The School has appointed the following staff to key research roles, where they will work on innovations in areas including healthcare, sustainability, and soft robotics.
Professor Markus Mueller and Dr Joseph Burchell have been awarded as joint winners for the University of Edinburgh's Research Impact Prize in the category of Sustained Partnership for their work with Mocean Energy.
The FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility has accelerated ocean technology for over a decade, bridging the gap between conceptual research and full-scale ocean testing.
Dr Yabin Liu has won a Scottish Renewables Young Professionals Green Energy Award for his work on flow control and fluid dynamics for the renewable energy industry.
Professor Lindsay Beevers has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). Professor Beevers is among 57 new fellows selected to join the RSE for their individual excellence and thought leadership in their respective fields, across the sciences, arts, business, professions, and the third and public sectors.
The School of Engineering is to lead two doctoral training centres (CDTs) to equip PhD students with key skills needed by the defence and security and renewable energy sectors.
The University is set to establish two research hubs that will focus on developing AI tools to help revolutionise the fields of electronics and healthcare.
Engineering researcher Dr Michael Chen is working on a new project led by the Earlham Institute, to explore whether the justice system could use single DNA cells to create DNA profiles from complex crime scene evidence.
A state-of-the-art tidal turbine blade has been manufactured in Scotland for the first time and more cheaply than before, which, engineers say, could reduce the levelised cost of tidal energy.