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The horizontal axis wind turbine rotor that was studied

Undergraduate team wins first prize at AIAA Student Conference in Melbourne

27 November 2024

A team of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering third and fourth-year students has won first prize in the team presentation category at the prestigious AIAA Student Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, on 25th and 26th November. Competing against 13 international entries in the team category, the students emerged in the first place … [more]

Hands holding jigsaw pieces

SEMS undergraduates present education research at CREME-EECS Staff Scholarship Exchange Webinar

24 November 2024

In the first-of-its-kind entirely student-led CREME-EECS Staff Scholarship Exchange Webinar (a shared community-of-practice between the SEMS Centre for Research in Engineering and Materials Education and the EECS Educational Scholarship Centre), 5 SEMS undergraduate students presented their ongoing STEM education research work to academic staff from the scholarship centres of both Schools. … [more]

Dr Shah and Dr Geiringer poster presentation for the QMUL Festival of Education 2024

'Locating communities in community-based learning': reflections from a QMUL-funded community engagement grant project

19 November 2024

In recent years, there has been a growing effort in implementing community-based learning and teaching (CBLT), which describes an educational experience in which students engage in organised activities that benefit the local community as part of their academic curriculum. CBLT enables students to not only strengthen their academic knowledge, but … [more]

The Infinite Monkey Cage

James Busfield is a Guest on BBC Radio 4 Show - The Infinite Monkey Cage

15 November 2024

James Busfield has made an appearance on the BBC Radio 4 show The Infinite Monkey Cage. In the episode, titled Fantastic Elastic, James joins an incredible panel, including gold medal winning Olympian Bryony Page, comedian Jessica Fostekew, and materials expert Anna Ploszajski, alongside hosts Brian Cox and Robin Ince, to delve … [more]

In the photo are the 18 QMUL visitors from the 7th November visit as well as all of the different Zotefoams tour guides.

Zotefoams Host Site Visits in SEMS SKEMP Week

7 November 2024

Zotefoams, a FTSE listed manufacturer of polymer foams based in Croydon, hosted two delegations of students from SEMS during SKEMP week. The technical support manager, Dr Leena-Marie Wilson explained the process to make closed cell foamed polymer materials for a diverse range of applications including: lightweighting in transportation, impact protection, … [more]

Our in-person IAB members

SEMS Industrial Advisory Board meets

5 November 2024

The SEMS Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) met on Tuesday 5th November to discuss our taught programmes and delivery of skills training. It was attended by 14 members of our IAB along with SEMS staff and members of our Student Voice Committee. Topics for discussion included skills development on our Design Innovation &… [more]

Ilan presenting at QMCUR Undergraduate Research Week

Student has two abstracts accepted by prestigious international conferences

4 November 2024

Third-year undergraduate student Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy, who has been working on a joint cross-national education research project with Dr Rehan Shah from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Dr Alexandra Werth from Cornell University has had two of his abstracts for upcoming conference proceedings papers accepted at two prestigious global … [more]

Dr Rehan Shah

Dr Rehan Shah and team from UCL and TISS awarded global ACU HE Sustainability grant

4 November 2024

Dr Rehan Shah (SEMS) from QMUL and an international team of multi-disciplinary colleagues comprising Dr Anne Preston (Institute of Education) from University College London (UCL) and Dr Praveen Kumar (School of Habitat Studies) and Dr Neha Christie (School of Skill Education) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India … [more]

Structural stress analysis of the turbine's blades

Student research paper accepted to AIAA Student Conference

27 October 2024

A group of undergraduate students, including fourth year (MEng) aerospace and mechanical engineering students Milcha Masresha , Andrews Agyei , Raima Rahman, Omar Abdi, Aamna Abbasi and Imad Foughali, and third year aerospace student Hardit Saini, have successfully had their research paper on wind turbines accepted to the American Institute of Aeronautics … [more]

The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

Dr Rehan Shah awarded grant to present applied mathematics research at international conference

