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Steel Bridge completes historic four-peat at Nationals

In Engineering Education, Featured, NewsBy Reba LiddyStory originally published on ESSIE News

The University of Florida’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge team has made history. For the fourth year in a row, the team has won at the American Institute of Steel Construction’s 2024 Student Steel Bridge Competition National Finals.  No other team has won national championships for three consecutive years, let alone four. The UF team claimed its latest championship earlier this month …

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Don’t squash those pantry pests…they may help save your life one day

In Department of Chemical Engineering, News, Research & InnovationBy Ada LangStory originally published on Department of Chemical Engineering news

When Dr. Whitney Stoppel isn’t working as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, she loves spending her free time outdoors and tending to her garden. During these moments, she reflects on the intriguing connections between healthcare, medicine, and the natural world, particularly plants and insects. As a result, she has studied the silk materials that come from …

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Eight UF engineering faculty honored with prestigious NSF CAREER Awards 

In Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Featured, Honors & Awards, In the Headlines, J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, News

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering proudly announces that eight of our faculty members have been honored with the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Awards.

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Dynamic Doppelganger: Developing Florida’s Digital Twin

In ICYMI, In the Headlines, News, President's Initiative, Research & InnovationBy Giovanni SantanaStory originally published on UF News

Imagine a virtual Jacksonville, viewable through an augmented reality headset, that shows the intricate aspects of the city in 3D. This is the future of sustainable urban planning, and the University of Florida is leading a project that will leverage artificial intelligence and digital twin technologies to make it happen.