Sheffield Engineering Gateway April Newsletter

In This Issue
Nuclear Materials Laboratory
Autonomous Car Racing
Conferences and Events
April 2015
Newsletter for business and industry innovators.
University Awarded £1 million to Expand Pioneering Nuclear
Materials Laboratory
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has awarded a grant of £800,000 to establish a
new £1.2 million research facility at the University of Sheffield, to develop new technologies for
the safe treatment and disposal of radioactive wastes from a planned expansion of nuclear power
in the UK.
The funding capitalises on a recent investment of £2 million by the University to create a state of
the art nuclear research laboratories in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
which is an internationally recognised authority in radioactive waste management and disposal.
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/grant-for-nuclear-labratories-1.452920
EEE Autonomous Car Racing Students Win 1st Place to
Qualify for European Finals
A team of Electronic and Electrical Engineering final year students have taken pole position at an
autonomous car racing event hosted by the Deggendorf Institute of Applied Sciences. Team
SIMBA competed against 19 other teams to go through to the European finals of the Freescale
Cup. The Freescale Cup is a global competition with over 23,000 students taking part in building,
programming and racing an autonomous model car around a track for speed. Using only
cameras and motion sensors with no human interaction, the fastest car to complete the race
circuit without more than two wheels leaving the track wins. This year 159 teams entered the
European region competition, with the qualifying 21 teams going to the EMEA final at the end of
April hosted by the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. The winning team will secure a place to
compete in the world final at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany
in September against teams from around the globe.
Full article including pictures and video of the car in action.
Co-working Open Day at The Bioincubator
Friday 10th April
The Bioincubator coworking space is a space designed for entrepreneurs to collocate in a
university environment. All the desks come with wifi, broadband, a phone and power; we’ll also
provide free tea and coffee. Use this form to book a desk in the Bioincubator co-working facility
on Friday 10th April.
You can also join us for a drink and a chat from 4.30pm in The View, Bioincubator at Beer, Pizza
and Pitching. Book here
If you'd like to find out more about Bioincubator Co-working please see our website
If you have any questions about using the space please get in touch: Zara Crudace or 0114 222
4618
An Introduction to Managing Employees for Small Business
Owners
Friday 17 April, 9-11am, Innovation Centres Bioincubator, Leavy Greave Road
Our Innovation Centres work directly with businesses who engage with research at our
University, and we know a lot of University staff, both professional and academic, have used their
passion for higher education or the skills they have built at the University to spark their own
entrepreneurial ventures.
Whether you have established your business, you are considering setting one up, or
you have an idea and you're interested in taking it forward, come and learn about
the practicalities of managing employees.
The seminar will include practical advice on employment law, managing staff incentives and
employment tax, some of which has changed since the presentation of the recent budget.
Register for the event here
INSIGNEO Showcase 2015
8th May 2015 Firth Hall, Firth Court, Sheffield
Join us for the 2015 Insigneo Showcase. As well as featuring Insigneo research
activities from a variety of areas, we will put a spotlight on Big Data Analytics.
http://insigneo.org/showcase_2015
Save the Date!
24 June 2015
University of Sheffield Engineering Symposium at
The Octagon Centre
Now in it’s third year, this all day event is organised by students,
doing a PhD within the Faculty of Engineering, to showcase their
research.
A video of last year’s event can be seen here
The day includes themed sessions, panel
debates and guest speakers as well as a
poster exhibition.
This is an opportunity for industry
representatives to find out more about
research collaborations and the
advantages of recruiting at
postdoctoral level by coming and
talking to our students.
So put the date in your diary and look
out for the booking details
Innovations in Healthcare
13th July 2015, Octagon Centre, Sheffield
Join us to find out how your organisation can
benefit from our expertise.
The University of Sheffield is at the forefront of healthcare research and in the past
few years has collaborated with over 2000 organisations, both large and small, to
find ground breaking solutions to real world problems.
At this year’s conference you can expect to:
Take inspiration from our guest speaker, whose life has been transformed by
ground breaking health technology.
Find out what the Northern Health Science Alliance is doing to boost health
innovation in The North.
Hear Industry’s experiences of collaborating with the University of Sheffield.
Find out how your business could tap into recruitment services at the
University.
Book 1:1 networking sessions with academics and industry
experts from across the health sector.
For more information please contact Karen Booth.
Freescale Technical Forum
22-25 June in Austin, Texas, USA
With 3 full days of training and over 350 hours of technical training FTF Americas has
never been so large and exciting as this one. This years’ FTF is organised at the
home of Freescale: Austin, Texas at the brand new JW Marriott hotel.
For the 10th anniversary of the Freescale Technology Forum we are launching an
Extra Early Bird Registration period until May 3rd with extra entrance fee
reductions. Make sure you come on our site and see for yourself how much you can
learn, network and see at the FTF Americas.
Subsea UK in the North of England – Integrated Solutions
30 April 2015 at AMRC with Boeing, Advanced Manufacturing Park, Rotherham, S60 5TZ
Organised in collaboration with the AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) this event
will focus on how companies in the North West could create more of a cluster to foster
collaboration.
http://www.subseauk.com/5728/subsea-uk-in-the-north-west
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