Fridays are meant to be a day I set aside for research, and indeed I did write two lines of code this morning. But more important events got in the ways. First, Edison my last PhD student as principal supervisor had his viva today. He passed with flying colours (or with minor corrections as we say). So well done to him.
This afternoon was our Faculty Forum, where staff from across the Faculty congregate to listen to a few short presentations and ask questions. On this occasion I spoke about the Faculty's plans and ambitions for the next five years, Elena Rodriguez-Falcon reported on her first impressions as the new Faculty Director for Women in Engineering and Malcolm Butler reported on our ever-increasing building plans. Readers within the University cans find the slides of the presentations on the Faculty Website (I'll put the link in when I find it!).
One of the things I spoke about was our latest Big Splash staff recruitment activity - 24 academic posts were advertised today, with further support-staff posts to be advertised in the next few weeks. You can read about those here:
www.shef.ac.uk/faculty/engineering/recruitment
A fine way to end the week.
