GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center will play a leading role in researching the next generation of “smart” electronics funded by a National Science Foundation program that combines federal money with industry investments in strategic research. As a designated Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, the MIST Center will receive over $880,000 from the NSF and upwards …
Mindtree chairman and spouse give $1 million to College of Engineering
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Engineering’s future Innovation Nexus Building will add to its list of distinguished underwriters Subroto and Susmita Bagchi, who have announced a $1 million gift to UF. Their gift will be used to support the Engineering Innovation Nexus Building, a new facility to be located at the heart of UF, directly across …
Condolences for Gator Engineering graduate student
Engineering students, faculty and staff are mourning the loss of one of our newest graduate students. Krishnendu “Krish” Saha came to UF from India this fall to study electrical and computer engineering. His accidental death last Saturday at his apartment complex leaves us with a great sense of loss – he was just starting out at UF but he had …
Engineering researcher develops biodegradable implants
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ask anyone who has a surgical pin in their body, and they likely will tell you they wish it would just go away. In the future, it just might, with help from research by Michele Manuel, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Florida. Manuel has developed a surgical pin made from …
Trash to ash to roads, Gator Engineers recycle
“Right now, in Florida and in the United States, waste-to-energy ash is not recycled in any fashion. What is needed is demonstrations like this to provide the data, the information, and the assurance to all communities who are interested in this that this is indeed a viable and safe practice.” — Timothy Townshend, professor, UF’s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure …
UF’s longest-serving faculty member remembered
Dr. Seymour S. Block passed away on August 11th, 2014 at the age of 96. A dynamic innovator, he was the university’s longest-serving faculty member. He will be dearly missed at the college and by his many former students and colleagues. Dr. Block came to the University of Florida in 1944 when – due to World War II – the enrollment …
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 …
Wesley Bolch named interim associate dean as Mark Law steps down to lead UF honors program
Special Announcement from the Dean: Dear Colleagues, As many of you have heard, Dr. Mark Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, has accepted a position as Director of the UF Honors Program, effective Aug. 16, 2014. This is a wonderful opportunity for Mark and for the UF Honors program. Mark has been involved in Honors both as a student, and …