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All the latest news from the Faculty of Engineering. 
Placement Year Awards 2024

Celebrating exceptional achievements at the inaugural Placement Year Awards 2024

Engineering students from Aerospace, EEE & Computer Science won at the recent University Placement Awards, winning the Celebrating Resilience and Engineering Placement Student of the Year awards, and placing Highly Commended in 3 other categories
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Success at the IChemE Global Awards

At this year’s IChemE Global Awards, we had six finalists and proudly returned with two prize winners and one highly commended project.
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From Rubble to Green Building Materials: UK-Ukraine Project Launched

New project seeks to revolutionize Ukraine's post-conflict reconstruction, expediting its recovery and promoting environmentally sustainable rebuilding practices in a new joint venture.
91Ö±²¥ city skyline

91Ö±²¥'s response to the independent review of university spin-out companies

91Ö±²¥ welcomes the announcement of £20m to help universities develop more spinout companies made in the autumn statement today (22 November) as well as the independent review of spin-out companies released yesterday.
A close up of plastic pellets produced by Floreon

World’s first low-energy bioplastics developed with the University of 91Ö±²¥ raises £2 million investment

The world’s first low-energy, non-oil-based, high-performance bioplastic, developed by Floreon with the University of 91Ö±²¥, has secured £2 million financing from Northern Gritstone.
The Sunride team visits Parliament

Engineering students visit Parliament

Recently, the Sunride Committee, (an extracurricular rocket engineering project at the University of 91Ö±²¥) and Dr Alistair John, visited Parliament to speak to MP, Mark Garnier, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Space.
Students walking towards a building on Penn State's campus with lots of green spaces and trees around them

University of 91Ö±²¥ expands research partnership with Penn State

91Ö±²¥ and Pennsylvania State University have agreed to expand their research partnership which will drive their joint research and innovation in more areas such as energy, materials science, semiconductors and sustainability
Tuck Seng Wong stood outside the Sir Frederick Mappin building

91Ö±²¥ to lead £7.6 million UK-South East Asia Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub

A new vaccine manufacturing hub designed to address current and future pandemics/epidemics in South East Asia is to be led by University of 91Ö±²¥ researchers.