Fire safety engineering researcher Professor Luke Bisby has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), in recognition of his exceptional contributions to his sector.
In July, Moretonhampstead Parish Council unveiled a bronze bust of George Parker Bidder, who studied mechanical engineering at Edinburgh in the early 1800s and gained recognition for his prodigal mathematical abilities.
Our BRE Chair of Fire Safety Engineering, Professor Grunde Jomaas, has received the John L. Bryan Award in recognition of his dedication to supporting and educating fire safety engineers.
A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago may have shaped the origins of human civilisation, research led by Dr Martin Sweatman suggests.
Four academics from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering have today been named in the Top 50 Women in Engineering by the Women’s Engineering Society.
We are delighted that three of our teaching staff were shortlisted in this year’s Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) Teaching Awards. In total, 86 of our staff were nominated in the Awards with many receiving multiple nominations across different categories.
Two promising early career researchers from our School have been awarded Chancellor’s Fellowships for innovative research. Dr Lucia Bandiera and Dr Colin Robert were among a select cohort of researchers across the University of Edinburgh to receive the prestigious five-year tenure track fellowship in the latest round of awards.
A cross-disciplinary team from The Alan Turing Institute and the University of Edinburgh has placed in the top 1% of more than three thousand teams who registered for the Hateful Memes Challenge, jointly organised by Facebook AI Research and DrivenData.
The School of Engineering enjoyed success in this year’s Scottish Green Energy Awards, with two category winners. The Universities of Edinburgh, Exeter, Strathclyde and the Scottish Association for Marine Sciences won the Contribution to Skills Award for the EPSRC and NERC Industrial CDT in Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE), while James Ferguson won the Young and Inspiring Award.
This month, students in the School of Engineering have been given the opportunity to apply for funding of up to £2500 for their student projects through the newly launched Engineering Student Innovation Fund.