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, the University’s rocketry team Endeavour won the Mach-21 CanSat student rocket launch competition with their innovative satellite-in-a-can design.
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.
Professor Sean Smith has proposed a new technical taskforce to retrofit millions of Scotland’s homes, as part of a proposed strategy to slash greenhouse gas emissions recently published by the Scottish Government.
Over summer, we ran a virtual summer school, providing fun, hands-on engineering activities to young people across the UK as part of an initiative to encourage them to consider university-level study.