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Researchers collaborating on ambitious £5.54m manufacturing innovation project
An ambitious research project involving the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the Department of Physics and the National Epitaxy Facility at The University of Sheffield aims to develop new manufacturing techniques for advanced materials and devices and has been awarded more than £5m in funding.
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Inspiring young people to get up to speed with engineering
Over 2,000 school children from across South Yorkshire have been getting hands-on with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing) with the help of Engineering students from the University of Sheffield.
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Understanding Eggs: How mechanical engineering helped leading zoologist crack an egg shaped question
Research from a leading zoologist at the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences that also involved input from our Mechanical Engineering academics has been featured in a nature documentary with Sir David Attenborough.
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Engineering at Sheffield welcomes new Airbus RAEng Chair in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Ashutosh Tiwari as the new Airbus / Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Research Chair in Digitisation for Manufacturing.
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Sheffield Aerospace Students win £5000 Prize in UK Space Agency Challenge
Three Aerospace students from the University of Sheffield have won a £5k prize after entering a UK Space Agency challenge with their proposal for an automated person detection system for use in humanitarian response to natural disasters.
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New carbon capture testing facility
A consortium, including academics from our Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been awarded a research and development grant worth almost £900,000 by the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The grant will enable the progression of research into lowering the cost of carbon capture technology.
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Honeybees may unlock the secrets of how the human brain works
Researchers from our Department of Computer Science have discovered that looking at honeybees in a colony in the same way as neurons in a brain could help us better understand the basic mechanisms of human behaviour.
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Britain’s emissions dropped by six per cent in 2016 by switching from coal to natural gas
A collaborative study by Dr Grant Wilson from our Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Energy 2050 and Dr Iain Staffell from the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, highlights the scale and speed of emissions reduction in Britain as a result of fuel switching from coal to natural gas through effective carbon pricing.
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Sheffield Researchers find a way to halve the cost of titanium
Researchers from our Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in collaboration with colleagues from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), have announced a breakthrough in the production of titanium by reducing the 40 stage process down to just two steps and potentially halving the cost.
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Sheffield aims to inspire next generation of female engineers
The University of Sheffield, this week (20 March 2018), welcomed 600 local female school pupils to the Octagon Centre to learn about how they can transform the world through science, technology, engineering and maths at the annual Exploring STEM for Girls event.
Categorised under: Women in Engineering, Public Engagement and Student news
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Women in Engineering Student Society Raise Aspirations at the Big Bang Fair
The University of Sheffield’s Women in Engineering Student Society is bringing Virtual Reality to the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) at this year’s Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair.
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New research on the strength of children's bones could help in the design of safer car seats
Our Engineers have successfully used computer simulated models and medical imaging to test the strength of young children’s bones, producing results which could help car seat manufacturers design safer car seats for young children.
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Hands-on workshop helps UK lawmakers explain AI
Two team members from the Department of Computer Science’s Research Software Engineering team recently visited the House of Commons to deliver a training session on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to MPs.
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Materials Science welcome Visitors from Fukishima to discuss Nuclear Decommissioning
Our Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomed visitors today from the National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College in Japan, to look around our research facilities and talk about the work we are doing in the area of nuclear decommissioning and environmental recovery.
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Employability Team Finalists in Prestigious Industry Awards
The Faculty’s Employability Placement team were shortlisted in the ‘Most Improved Commitment to Employability’ category in the recent National Undergraduate Employability (NUE) Awards 2018.
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