Engineering news

Browse news stories published by Engineering at Leicester.

2019

• Dr Andrea Lecchini-Visintini awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship
• Triple accreditation success for Engineering
• Engineering Department involved in Virtual Vauxhall Gardens project
• We have learnt, with great regret, of the death of Dr Jian Chen 
• Ramy Mesalam's paper featured on the cover of AIP Advances
• Dr Hugo Williams awarded one of 6 University-wide staff awards
• FIA Formula 1 virtual racing is coming to Leicester University Campus
• 2019 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium Student Travel Grant Awarded to one of our PhD student
• MRC DPFS grant (£941k FEC) has been Awarded to Dr Schlindwein and Professor Ng
• Dr Morales and Prof Turner awarded an EPSRC Research Project: Methods and Experiments for NOvel Rotorcraft
• Summary, photos and slides of Professor Haitao Ye's inaugural lecture are available here
• New Aerospace Engineering MSc
• Dr. Emmanuel Prempain and Dr. Matthew Turner invited to talk at the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis
• New Electrical Teaching Laboratory
• Professor Hong Dong's Paper featured in Nature Communications
• Summary and slides of the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Jonathon Chambers "A guided tour of signal processing and its applications" are available here
• Dr Bo Chen appointed Professor of Engineering Materials and Associate Director of NISCO

2018

• A journal paper co-authored by Dr Fernando Schlindwein chosen as one of journal's best
• Engineering prize winners 2017-2018
• Engineering National Student Survey Results 2018
• New laboratory equipment for fluid dynamics teaching
• Department’s Director of Learning and Teaching awarded University Distinguished Teaching Fellowship
• Academics from the Department of Engineering are recipients of the Digital Innovation Partnership Award 2018
• Our graduate, Oishi Deb, has won Sky Women in Technology Scholars grant
• Professor Jingzhe Pan awarded the prestigious 2018 Verulam Medal and Prize
• Professor Len Dissado has been awarded with the 2018 IEEE Thomas Dakin Distinguished Technical Contributions Award 2018
• Research of Dr Mateusz Bocian on pedestrian and bridge dynamics showcased on The Verge
• Our Head of Department, Professor Jonathon Chambers FREng FIEEE FIET FIMA DSc(Imperial), has been invited to serve as a Subject Editor in Signal Processing for IET Electronics Letters

2017

• IMPaCT CDT Research Seminar on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
• Big success of our star student Oishi Deb
• New Microscopes for the Department of Engineering and the Department of Geology
• Department of Engineering Experimental Officer nominated for Papin Prize Award

2016

• Oishi Deb takes second place in Jaguar Land Rover Developer Challenge 2016
• Bert Thurston Prize 2016
• Charlotte Watts wins the 1km Women’s Masters D Coxed Fours race at Henley Masters Regatta

2015

• Engineering celebrates exceptional graduates
• Leicester students design and build fully operational search and rescue UAV
• Leicester team reaches final of national Engineering Entrepreneurship competition
• 2015 Industry Lecture
• Prof Sarah Hainsworth given special achievement award