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Student being awarded a certificate

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).
Sunride

Breaking Barriers: Project Sunride Sets New Record

Congratulations to Project Sunride who successfully hot-fired their second regenerative-cooled liquid rocket engine at Airborne Engineering Ltd in Westcott, Buckinghamshire this month.
Students in Engineering Heartspace

University of Sheffield to train next generation of engineers, key to UK growth

Engineers with high quality skills in digital manufacturing - key to boosting UK productivity - are set to be trained by the University of Sheffield.
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 Dr Danielle Densley Tingley 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.
Advances In Flood Modelling and Forecasting - Civil

Advances in Flood Modelling and Forecasting workshop

Dr Georges Kesserwani, Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering, spearheaded a two-day workshop delving into the latest “Advances in Flood Modelling and Forecasting” at the University of Sheffield on 1-2 February 2024.
Two first year students (a male and a female) building a bridge from blue Duplo bocks

Educating civil engineers for the twenty-first century: the ‘new-model engineer’

Nick Francis has co-authored a new research article on educating civil engineers in the twenty-first century.