Category: Students

Over the summer, the inaugural cohort of the Ph.D. Research and Interdisciplinary Mentoring Experience, known as PRIME, celebrated its graduation.

Each summer, Sanethia Thomas, Ph.D., brings UF students to South Africa to create tech solutions for community problems. 

Applying advanced AI to agriculture requires solving some of the most complex computing challenges in existence — challenges that directly impact how technology interacts with the real world.

UF’s Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering is home to two national champion design teams: Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge.

Thomas Corbin first fell for the Gator Nation when he was a visiting chemical engineering undergraduate from North Carolina State. He declared UF was where he wanted to be, and he returned to pursue his doctoral studies.

One of my earliest memories is looking at the moon as a child in Nairobi, Kenya, and wondering, “Why is the moon following me?”

“Do you want to build a rocket engine?” Those are the words that started this journey 2.5 years ago in the middle of Turlington Plaza at UF. At the time, there was no engine or test stand; they were both concept sketches, clean-sheet designs, CAD models and Excel spreadsheets. Even as freshmen, we knew the […]

The UF Institute of Transportation Engineers, or ITE, student chapter won the Florida Puerto Rico District ITE Traffic Bowl competition once again, marking an exciting eight-year winning streak that speaks to the quality of its students and transportation program. “It feels so surreal to stand on the shoulders of our other traffic bowl members who […]

With rockets, Solar Cars, blades and Bots, student design teams are among UF’s champs Last year, some of engineering’s biggest champions included Reptilia, Flare and Steggy. This year, Gator Fang is poised to slice up competitors in another round of competitions among University of Florida student engineers. Many competitive student design teams call the Herbert […]

In an occasion marked by snacks, happy tears and pride, engineering faculty members in May celebrated the first graduates to earn the University of Florida’s new master’s degrees in artificial intelligence systems and applied data science.  Thirty-one students graduated with their master’s in Applied Data Science (MSADS), and 24 graduated with UF’s first AI Systems (MSAIS) master’s degrees. The new degrees are the latest steps to position UF as a […]