Category: Engineering Education

ISE senior Corey Reynolds balances his passion for basketball with the precision of engineering as a student manager for the national champion Gators. From logistics to leadership, he’s learning what it takes to support a winning program on and off the court.

The Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, University of Florida’s engineering honor society, was awarded the 2025 R.C. Matthews Outstanding Chapter Award this month at the Tau Beta Pi national convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  

Shubham Ravan, a first-year master’s student in chemical engineering, specializes in semiconductor fabrication and scaling processes from lab to commercial applications. He recently received the department’s MS Research, Leadership and Service Excellence Award and serves as the graduate cohort representative. Outside the lab, he stays active with badminton and table tennis and enjoys reading science fiction and biographies.

In a field often defined by precision and data, Allison Probert found her most meaningful discovery outside the lab.

Originally from North Carolina, she came to the University of Florida in 2022 to pursue her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering. She quickly found not only world-class research opportunities but a community that supported and inspired her.

The University of Florida’s Ceramic Mug Drop (CMD) design team made history in September by setting a new university UF record for the highest drop at the Materials Science & Technology Technical Meeting and Exhibition in Columbus, Ohio.  Competing for the first time, the CMD team, part of the UF Material Advantage chapter, showcased innovation, […]

Ivanna Milian’s family nurtured her path as a first-generation college student from her first days in elementary school.

Hassan Tanvir came to the University of Florida to pursue a Ph.D. in engineering education with a background unlike many in the department.

Built in 1959 and operating out of the Nuclear Engineering program in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the UF training reactor is one of fewer than 30 reactors still operating in the United States. The college uses the reactor to train students in nuclear science and reactor operations, and in lab courses.

With a background deeply rooted in engineering, Taofeek Tejuosho is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in chemical engineering working to accelerate the design and development of polymer materials for diverse technological applications.

Nuclear engineering doctoral candidate Enrique Medici was one of five selected college students this summer to attend the prestigious U.S. Air Force’s SMART Scholar Program.   The annual program awards full-tuition, merit-based scholarships to hundreds of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral candidates who are pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and math. The program ran on June […]