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Student Employee of the Year
Materials Science and Engineering MEng student, Dhilan Devadasan has been recognised as Student Employee of the Year by the National Association of Student Employment Services alongside colleague Máté Lukács.
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Professor MacNeil receives Chapman Medal from IoM3
Professor Sheila MacNeil was awarded the Chapman Medal by the 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.
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Leading Women in STEM: How patents protect research
Sheila MacNeil, Professor of Tissue Engineering in our Department of Materials Science and Engineering features in the Life Sciences Edition of FutureNorth, a pull out distributed with The Times.
Sheila is featured as a leading woman in STEM in a case study focused on her work with HGF, intellectual property specialists. With their support, Sheila has filed patent applications worldwide to protect her technology.
This article is located in a different section of the University of Sheffield website.
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Graduation and Student awards 2018
Students breathe a sigh of relief as the academic year comes to an end, and our final year students celebrate their achievements at their Graduation.
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Materials Science and Engineering Poster Presentations 2018
As the academic year comes to a close, assessments are plentiful. There has been a number of poster presentation sessions for different student groups, all of which have been approached with enthusiasm and have resulted in some excellent work from all who participated.
Categorised under: Undergraduate, Research and Postgraduate
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FlashyScience – taking science experiments out of the laboratory
FlashyScience is a suite of virtual experiments which allow school students to run science and engineering experiments online, repeating them as often as they like to maximise their learning potential.
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Department Image and Writing Competition Results
We have received some fantastic entries for both our annual Department Image Competition and new Writing Competition. Take a look through the entries and find out who the winners are. Which ones are your favourites?
Categorised under: Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Staff
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Royce Discovery Centre receives planning approval
The University has recently been granted planning permission by Sheffield City Council for the Royce Discovery Centre.
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More League Table Success
This week saw the release of the Complete University Guide League Table 2019. This showed that The University of Sheffield ranked 5th in the UK for undergraduate courses in Materials Technology, and fourth out of all the Russell Group Universities.
Categorised under: Undergraduate and Teaching
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Materials student wins TMS poster competition
Affaan Moosa's research into the joining of lightweight dissimilar alloys by electron beam welding has received an award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society at their Annual Meeting and Exhibition this year.
Categorised under: Research and Postgraduate
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New Titanium Production Process Heralded a Breakthrough
A novel method of processing titanium developed by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has the potential to halve production costs.
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Department welcomes visitors from Fukushima
Today we welcomed visitors 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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MAPP First International Conference Hailed a Success
MAPP’s (EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub in Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processes) First International Conference has been hailed a resounding success attracting 180 delegates and featuring keynotes from world leading experts.
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Arsenic to the rescue: Controlling radioactive contamination in abandoned uranium mine
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have unearthed a new mechanism to control radioactive contamination at South Terras, Britain’s abandoned uranium production mine, using the toxic element arsenic.
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Materials Science and Engineering become Affiliate Members of the CDP
The Department of materials Science and Engineering has become an Affiliate Partner of the Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics - the first Partner outside the United States.