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New understanding of unusually large ocean waves could help inform the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures.

Applied Mathematician Cathal Cummins together with colleagues Ignazio Maria Viola and Enrico Mastropaolo from Engineering and Madeleine Seale and Naomi Nakayama from Biology in Edinburgh have won the annual photo competition run by the EPSRC-funded UK Fluids Network. Their entry is called ‘Halo vortex lifts dandelion seeds’.

Over the weekend of 5th–7th October 2018, alumni, staff and students gathered to mark 150 years of engineering creativity at the School of Engineering.

IDCoM PhD student Euan Ward has received an award worth up to £80,000 from a body that backs emerging technologies.

Ultra-fast vibrations can be used to heat tiny amounts of liquid, experts have found, in a discovery that could have a range of engineering applications.

In January 2019, two students from the School of Engineering travelled to Harbin Engineering University in China to compete in a world-famous ice and snow sculpture competition as part of a multidisciplinary University team.

The School's Dr Javier Escudero is part of a team of researchers behind an innovative dementia diagnosis method based on machine learning.

The School of Engineering is to lead or contribute to five EPSRC-funded training centres designed to equip doctoral students with the skills needed to tackle key engineering challenges of the future.

Fiona Alderson,the School’s Technical Services Manager, has been recognised in the New Year Honours List with the Medal of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) for services to education and engineering.

A team of staff and students from the School will run in the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday 26 May 2019 in memory of Regius Professor Jason Reese who died on 8 March this year.

On Monday 4 March, over 100 guests gathered for a special public panel discussion to explore emerging engineering technologies and their future role in society.

Fifth year School students Tze Liang Chee (Electrical and Mechanical Engineering) and Nikolay Momchev (Electronics and Electrical Engineering), have recently been announced winners in the Telegraph STEM Awards 2019 Innovation Challenge category.