Category: Engineering Education

In three decades, STEPUP (Successful Transition and Enhanced Preparation for Undergraduates Program) has helped set up more than 800 engineering alumni for college success.

Athletes Mollie Brewer and Kevin Childs are UF Ph.D. engineering students and key players in the $2.5-million UF & Sport Collaborative initiative.

Childs grew up in Southern California. As a kid, one thing was certain: He wanted to swim.  “I thought I was going to stay in California,” he recalled. “Then I had a really good swim meet and that opened up an entire country worth of pools. I talked to a coach at North Carolina State […]

Brewer’s cycling career started at age 15 in North Carolina with a triathlon – or rather, holding water for triathletes when her soccer team volunteered at a water station. So inspired, she started training for triathlons but quickly learned cycling was her favorite.  She raced at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then […]

Among UF’s 13 study-abroad programs, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering now has the third highest number of participating students.

On Saturday in Provo, Utah, the University of Florida’s concrete canoe team claimed its fourth national title at the ASCE Student Engineering Championships.

The team of 12 students will compete this month in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Engineering Championships at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

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 […]

The University of Florida has entered into an Education Partnership Agreement with the National Security Agency in efforts to enhance STEM education through technical exchanges and the sharing of educational materials and equipment.

Ten students from the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering were selected to receive awards from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for their exemplary work and contributions to their departments. The NSF GRFP recognizes outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) […]