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Award-winning UF engineers take on ‘transfer shock’

September 9, 2025

Thanks to a grant and a national best-paper award, Engineering Education professor Sindia M. Rivera-Jimenez, Ph.D., will dig deeper into the challenges faced by engineering transfer students during a three-year research project.

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A UF Rising Star, ECE’s Silva wins more teaching awards

June 23, 2025

Catia Silva, Ph.D., won the 2025 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award, as well as the 2025 UF Rising Star Award

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Curiosity set a path to artificial intelligence in the real world – and Gator Nation

April 17, 2025

A proud resident of Gator Nation, Anany Sharma is part of the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) master’s degree program in the Department of Engineering Education (EEd) in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

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With an eye on the ocean, this EEd student is making waves in new AIS program

April 16, 2025

University of Florida graduate student Douglas Ta grew up in Central Florida with sports at the center of his youth. He played soccer and tennis and contends his time on those teams sharpened a competitive drive that serves him well as a Gator engineering student.

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Heralded researcher Villanueva Alarcón named new EEd chair

March 5, 2025

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., an associate professor, popular mentor and groundbreaking researcher at the University of Florida, has been named the new chair of the Department of Engineering Education at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

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Bringing industry into the classroom

February 4, 2025

UF’s IPPD celebrates 30 years of solving problems with products.

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UF engineering researchers lead collaboration to improve student experience through AI

November 20, 2023

Researchers at the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering have received a strategic funding award for a project called Leveraging the Power of Large Language Models.

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Engineering Education receives gift to fund professorships

April 5, 2023

Thomas O. Hunter, Ph.D. (BS ME ’66) recently made an investment in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s Department of Engineering Education by establishing the Thomas O. Hunter Professorship, with Jeremy A. M. Waisome, Ph.D. and Amie Baisley, Ph.D. as recipients.

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Celebrating Women’s History Month: How a UF alumna turned faculty is making a difference

March 2, 2023

For Department of Engineering Education Assistant Professor Jeremy Waisome, Ph.D., mentorship helped her pull through her graduate school journey.

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How Members of the UF Community Represent the Core Values

August 30, 2022

Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education, says, “My journey at UF could be summarized by community.”

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