This year’s photography competition, open to all staff and students in the Department, is sponsored by leading optical systems manufacturer Carl Zeiss (electron microscopy division).
Four new research centres that will develop new ways of manufacturing have been awarded a total of £21 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant funding.
Royal Society Research Professorships have been awarded to three world-class scientists whose research interests cover topics ranging from climate to cognition.
A virtual "talking head" which can express a full range of human emotions and could be used as a digital personal assistant has been developed by researchers in the Department of Engineering.
Dr Nathan Crilly, a lecturer in Engineering Design in the Department of Engineering, has been awarded a £1.2M fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.