University of Sheffield kits out £81m engineering lab

The University of Sheffield is creating a new engineering teaching lab as part of the university’s new £81m Diamond building.

University of Sheffield - new Faculty of Engineering development

The new laboratory holds 80 test benches and it is expected that as many as 3,000 students each year will use the new laboratory in their electronic engineering studies.

“The Diamond offers the best interdisciplinary engineering teaching space in the country and part of that is due to the excellent facilities and equipment on offer,” said professor Stephen Beck, University of Sheffield’s Electronic Engineering Teaching Lab.

As part of the engineering laboratory, Keysight Technologies is supplying test equipment through Aspen Electronics its Harrow-based distributor.

The equipment includes MSOX2012A oscilloscopes, U8031A 30V/6A DC power suppliers, 34450A 5.5 digit multimeter and 33511B 20MHz arbitrary signal generators.

Final-year students will also be given access to specialised RF and semiconductor test equipment, such as the N991XA FieldFox combination network spectrum analyser, E4980AL precision LCR meter and B2902A dual-channel source measure units.

Graham Newton, UK sales manager, Keysight Technologies said: “University of Sheffield has a world-class reputation and it is a real privilege to be able to support this new teaching lab and all of the future engineers.”

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield is one of the largest in the UK with 5,000 students, 950 staff and £65m annual research-related income from government, industry and charity.

The Faculty has a long tradition of working with industry including Rolls-Royce, Network Rail and Siemens. It has also created the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing and the £25m Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (NAMRC).