18 October 2024

Dr Rehan Shah has been awarded funding from the Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics Fund (QJMAM) administered by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) to attend and present his latest research at the major international European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC) being held in July 2025 in Lyon, … [more]

Professor Dr Aqif Anwar Chaudhry

Queen Mary Materials Science graduate to lead Pakistani University

17 October 2024

Professor Dr Aqif Anwar Chaudhry has recently become the Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, in Lahore, Pakistan. Aqif started his research career at the Department of Materials at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) as a PhD student. Professor Chaudhry’s PhD, on 'Continuous Hydrothermal Flow Synthesis … [more]

Liz Tanner at the QMUL Clock starting the video.

Materials Science Professor leads Gen Z tour of campus for Queen Mary TikTok

15 October 2024

During an Open Day for prospective Undergraduate students on Saturday 5 October, the Queen Mary Social Media Team took the opportunity to scout out an academic to appear in our latest video. The video is contributing to the social media meme of staff members giving tours with scripts written by Gen … [more]

Students are shown how to measure the mechanical properties of chocolate bars

Inspiring young future materials scientists at New Scientist Live

14 October 2024

Materials scientists and engineers from Queen Mary's School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) engaged students at Schools' Day at the New Scientist Live Event at London's ExCeL Centre. Schools' Day welcomes over 6,000 students with thought-provoking talks, ground-breaking discoveries, interactive experiences and hands-on activities. Representing Discover Materials, the … [more]

The Levelling Up for Mathematics programme has been running in the UK successfully since 2021

Levelling Up Mathematics for Engineering programme launched

4 October 2024

Dr Rehan Shah (Institute of Mathematics Academic Representative for Queen Mary School of Engineering and Materials Science) and Michael Woolley (Outreach and Recruitment Manager) have introduced a new Levelling Up Maths for Engineering programme, supported by the Institute of Mathematics and the Royal Academy of Engineering. The programme follows on … [more]

Python programming toolkit

Queen Mary students and Dr Rehan Shah co-create Python programming toolkit for undergraduate students

24 September 2024

In response to student feedback from previous runs of the first-year undergraduate SEMS mathematics module, Dr Rehan Shah in conjunction with three former students (Mr Muhie Sultan Faisal Al Haimus, Mr Yash Vaghela and Mr Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy) from his modules who are part of his research group, have co-created a … [more]

QMUL co-created resources

Dr Rehan Shah speaks at the UK History for Diversity in Mathematics Network

19 September 2024

Dr Rehan Shah was specially invited to deliver a session talk for a workshop organised by the UK History for Diversity in Mathematics Network at the University of Manchester to report on the outcomes and findings from his Queen Mary project on 'Making Diversity Count: empowering students through co-creation of … [more]

Advance HE Fellowship

SEMS student awarded Advance HE Associate Fellowship AFHEA and QMUL SEED award for educational practice and scholarship

14 August 2024

Queen Mary School of Engineering and Materials Science final year PhD student Ziyu Guo has been successful in securing both the Associate Fellowship (AFHEA) of Advance HE and the Student Enhanced Engagement and Development (SEED) Award from the Queen Mary Academy for his significant and outstanding contributions as a teaching … [more]

King's College, Cambridge

Queen Mary undergraduate Engineering student reflects on his Cambridge Vacation Scholarship Award

12 August 2024

Barbaros Zeren, a first-year Aerospace Engineering undergraduate student under the supervision and mentorship of Dr Rehan Shah and part of the Queen Mary Centre for Undergraduate Research, was awarded the QMUL-Cambridge Long Vacation Scholarship, which enabled him to spend a period of four weeks from July-August at Kings College, Cambridge … [more]

Dr Deepshikha

Dr Deepshikha secured the prestigious Drapers’ Fund for Innovation in Learning and Teaching for AI-Driven Grading Project

31 July 2024

Dr Deepshikha Deepshikha, at the School of Engineering and Materials Science, has been awarded The Drapers’ Fund for Innovation in Learning and Teaching for a project, titled 'EduMark AI: AI-Driven Grading and Personalised Student Feedback to Save Educator Time', which aims to revolutionise the assessment and feedback process within … [more]

