8 November 2022
\n \n \n \nThe programme is designed to increase the number of engineering students from socio-economically disadvantaged or under-represented backgrounds and help address the UK skills shortage
\n \n\n \n \n3 November 2022
\n \n \n \nThe grant to Professor Natalia Ares from the Department of Engineering Science will fund the ASPECTS consortium, which brings together leading experimental and theoretical physicists across Europe with the common goal of uncovering the limitations of natural timekeeping devices to assess whether precision measurements can be more energy efficient.
\n \n\n \n \n24 October 2022
\n \n \n \n'How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do?', asks Oxford DPhil candidate in Engineering Science, Michael K Cohen, and his co-author Marcus Hutter from the Australian National University, in this article which highlights the potential risks of relying on the 'reinforcement learning' approach in AI research.
\n \n\n \n \n21 October 2022
\n \n \n \nFour researchers from across the University of Oxford, including two from the Department of Materials and the Department of Engineering Science, have been awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes \u2013 the largest number awarded to researchers of any single UK university.
\n \n\n \n \n20 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 2022 Oxford Electric Vehicle Summit will focus on growth and investment, as it returns to Oxford University\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School. The event is in partnership with Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University and aims to deliver on decarbonised transport in the UK, and beyond.
\n \n\n \n \n14 October 2022
\n \n \n \nMPLS DPhil candidates Liliane Momeni and Sheheryar Zaidi have taken up prestigious Google PhD Fellowships, each worth $60,000, after been selected from a highly competitive field of applicants last year.
\n \n\n \n \n29 September 2022
\n \n \n \nMichael K. Cohen, graduate student in the Department of Engineering Science, writes about AI, chess and the difficulty of identifying cheating in an article first published on the Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n22 September 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessors Niki Trigoni and David Hills are among 72 leading figures in engineering and technology to be elected as Fellows of The Royal Academy of Engineering this week.
\n \n\n \n \n1 September 2022
\n \n \n \nA summit today at Oxford University\u2019s Blavatnik School of Government will explore and map how innovation can help the world to net zero, faster.
\n \n\n \n \n26 August 2022
\n \n \n \nThe partnership aims to increase the number of women from low- and middle-income countries who take up offers to study Master's programmes in MPLS departments, with the first Optiver Foundation Scholars joining in October 2023.
\n \n\n \n \n24 August 2022
\n \n \n \nEach year, the Royal Society recognises exceptional research achievements through a series of prestigious medals and prizes named after great scientists of the past. This year eight Oxford University researchers, six of them from MPLS Division, have been honoured for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine.
\n \n\n \n \n29 July 2022
\n \n \n \nThe new air-powered hand provides a lightweight, low-maintenance and easy-to-use body-powered prosthetic option particularly well suited for children and those in low and middle-income countries.
\n \n\n \n \n26 July 2022
\n \n \n \nFourth-year student Anahy Mercado Zambrana has been recognised with an upReach Student Social Mobility Award, awarded annually to ten students from lower socio-economic backgrounds, across the UK, who have excelled in their studies and show great potential for their future careers.
\n \n\n \n \n20 July 2022
\n \n \n \nA profile of Professor Byron Byrne in the Department of Engineering Science. In 2021, Professor Byron Byrne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his research contributions to offshore wind.
\n \n\n \n \n15 July 2022
\n \n \n \nEngineering students were amongst those involved in a team of 50 students from across the University who worked together to build an electric car showcased at the IMechE Formula Student event held at the home of British Motor Racing, earlier this month.
\n \n\n \n \n11 July 2022
\n \n \n \nEleven MPLS researchers have been recognised in this year\u2019s MPLS Impact Awards, which showcase research impact across the division and help us to identify examples of impact excellence that will help us to prepare the ground for future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions and similar exercises.
\n \n\n \n \n30 June 2022
\n \n \n \nOxford biomechanics researchers have been using computer simulations and Hollywood-style motion capture to reveal how Harris hawks optimise their landing manoeuvres for an accurate descent.
\n \n\n \n \n23 June 2022
\n \n \n \nDPhil Systems Engineering student, Nadja Yang has been recognised as one of the UK's top 50 women engineers who are creating or significantly improving products or processes to make a difference in the world, on International Women in Engineering Day.
\n \n\n \n \n22 June 2022
\n \n \n \nRoyal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Dr Tingting Zhu, has been awarded Royal Society funding to lead an international collaboration that aims to develop an open-source platform for cardiac monitoring, using machine-learning.
\n \n\n \n \n15 June 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Fellowships were announced by Science Minister George Freeman this morning, to help the UK\u2019s most promising science and research leaders to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations within the UK.
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