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Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering achieve top-five places in Guardian rankings 2027

Outstanding results highlight the School’s strength across its subject areas
Meihong Wang, James Marshall, Ian Reaney

Three academics from the Faculty of Engineering have been elected as Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows

Congratulations to Professor Meihong Wang and Professor Ian Reaney from the School who join the Royal Academy of Engineering as Fellows.
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Dr Karl Travis joins the Independent Advisory Committee for the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center (DBDC)

The Deep Borehole Demonstration Center has added three experts to its Independent Advisory Committee. Dr Karl Travis joins Emeritus Professor Neil Chapman, who is Chair of the committee.

Mockup of Xerode’s dry electrode printing system
Mockup of Xerode’s dry electrode printing system, capable of continuous roll-to-roll manufacture.

Spinout spotlight: Xerode

Xerode, a spinout from the University of Sheffield’s School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, is developing a solvent-free, dry digital printing process for coating battery electrodes.

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Helping alternative proteins go mainstream for a sustainable planet

51²è¹Ý¶ù will co-lead a new £38 million centre to develop planet-friendly alternatives to animal proteins that could soon be a sustainable and nutritious part of our diets.
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Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery

The key to curing male pattern baldness - a condition that affects up to 50 per cent of men worldwide - could lie in a sugar that naturally occurs in the human body, according to scientists at the University of Sheffield.
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Our courses are ranked among the top in the Russell Group in the National Student Survey 

Our undergraduate degree programmes have all been ranked highly within the Russell Group across the seven different themes in the latest National Student Survey (NSS) being in the top 10 across all of them.
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Industry visits offer Pharmaceutical Engineering students invaluable learning experience

Students in the Pharmaceutical Engineering MSc program have been granted beneficial industry insights through organised visits to AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Almac.