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KE Awards 2025

Knowledge Exchange and Impact Award winners announced

The University's second annual Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards honoured colleagues for their exceptional achievements and the far-reaching impact of their collaborations with partners at local, national and international levels.
Winning student team with certificates

Engineering student team wins People’s Prize in global design competition

Two student teams from the University of Sheffield's Global Engineering Challenge (GEC) programme represented the faculty at the Engineering for People Design Challenge 2024/25.
Students watching a presentation at a conference

2025 Engineering Research Symposium

PGR and PDRAs from the Faculty came together for the annual Engineering Researcher Symposium.
Digital generated image of H2 hydrogen molecule made out of liquid on green background.

Great British Chemicals to turn industrial waste into world-first green chemistry

A major research centre that is set to position the UK as a global leader in clean technology, is being launched by the universities of Sheffield, Newcastle and Nottingham.
COM researchers Phil McMinn and Owain Parry

Researchers find new hope through machine learning for dreaded ‘flaky test’

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science's Testing Research Group are working on innovative solutions to a problem that causes much frustration among software developers - flaky tests.
unPhone rolling off the production line

Innovative unPhone helps students learn and be creative

A locally manufactured device that looks similar to a mobile phone is offering a low-energy route for Computer Science students to learn and be creative.
Photo of the SunbYte team at the balloon launch in Sweden

Students launch new technology into space to observe the sun

Students from the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science have launched a solar telescope into the earth’s atmosphere to make observations of the sun.

Exterior image of the diamond, a large white and gold building with geometric shapes on the outside

Engineering at Sheffield subjects rank in top 10 in Guardian University Guide 2023

Engineering subjects at the University of Sheffield have been ranked among some of the best in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2023, published at the weekend (Saturday 24th September 2022).
Photo of Professor Jim Lister opening the UKCI 2022

UK Computational Intelligence Workshop hosted in Sheffield

The University of Sheffield this year hosted the UK Computational Intelligence Workshop, showcasing the latest research into neural networks, fuzzy systems and evolutionary computation.