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2025 Engineering Research Symposium

PGR and PDRAs from the Faculty came together for the annual Engineering Researcher Symposium and the School had two winners: Best Presentation (Session 4) for Fran Slater and Best Head of School for Prof. Martin Mayfield-Tulip.
Winning student team with certificates

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

Student's from the School win People's Prize at the Engineering for People Design Challenge 2024/25.
Technician holding his certificate

Technician takes top status with IEng professional registration

Adam Higham-Naylor, Engineering Technician from the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, has been awarded Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status.
Students from Project SunRide stood with a representative from their sponsor - Labman Automation
Students from Project Sunride who are representing the University of Sheffield in Race2Space, with their sponsor Labman Automation. Credit: Project Sunride.

UK’s future space scientists take off in world’s largest rocket firing competition finale

Some of the UK’s brightest young engineers have gathered at the historic site of Britain’s Cold War rocket programme for the climax of the world’s biggest student rocket firing competition (25 June - 11 July).
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ERS Orgainsers - 2nd L Charley Nevin, 3rd L Monica Latham

Engineering Researcher Symposium 2024 - Celebrating our Researchers and their research

The Faculty of Engineering's annual Researcher Symposium celebrated world-class researchers and their work and congratulations goes to one of the winners, 3rd year PhD Mechanical Engineering student, Qurrotin Arifianti for Best Poster 2024.
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Sunamp heat batteries are designed to provide an efficient and sustainable solution for heating and cooling

Batteries that provide energy by melting and solidifying materials up for 2024 MacRobert Award

Dr Robert Barthorpe comments on how distributed thermal storage could help cut energy bills by balancing supply and demand of renewable energy.

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Georges Kesserwani

Civil Engineering academic wins 2024 Best Reviewer Award

Dr Georges Kesserwani, Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2024 Best Reviewer Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.

The robot arm in action

Students wow judges in Siemens Digital Innovation Zone robotic arm competition

Judges were blown away by the ingenuity and creativity of four student teams who programmed a robot arm to navigate complex courses in a recent competition held at the Siemens Digital Innovation Zone (DIZ).
Four students holding posters for video games they have developed

Meet the students making video games for charity

A new range of video games raising vital funds for UK charities has been developed by a team of students at the University of Sheffield.