This week the School of Engineering is hosting a Headstart Summer School sponsored by the United Kingdom Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF). The Headstart Summer School programme provides young students a taste of university life through lectures and labs to prepare them for future study.
Edinburgh robotics experts are to join in an initiative that seeks to develop collaborations with industry and academia. The University is a founding member of the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network).
Renaldi Renaldi has been awarded the 2015 J.M. Lessells Travel Scholarship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The J.M. Lessells Travel Scholarships aim to enable engineering postgraduate students to perform some aspect of their research outside the UK.
Congratulations to Yunjie Yang winning the 2015 IEEE I&M Society Graduate Fellowship Award. The prestigious award includes $15,000 USD and complimentary 2 year I&M student membership.
This year's postgraduate Research Conference was held on 14 April 2015 in the John McIntyre Centre, Pollock Halls of Residence. The event celebrated research within the School of Engineering showcasing the work being done by our students across the six Research Institutes.
Dr Adam Stokes is a specialist in soft robotics and spent some time speaking with Sky News about the future this technology. Soft robotics are changing the way that we interact with robots as they are created from pliable material which has strength, but won't cause damage.