Historic building consultants Orsi and Associates were looking into the possibility of using Roman cements in plaster and render mortars for both conservation and new build applications

Sheffield Hallam University is now offering a full time undergraduate BEng (Hons) in Materials Engineering. The course is running in its first year and has proved very popular with ten students currently enrolled and more interested for next academic year

Robotics experts from Sheffield Hallam University have been working with firefighters from South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue to showcase a unique group of firefighting robots

MERI's annual Research Symposium was held on 19th/20th May in the Cantor Building. The event was a great success and was attended by staff, students and external guests.

Thermal conductivity ('k value') is a property of a material that determines how much heat is conducted through it for a given temperature difference

Sheffield Hallam University is pleased to announce that the National HIPIMS Technology Centre-UK at the Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) in partnership with Ionbond UK Ltd, has won a 12-month collaborative research project supported by Innovate UK, to help develop and implement new and innovative technology to enhance quality assurance capabilities in industrial production processes.

Sheffield Hallam University is pleased to announce that, in partnership with TWI (formerly The Welding Institute) and Ionbond UK Ltd, it has won a collaborative research project supported by Innovative UK to developer coatings for friction stir welding (FSW) tools.

MERI currently has two fully funded PhD project available for applicants to start in May 2019.

Centre for Automation and Robotics Research celebrates their 10 year anniversary.