Dr Rehan Shah

Dr Rehan Shah and QMUL colleagues awarded the President and Principal's Fund for Educational Excellence for 'SustainAbility in the Curriculum' project

26 July 2024

Dr Rehan Shah and a team of QMUL colleagues from various schools across the university have been successfully awarded the President and Principal's Fund for Educational Excellence for their project titled 'SustainAbility in the curriculum: Developing Queen Mary’s virtual greenspace for sustainability awareness '. The university-wide project is … [more]

Hyperlink's Braking Team with the award

Hyperlink wins at Hyperloop Global Competition

30 June 2024

Hyperlink, Queen Mary University of London's Hyperloop team, was recognised with the 'Braking System Award' at the 2024 Hyperloop Global Competition. Hyperlink competed in the annual event, hosted by Toronto Metropolitan University, alongside a range of local and international teams. They were the only UK team present at this year'… [more]

QMUL SEED Award

SEMS student wins QMUL SEED award for educational scholarship

18 June 2024

Queen Mary School of Engineering and Materials Science second-year undergraduate student Ava Dahlia Belafonte has been successful in securing the Student Enhanced Engagement and Development (SEED) Award from the Queen Mary Academy for her significant contributions as a student research assistant on the co-creational mathematics education project titled 'Making diversity … [more]

Dr Shah and his team

Dr Shah hosts workshop on threshold concepts in undergraduate mathematics teaching

31 May 2024

Dr Rehan Shah hosted a UK-wide one-day in-person workshop on Thu 30 May 2024 on identifying and recognising the implications of threshold concepts in the teaching of undergraduate mathematics as part of a Teaching and Learning Higher Education grant funded by the London Mathematical Society (LMS) and supported by the QMUL School … [more]

Andrew Spowage at the THE Asia Universities Summit in Kuala Lumpur

Dr Andrew Spowage on the strengths of the Joint Educational Institution model

16 May 2024

Dr Andrew Spowage, Director (Industry) at Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Research in Engineering and Materials Education, was recently invited to join a higher education panel discussion at the Times Higher Education’s (THE) 2024 Asia Universities Summit in Kuala Lumpur, hosted by Sunway University. Under … [more]

The QMCUR group at the BCUR dinner

Queen Mary students present at British Conference of Undergraduate Research

7 May 2024

Four student researchers from the Queen Mary Centre for Undergraduate Research (QMCUR) have presented their work at the prestigious British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Presentations by Barbaros Zeren (first-year student in Aerospace Engineering), Yash Vaghela (first-year student in Mechanical … [more]

Dr Rehan Shah

Dr Rehan Shah awarded IMA grant for focus groups to empower students through co-creation of inclusive mathematics curricula

22 April 2024

Dr Rehan Shah has been awarded a special grant by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) for organising focus groups for empowering students through the co-creation of inclusive STEM curricula for mathematics courses, in conjunction with his collaborator Dr Brigitte Stenhouse from the Open University. This forms part … [more]

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Dr Rehan Shah invited to deliver research seminar at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

9 April 2024

Dr Rehan Shah has been specially invited to deliver a research seminar to academic colleagues from the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM) at his alma mater, the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. The title of Dr Shah's seminar 'Static friction models, buckling and lift-off … [more]

King's College, Cambridge

SEMS undergraduate student awarded Vacation Scholarship with Cambridge

8 April 2024

Barbaros Zeren, a first-year undergraduate student under the supervision and mentorship of Dr Rehan Shah, has been selected to receive the QMUL-Cambridge Long Vacation Scholarship award. The scholarship provides an opportunity for eight students from across Queen Mary to attend Kings College Cambridge, and one student to attend St John&… [more]

