The UF chapters of the national organizations Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) both received awards for their outstanding performance this year. SWE’s mission is to be the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE-UF won three chapter awards this year: the 2014 Outstanding Collegiate Section Award, Silver Level; …
Engineering students design robot games for children’s hospital
Freshman engineering students recently demonstrated their soccer-playing robots to patients at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital.
SubjuGator and PropaGator teams place 2nd in international competitions
Two teams from UF’s Machine Intelligence Lab have each won $5,000 and taken second place in their respective international competitions this month. SubjuGator, UF’s autonomous submarine, and PropaGator, UF’s autonomous surface boat, traveled cross-country with faculty and students in tow for annual competitions hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). The 17th International RoboSub Competition was held …
Engineering students create art as part of “Moving Water” project
Roughly 100 students from the art and engineering departments at UF met Wednesday to participate in a ritualistic performance dedicating the newly installed art piece “Moving Water.” Gathering on the Plaza of the Americas, nearly every participant grasped a vessel filled with water. Each individual had collected the water from a location of personal significance. Jesenia Lopez, a 21-year-old UF …
Guess which college has the most Brazilian exchange students?
As Brazil hosts the World Cup, Florida and its flagship university maintain long established and strong ties to South America’s largest country. Brazil is now the largest export trading partner the state has ever had, and UF is the primary destination for Brazilian students who want to keep it that way. To globalize its workforce, the Brazilian government created the …
Gator Engineering grad students build unmanned aircraft to survey wildlife
Working across disciplines with wildlife biologists at UF, graduate students in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering have developed a 14-pound aircraft with a high-resolution digital camera that can photograph and help document nests without disturbing bird populations. Read more about this and other specialty projects that the MAE department faculty and students have collaborated on in the Gainesville …
Engineering team claims $25,000 in UF Big Idea Business Plan Competition
Published: April 29th, 2014 GAINESVILLE, Fla. —Three engineering students whose company developed a portable water purification device that uses ultraviolet light to sterilize water were awarded $25,000 for winning the UF Big Idea Business Plan Competition on Friday. Daniel Blood, Rob Damitz and Erica Gonzaga, co-founders of aqUV, outlasted a field of 140 entrants to claim the grand prize. The …
Congratulations Gator Engineering Class of 2014!
The Class of 2014 had a personalized commencement experience, unprecedented in college history. Their speaker, Subroto Bagchi, co-founder and chairman of Mindtree, created an interactive address, based on feedback he solicited from students earlier this year. Following Mr. Bagchi’s commencement speech, both the female and male student speakers – chosen to represent the student body – addressed the class. Click …
Biomedical Engineering Graduates Its First Undergraduate Class
The College of Engineering is making history this May as it graduates its first class of undergraduate students from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. Generous gifts from the Pruitt family helped to grow a thriving biomedical engineering (BME) department on the UF campus over the course of a decade. Then in 2012, after several years of …
Baby Gator class concludes engineering is cool after UF students visit
The University of Florida’s American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Engineering Ambassadors (EA) partnered with Baby Gator Child Development Center this week to inspire the next generation of Gator Engineers. With the guidance of AIAA and EA, forty 4-to-5-year-olds enrolled at the Lake Alice campus participated in hands-on experiments –including egg drops, slime observation and model rocket launches …