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Placement Year Awards 2025

Celebrating exceptional achievements at the Placement Year Awards 2025

Congratulations to our engineering students who excelled at the Placement Year Awards this year.

Race2Space team winning award
Photo credit: BIS/Geir Engene

'The Arthurs' honour Sheffield’s Race 2 Space initiative for notable achievement in space activities

The Faculty’s Race 2 Space (R2S) team was awarded the 2025 Sir Arthur Clarke Award for best Industry/Project Team by the British Interplanetary Society at an awards ceremony in London last month.

Net-Zero Industries Award logo

Major award for Flue2Chem Project at COP30 in Brazil

The Flue2Chem project has been recognised at the Net-Zero Industries award. The project received the National Winner United Kingdom award in the category of Outstanding Project.
polyurethane mesh
A section through the new material showing how it mimics the native female tissue in having three layers of interconnected fibres which distend when stretched but then bounce back to their size and shape

Hope on the horizon for women with urinary incontinence

Researchers have identified a promising alternative material for treating the condition of stress urinary incontinence.
Group of girls interacting at STEM event

Event inspires next generation of engineers

Local school children experience interactive insight into science, technology, engineering and maths at Exploring STEM event at the University of Sheffield
Students attending GEC / EYH

Enhancing Engineering Education through Alumni Mentorship

In The Faculty of Engineering our commitment is to provide students with an engineering education that extends beyond theory.
Houses being constructed at a site in the UK

Study to explore if circular economy can meet needs of UK's buildings

A new project led by researchers from Civil Engineering will explore the extent to which the circular economy could meet the UK’s building needs using zero new material extractions, zero emissions and zero waste.
loading into the FCT for FASTing into billets for forging

Sheffield to partner in new £42.5m Dstl Materials Centre of Excellence

Sheffield is delighted to be a Partner in this new advanced materials centre of excellence, and to support the development of exciting new materials for extreme environments
Gloved hands holding a syringe and small bottle of liquid

Sheffield researchers to transform vaccine manufacturing with £2m Innovate UK grant

Pandemic readiness is to be significantly boosted through new RNA vaccine manufacturing processes developed by Sheffield researchers.