News

News stories

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.
Winning student team with certificates

Engineering student team wins Peopleā€™s Prize in global design competition

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

UKā€™s future space scientists take off in worldā€™s largest rocket firing competition finale

Some of the UKā€™s brightest young engineers have gathered at the historic site of Britainā€™s Cold War rocket programme for the climax of the worldā€™s biggest student rocket firing competition (25 June - 11 July).
Frank with student Stenee showing off the plating aids

Blind Sheffield chef plates up in style thanks to studentsā€™ innovation

A passionate amateur chef whoā€™s been blind since the age of 21 is finally able to present his dishes in style thanks to the ingenuity and innovation of a team led by a Mechanical Engineering student.
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

Ā鶹ֱ²„app 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 UKā€™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 ā€œAdvances in Flood Modelling and Forecastingā€ 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 ā€˜new-model engineerā€™

Nick Francis has co-authored a new research article on educating civil engineers in the twenty-first century.
Three people posing together left to right - Edward John (young man with brown hair and slight beard wearing a black suit), John Yates (elderly white male standing in the middle), and Beth Eames (young white female with light brown hair wearing a white top and a long black skirt)

One of our PGR students has won the prestigious Peter Watson Prize for young engineers

Our fourth-year PhD student, Edward John, has won the prestigious Engineering Integrity Society (EIS) Peter Watson Prize for young engineers.