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Searching for new bridge forms that can span further
Newly identified bridge forms could enable significantly longer bridge spans to be achieved in the future, potentially making a crossing over the Strait of Gibraltar, from the Iberian Peninsula to Morocco, feasible.
The new bridge forms – identified by researchers from the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield – use a new mathematical modelling technique to identify optimal forms for very long-span bridges.
Categorised under: Research news
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Former EEE student honoured in top 50 Women in Engineering 2018
2018 has seen a celebration of Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) from the Women's Engineering Society (WES), one of which is former Electronic & Electrical student Carol Morris.
Categorised under: Women in Engineering, Faculty news and Student news
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Engineering fuses with the arts for Sheffield city festival
Engineers join forces with local artists to showcase academic research at part of city-wide festival displaying research using photography, virtual reality, dance and art installations.
Categorised under: Research news, Public Engagement and Faculty news
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Research shows MP Twitter abuse increased between 2015 and 2017 general elections
Abuse of politicians online increased substantially in the snap 2017 general election compared to the 2015 general election, according to new research led by Professor Kalina Bontcheva from our Department of Computer Science.
Categorised under: Research news and Faculty news
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Project SunbYte Integration Tests in Texas!
Team SunbYte have just returned home from an exciting trip to Palestine, Texas (US) for an integration event, where they worked alongside NASA engineers in order to get permission to launch their experiment in New Mexico on 4th September 2018.
Categorised under: Faculty news and Student news
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Department of Computer Science joins Amazon’s Alexa Fellowship
Amazon today (22 August 2018) announced the Alexa Graduate Fellowship, designed to foster research and education by supporting PhD and post-doctoral students specializing in conversational AI. The University of Sheffield is among the first universities outside the US to participate in the programme.
Categorised under: Research news, Faculty news and Student news
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Engineering Students are Flying High
Flying High: students from our departments of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering took to the skies as part of an International Drone Competition.
Categorised under: Student news
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Summer school inspires engineers of the future
Summer school inspires engineers of the future
Categorised under: Women in Engineering, Public Engagement and Faculty news
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Research highly commended at Industry Awards Ceremony
Two academics from our Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor Will Zimmerman and Pratik Desai, had their research project awarded highly commended at a recent international industry award ceremony.
Categorised under: Research news and Faculty news
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Record-breaking microscope developed using methods pioneered by Sheffield engineers
A revolutionary microscope that has produced images in the highest resolution ever obtained has been developed by researchers using microscopic techniques pioneered by Professor John Rodenburg and Andrew Maiden in our Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
It could be used to determine the atomic structure of materials that are normally damaged using existing methods
Categorised under: Research news, Faculty news and International News
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Going out of this world to inspire next generation of engineers
SELA (Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy) and Sent Into Space, a company run by two Sheffield PhD graduates, have partnered in a bid to inspire young people into engineering by sending schoolchildren’s cards to the edge of space. After being launched into the stratosphere, the stamped cards are now back on planet earth and the schoolchildren will today (19th July) receive certificates confirming that their card has been into space, and see footage from the launch.
Categorised under: Public Engagement, Faculty news and Student news
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Sheffield is one of leading universities uniting to strengthen UK aerospace sector
It has been announced today (18th July) at the Farnborough Airshow that the University of Sheffield will be part of a national consortium to provide the global aerospace community with a centralised point of engagement to the UK’s top university aerospace research capabilities.
Categorised under: Research news and Faculty news
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Comment: Do drones deserve their dire reputation? Depends who is flying them
Jonathan Aitken from our Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, discusses the use of drones in The Conversation.
Categorised under: Research news, Faculty news and Comment and Discussion
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National Recognition for Engineering Student Employees
Two exceptionally talented engineering students have been acknowledged for their commercial contribution to a local SME as student employees.
University of Sheffield students, Máté Lukács (Mechanical Engineering) and Dhilan Devadasan (Materials Science and Engineering), both won national ‘Student Employee of the Year’ awards - organised by the National Association of Student Employment Services (NASES) – in the ‘Commercial Impact Off Campus’ category.
Categorised under: Student news
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Professor Sheil MacNeil receives prestigious award
Professor Sheila MacNeil was awarded the Chapman Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3) at their Premier Awards Dinner this week. The Medal is presented for distinguished research in the field of biomedical materials, particularly with respect to biomaterials innovation.
Categorised under: Women in Engineering and Faculty news
This article is located in a different section of the University of Sheffield website.