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‘A well rounded life’: Meet the engineers in the bell tower

April 21, 2025

Twice every school day, student musicians climb 194 stairs to perform mini-concerts on the carillon atop UF’s iconic Century Tower. Here are the engineering students for the Carillon Studio’s Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters.

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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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The UF computer engineering program climbed in the USNWR rankings to No. 19 from No. 24.

UF engineering graduate programs climb in U.S. News & World Report rankings

April 8, 2025

Four departments in the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering made significant gains in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings among graduate engineering programs, according to figures recently released. 

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UF civil engineering teams dominate in Georgia

March 17, 2025

Championships keep rolling in for University of Florida ASCE chapters, as student teams won first place overall earlier this month at the ASCE Southeast Student Symposium in Athens, Ga. “UF took first out of 19 universities,” noted ASCE student chapter advisor Mark Newman, Ph.D. “Our students also made more history as the first university in […]

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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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From the EPA to ‘GNX,’ meet Alexis ‘AJ’ Jackson

February 13, 2025

Born and raised in Richmond, Va., Jackson graduated from Virginia Tech in 2020 with a degree in Biological Sciences.

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Showcasing a summer in the city

February 7, 2025

Inspired by the art and architecture of France, University of Florida engineering students showcased their artistic sides last week during downtown Gainesville’s Artwalk.

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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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Superstar UF iGEM Team Wins Gold in Paris with Biomanufactured Organoid Models

February 3, 2025

The UF Chapter of iGEM dazzled 2024 Grand Jamboree judges, earning a gold medal for their research into sepsis, a life-threatening condition that results from the body’s dysregulated response to infection.

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