Scott. 28 June 2023 Honeybees make rapid, accurate decisions and could inspire future of AI, study suggests New research revealing how honeybees can make fast and accurate decisions, which could help to design more efficient robots and autonomous machines, has been published by scientists at the University of Sheffield. 27 June 2023 AI unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless connected to real world through robots Connecting artificial intelligence systems to the real world through robots and designing them using principles from evolution is the most likely way AI will gain human-like cognition, according to Department of Computer Science research. 19 June 2023 University of Sheffield duo win prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes Congratulations to Professor Serena Cussen and Professor Claire Corkhill who have both been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry 2023 Research & Innovation Prizes. 13 June 2023 Professor Racheal Rothman South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre has placed sustainability at the heart of our region Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Director of the South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre, Rachael Rothman, highlights the region's sustainable needs. 30 May 2023 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Current page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 … Next page Next › Last page Last »