Illustration of a small H type vertical axis wind turbine

British Council support joint wind energy research project with VIT Chennai

3 April 2024

The British Council supports a joint masters educational-research project between Queen Mary and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Chennai. The masters will research distributed wind energy for urban and rural requirements, integration and energy conversion. The project consortium also consists of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras India and … [more]

MEng project presentation prize winners

Postgraduate students present research at ILF March 2024

18 March 2024

Our MEng and MSc students presented their Research Projects at the Industrial Liaison Forum on 6th March 2024. Our MEng students conduct team projects in their fourth year in groups of four to six students. Currently towards the end of their projects, they were able to present a mix of prototypes, … [more]

EPC's Sustainability Toolkit

Dr Rehan Shah publishes article for academic educators for the EPC’s newly launched sustainability toolkit

18 March 2024

Dr Rehan Shah has published a guidance article titled 'How can sustainability be integrated in engineering modules through mathematics content?' aimed at academics and educators at all levels in higher education who wish to integrate sustainability into mathematics-specific modules within the engineering curriculum. This forms part of a suite of … [more]

Dr Richard Whiteley demonstrates the new Nano-inXider

Queen Mary scientists welcome new equipment in a major boost for materials analysis

11 March 2024

The Faculty of Science at Queen Mary University has acquired a new system allowing us to characterise advanced materials to a new level of detail. The installation of a new X-ray scattering system will enable teams from across the sciences to take these measurements in-house for the first time, instead … [more]

Diversifying the STEM curricula award-winning poster

Dr Rehan Shah and team win 'Best Innovation' Poster Award at QMUL Festival of Education

8 March 2024

Dr Rehan Shah, along with second-year undergraduate SEMS student Ms Ava Dahlia Belafonte were awarded the 'Best Innovation Prize' for their poster showcasing their scholarship research work on 'Making diversity count: empowering students to make STEM curricula more inclusive' at the QMUL Festival of Education 2024. Colleagues and festival attendees were … [more]

Enrico Gigantino and his supervisor Dr Verbruggen, and Ava Dahlia Belafonte with her supervisor Dr Rehan Shah at the participation to the Posters in Parliament event.

Centre for Undergraduate Research students present at Posters in Parliament

28 February 2024

Two talented undergraduate students engaged in research activities at the Queen Mary Centre for Undergraduate Research have presented their research findings at the prestigious Posters in Parliament event. This conference offers a platform for outstanding scholars in the UK to share their insights with a wider audience and highlights the … [more]

British Conference for Undergraduate Research

Triple success with three SEMS student projects accepted for presentation at prestigious British Conference for Undergraduate Research

16 February 2024

Three SEMS undergraduate student research projects have been accepted for presentation at the prestigious UK-wide British Conference for Undergraduate Research, being hosted by the London School of Economics (LSE). The students who will be presenting at the conference are Barbaros Zeren and Yash Vaghela, both first year students supervised by … [more]

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Dr Rehan Shah invited as keynote speaker to the University of Kent

24 January 2024

Dr Rehan Shah was specially invited to deliver a reflective teaching workshop on inclusive teaching to academic colleagues from the Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Kent. This was the second event in a series of workshops organised by the Student Success Central Team at … [more]

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SEMS students' research paper accepted for presentation at undergraduate mathematics conference

23 January 2024

Two first year SEMS undergraduate students, Mr Barbaros Zeren and Mr Yash Vaghela, supervised by Dr Rehan Shah, have had their research project paper accepted for presentation at the Institute of Mathematics' (IMA) Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today (TMT) undergraduate mathematics conference, being hosted by the University of Greenwich. Their project, … [more]

Proud to be an Engineer

Engineers Celebrate Athena Swan Success

18 January 2024

Gender equality recognised by Athena Swan Bronze Award First recognised in 2010, the School has now had this award conferred for another five years until 2029, where the conditions were met "directly and fully". The Athena Swan Charter works across the globe to support and transform gender equality in Higher … [more]

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The Scotsman newspaper publishes cautiously optimistic view by Dr Avital and the Hyperlink student team, in its article on Hyperloop technology

