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Personalised, Predictive and Preventative Healthcare
Local Sheffield company, SleepCogni, are clinically validating a system that will improve sleep and allow for remote patient monitoring. Student Joe Hawkins, from our Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE) has been involved in the project and has shown via his final year project work that SleepCogni can predict the onset of sleep through measurements taken by their wearable device.
Categorised under: Student news
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New world-leading advanced engineering research centres open in Sheffield
Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry MP and Mayor of the Sheffield City Region Dan Jarvis MP visited Sheffield to open the University of Sheffield’s three new multi-million pound research centres which aim to boost the region’s reputation as a hub for advanced engineering and industrial digital technologies.
Categorised under: Research news and Faculty news
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Success for IPE Students Recognised for 2018 Global Undergraduate Awards
A student from Bioengineering at the University of Sheffield has reached the finals of the Global Undergraduate Awards, the world's largest international academic awards programme.
Categorised under: Faculty news, Student news and International News
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Two Sheffield Professors awarded Fellowships by the Royal Academy of Engineering
Two of our Professors have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession.
Categorised under: Research news and Faculty news
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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.
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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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