Category: Student Spotlight

UF’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) chapter was selected as one of six Gold Chapters of the Year by the national organization.

Two winners of UF’s International Student Achievement Awards are from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering: Ph.D. student Karthik Boregowda from India and Industrial and Systems Engineering senior Yousef Bani Ahmad from Jordan.

Advisors:  Melony Goldsmith, Regan Garner and Iris Rivero, Ph.D. An Industrial and Systems Engineering major, Ahmad grew up in Amman, Jordan, and later studied at the United World College (UWC) in Japan.  How did you find your way to UF?   After my time at UWC, I wanted to continue my education in an environment that values […]

Nominator/Adviser: Michael Annable, Ph.D., and Edward Latorre. Ph.D. Boregowda grew up in Karnataka, India, and moved to Arkansas to pursue his education. He mentors undergrad students at UF Integrated Product & Process Design, an experiential education program that develops engineering products for industrial and research sponsors. He volunteers with the Gainesville Community Weatherization Coalition as […]

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 […]

ME Capstone students are collaborating with Dr. Antonio Faciola, an associate professor of animal sciences at UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), to redesign legacy cow digestion simulators pivotal for ruminant nutrition research. This interdisciplinary partnership leverages the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department’s EML4502 course, taught by senior lecturer Dr. Matthew J. Traum.

Divya Vellanki, a master’s student in computer science, came to UF from Andhra Pradesh, India and hit the ground running. Self-determined and ambitious, Divya dives into every opportunity available to her to enrich her college experience, determined to push herself out of her comfort zone and make a big impact in every endeavor she undertakes. […]

The UF in Lille: Engineering and Arts Study Abroad Program, established in 2021, provides engineering students an opportunity to earn critical course credits while also taking in the culture, architecture, and history of northern France.