10 January 2024

Following the closure of the startup Hyperloop One in December 2023, The Scotsman newspaper looked at the future possibility of using Hyperloop technology to connect Edinburgh with London. While the University of Edinburgh’s team expressed optimism, other UK academics expressed pessimism, pointing to the high cost of the technology. … [more]

Dr Rehan Shah

Dr Rehan Shah awarded LMS grant for workshop on threshold concepts in undergraduate mathematics teaching

8 January 2024

Dr Rehan Shah has been awarded a Teaching and Learning in Higher Education grant by the London Mathematical Society (LMS) for organising a one-day workshop on identifying and recognising the implications of threshold concepts in the teaching of undergraduate mathematics. As part of this initiative, Dr Shah will organise an … [more]

AI Advancement Forum

Dr Rehan Shah attends AI Advancement Forum on Revolutionising Education at the Palace of Westminster, House of Lords

15 December 2023

Dr Rehan Shah was specially invited to attend the AI Advancement Forum on Revolutionising Education held at the Palace of Westminster, House of Lords. This was hosted by the University of Surrey for the launch of KEATH.ai (Key Evaluation and Assessment Tools Hub), an advanced AI technology tool that … [more]

SEMS staff recognised at the awards were from left to right: Paul, Sanaa, Wei and Irene all being congratulated by James Busfield.

SEMS Staff Recognised at the Annual Science and Engineering Faculty Celebration

13 December 2023

SEMS staff were recognised at the Annual Faculty of Science and Engineering Celebration on the 13th December 2023. Irene Prieto Reina was awarded the Professional Services Excellence Award. Wei Tan was awarded the Research Excellence Award. Sanaa Hafeez was awarded the Student Experience and Education Award. Paul Balcombe was awarded the … [more]

Shafique Ahmed and Haixue Yan being presented with the Pfeil Award by the IOM3 president Kate Thornton

Shafique Ahmed and Haixue Yan Presented with the Pfeil Award by the IOM3

7 December 2023

Congratulations to Shafique Ahmed and Haixue Yan and their co-authors: Chunxiao Song, Jiyue Wu & Bo Li on their research paper, "Temperature dependence in ageing process in commercial zirconia dental ceramics" which has received the esteemed IOM3 Pfeil Awardfrom the IOM3. The research sheds light on the behaviour … [more]

Staff present to receive their awards included in the front row from left to right: Mouna, Henri, Irene, Neil, Maria, Ji & Angela. At the back on camera: Saqib and Faith.

SEMS Annual Awards Announced

6 December 2023

At the end of the staff meeting on the 6th December 2023, we hosted our annual SEMS prize celebration. We had a large number of nominations this year and the awards were spread across the entire SEMS community. The Team of the Year for 2023 was the Teaching Fellow / Teaching Associate Team … [more]

Many colleagues from SEMS attended the celebration including Olly Fenwick, Thomas Iskratsch, Karin Hing and Wei Tan being congratulated in the photo by Martin, Wen and James.

SEMS team recognised at QMUL Academic Promotions Event

21 November 2023

On 21st November QMUL hosted an event to celebrate the staff who have been promoted in the most recent academic promotion rounds. As we reported back in September, this was a very successful outcome for SEMS with 12 of our colleagues being promoted across all the different academic grades, reflecting the … [more]

Dr. Rehan Shah

Dr Rehan Shah awarded QMUL Centre for Public Engagement grant for project on university-community partnerships

8 November 2023

Dr Rehan Shah has been awarded a Community Engagement grant by the QMUL Centre for Public Engagement (CPE) for a project titled 'Locating communities in community-based learning: empowering local community groups in university-community partnerships' in collaboration with Dr. David Geiringer from the School of History at QMUL. As part of … [more]

The SEMS Research Showcase at the Industrial Liaison Forum

SEMS Industrial Liaison Forum, November 2023

8 November 2023

We were pleased to once again hold the bi-annual Industrial Liaison Forum live in-person at Queen Mary University of London on 8th November 2023 in the People's Palace. The event was well attended by staff and students as well as industrialists. The day was broken up into five parts, starting … [more]

