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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).
Brick Model 3d Results (ferrite green, pearlite orange and yellow)
Modelled microstructure after 20000 wheel passes. The initially smooth surface has developed roughness, cracks, and permanent deformation in response to wheel loads.

Building a better, safer railway future through research and development

Professor David Fletcher and engineering student Philomenah Holladay, presented a groundbreaking approach to modelling rail defects at the Vehicle Track Interface Seminar 2025.

| Published by Rail Engineer
Students from Project Sunride stood in front of their rocket - Desert Winds

To infinity: the story of the UK's groundbreaking student liquid rocket

‘Desert Winds: The UK's First Student Liquid Rocket’ documentary, premiered on Saturday 22nd March in the Diamond Building, at the University of Sheffield.
Image of a white building with red roofing and a clocktower.
Image credit: File: Balme Library of University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balme_Library_of_University_of_Ghana,_Accra,_Ghana.jpg) Author: Rjruiziii, License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Collaboration between the Insigneo Institute and the University of Ghana

Dr Jennifer Rowson & Professor Claire Brockett, will travel to Ghana with Dr Ning Ma & Dr Chen Chen from the School of Computer Science to identify challenges & opportunities, and deliver a summer school to foster research skills and academic growth.
John Gibbins public lecture

Time is running out for carbon capture success – but competing interests are delaying projects

Professor Jon Gibbins, director of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre, features in this piece from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

| Published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Andrew Ratcliffe giving a talk to students

Shaping the future of space education and research at Sheffield

The UK Space Agency visited the Faculty, providing Aerospace students & Faculty leadership with valuable insights into their global activities, while exploring potential collaborative opportunities to advance space research & education at Sheffield.