Under the direction of “Bala” Balachandar, UF’s Institute for Computational Engineering will contribute to the multidisciplinary university research initiative.
Bridges could soon be inspected by aerial drones
UF Engineering faculty and NSF CAREER awardee Jennifer Rice is exploring best practices with emerging technologies.
Aerospace graduate student to attend meeting with Nobel Laureates
An aerospace graduate student from the University of Florida has been selected to participate in the 66th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Sahadeo Ramjatan, who studies thermal sciences and fluid dynamics, will travel to Germany at the end of June for the event. Once a year, 30–40 Nobel Laureates convene in Lindau and meet with the top 400 scholars and …
Building trust: engineering stronger human-robot relationships
In a recent editorial, UF robotics expert Riccardo Bevilacqua explores the role of human dependence in autonomous systems.
Three Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering faculty among those named UF Research Foundation professors
David P. Arnold, ECE, Benjamin J. Fregly, MAE, and My T. Thai, CISE, were named UF Research Foundation Professors for 2016-2019.
White House Assistant Director for Open Innovation honored as UF Outstanding Young Alumna
Jenn Gustetic (MAE ’05) has played a key role in fostering innovation at NASA and the White House
Gatorloop team makes it to Hyperloop finals
UF was selected to build a prototype for a high speed transportation concept proposed by SpaceX & Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
3-D printing soft matter: UF discovery leads to new engineering discipline
Objects printed in the lab so far are orders of magnitude softer than any man-made object.
Engineering a stadium solution
Engineering and athletics team up for a better fan experience.
Get to Know Chelsey Simmons
Home is where the heart is for this Florida-born Ivy-Leaguer. After growing up in the Gainesville area, Chelsey Simmons ventured out to Harvard for her undergraduate degree, followed by a master’s and PhD from Stanford. But when it came time to find a tenure-track position at a top research university – with a mechanical engineering department within walking distance of a medical …