Dr Rehan Shah

Collaboration with UCL results in publication in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

19 October 2023

A collaboration led by Dr Rehan Shah in conjunction with UCL academic Prof Gert van der Heijden has resulted in a publication in the reputed Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (JMPS) and is available as an open access paper on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105464 In this … [more]

Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE)

Dr Rehan Shah awarded ALDinHE education grant for collaborative project with UCL

9 October 2023

Dr Rehan Shah has been awarded an Education Research Grant by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) to work on a research project titled 'Promoting equity in education for sustainable development through community-based learning and teaching: A case study of two collaborating universities' with a team comprising … [more]

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Dr Rehan Shah appointed as Co-Chair of the Ethics Ambassadors Committee for the Engineering Professors Council

19 September 2023

Dr Rehan Shah has been elected to serve as the Co-Chair of the Ethics Ambassadors Committee for the Engineering Professors Council (EPC). The purpose of the committee is to ensure that the Engineering Ethics Toolkit recently published by the EPC remains a high quality and dynamic resource that can feature … [more]

QMUL SEED Award

SEMS student wins QMUL SEED award for education research on Dr Rehan Shah's project, "Community-based placements in engineering education"

12 September 2023

QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science PhD student Ms Sujitha Kunalan has been successful in securing the Student Enhanced Engagement and Development (SEED) Award from the Queen Mary Academy for her significant contributions as a student research assistant on the co-creational engineering education project titled “Community-based placements in … [more]

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys
CBE, FREng, FRS, BSc, MA, PhD, Hon DSc, FIMMM, FInstP, FCGI, Hon FRMS

Sir Colin Humphreys appears on BBC Radio 4's "The Life Scientific"

29 August 2023

On Tuesday 29th August Professor Sir Colin Humphreys was Professor Jim Al-Khalili's guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme "The Life Scientific". Colin discussed his work as a materials scientist and engineer, his use of electron microscopy and of course about his work on graphene, the world's … [more]

Hyperlink students presenting in the European Hyperloop Week

Student team makes an impact at European Hyperloop Week

31 July 2023

A group of students from the Hyperlink London society, most of whom study Engineering and Materials Science programmes at Queen Mary, recently showcased their work at European Hyperloop Week. European Hyperloop Week is a yearly international event dedicated to the Hyperloop - a futuristic transportation concept which combines elements of … [more]

Dr Giuseppe Viola

Dr Giuseppe Viola awarded the President and Principal’s Fund for Educational Excellence

25 July 2023

Dr Viola has been funded to further support our Undergraduate Research Project Activities through a new Queen Mary Centre for Undergraduate Research (QMCUR). This will be carried out in collaboration with a dedicated team of undergraduate students who will take on the role of "co-creators" under the supervision … [more]

UCL Engineering

Dr Rehan Shah awarded a follow-on renewal of collaborative Engineering Education Research Grant with UCL

7 July 2023

Dr Rehan Shah has been awarded a follow-on renewal collaborative Engineering Education Research Grant through UCL's Centre for Engineering Education to continue working on the cross-institutional interdisciplinary project on community-based placements in engineering education with a team comprising colleagues from UCL including academics from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, … [more]

Celebrating International Women In Engineering Day

Celebrating the Inspiring Women Engineers at QMUL

23 June 2023

On International Women in Engineering Day on 23 June 2023, we celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of Women In Engineering worldwide, who tirelessly contribute to improving and saving lives. This year, we turn our attention to the exceptional female engineers at the School of Engineering and Materials Science. These women embody the qualities … [more]

Engineering Professors Council

Dr Rehan Shah awarded a fully funded place to attend the Engineering Professors Council (EPC) Academics Network Annual Congress 2023

5 June 2023

Dr Rehan Shah has been awarded 1 of 5 fully funded sponsored places for early career academics to attend the Engineering Professors Council (EPC) Academics Network Annual Congress taking place in Hereford, UK from 12-14 June 2023. Dr Shah will represent QMUL to attend this year's annual congress event focusing on 'New … [more]

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Success in Faculty of Science and Engineering's BAME Undergraduate Research Internships

24 May 2023

The School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) has been successful in securing a BAME undergraduate research studentship for a summer internship research project to be undertaken by first year BEng Mechanical Engineering student Mr Ismail Moalin, under the joint supervision of Dr Rehan Shah and Prof Henri Huijberts from … [more]

Themes for expectations and values linked to understandings of community-based learning and teaching

Collaboration with UCL results in a publication in the London Review of Education

17 May 2023

A collaboration led by Dr Rehan Shah in conjunction with UCL academic Dr Anne Preston has resulted in a publication in the London Review of Education, an open-access journal publishing rigorous, theoretically based research into contemporary education. Community-based learning and teaching in higher education, and other versions of it, such … [more]

The full-scale James Webb Space Telescope model at South by Southwest in Austin

Engineering the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - the largest optical telescope in space

17 April 2023

In a seminar at Queen Mary, NASA’s Dr Raymond Ohl explained what makes the JWST’s architecture so unique. Dr Ohl has worked on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project at the Goddard Space Flight Center in various roles for about 20 years. He was invited by … [more]

The team representatives wining the award

Hyperlink team wins Bright Network award

9 March 2023

The Hyperlink student team wins the Innovation Award by Bright Network for their innovative solutions of developing a hyperloop transport technology. The student team is based at the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London and has student members from other schools as the School … [more]

Helical rod with relaxed boundary conditions under compression

Collaboration with UCL results in a publication in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

4 February 2023

A collaboration led by Dr Rehan Shah in conjunction with UCL academic Prof Gert van der Heijden has resulted in a publication in the reputed Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (JMPS) and is available as an open access paper on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105224. In … [more]

UCL Engineering

Dr Rehan Shah awarded a collaborative Engineering Education Research Grant with UCL

30 January 2023

Dr Rehan Shah has been awarded a collaborative Engineering Education Research Grant through UCL's Centre for Engineering Education to work on a cross-institutional interdisciplinary project with a team comprising colleagues from UCL including academics from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Institute of Education, UCL East and professional services staff … [more]

A group of PhD student and staff celebrating in the Octagon after the graduation ceremony

SEMS' Winter Graduation

6 January 2023

The winter graduation ceremony returned to the Great Hall on the Mile End campus once again 2023. The venue was filled with a cast of hundreds of SEMS graduates and their families and friends. The largest cohort was made up our MSc students from last year, but there was a good … [more]

Visitors from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

SEMS hosts visit from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

28 November 2022

SEMS hosted a visit from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) on Monday 28th November. They were lead by the Assistant Cultural Attaché from the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and by Professor AlKharoubi, KFUPM. The group were a total of 24 students and staff from … [more]

Research showcase

SEMS November Industrial Liaison Forum including PhD Research Showcase and and Student Awards

9 November 2022

We were pleased to once again hold the bi-annual Industrial Liaison Forum live in-person at Queen Mary University of London on 9th November 2022 in the Octagon. The event was well attended by staff and students as well as industrialists. The day was broken up into five parts, starting in the … [more]

Prize winners

November Prize-giving for SEMS' Taught Students

9 November 2022

At the Industrial Liaison Forum on 9th November 2022, we celebrated the achievements of some of our best taught students. Over 20 prizes were awarded by the School. These were awarded across subject and year groups and included "Academic Achievement Prizes as well as "Best Project Prizes". One "… [more]

Who do you see in this picture?

Picture an Engineer

13 June 2022

When you see an engineer, what does the picture mean to you? International photographer Michael Cockerham and the Ideas Foundation created a digital storytelling workshop at Queen Mary's Festival of Communities to help engineers see each other's worlds. The creative & culture teams built a digital arts studio … [more]