Category: Honors & Awards

Originally published May 7, 2013 on UF’s Spotlights webpage. Fatmata Barrie, a graduate student in materials science and engineering, will use a Fulbright grant to see how bamboo might strengthen concrete structures against earthquakes. Barrie is UF’s first Fulbright Scholar of the year. Barrie was also featured on GTN News.

Dr. Carlos Rinaldi, professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been selected to receive the International Journal of Nanomedicine Early Career Scientist Award. This annual award is presented to a scientist in the early stage of his/her career (less than 10 years after receiving a Ph.D.) who has made […]

Since 2010, the Cade Museum Foundation held an annual competition to encourage Florida’s burgeoning inventors and entrepreneurs. This year, two products that originated in Gator Engineering research laboratories have made their way to the Final Four: Green Liquid & Gas Technologies The Green Pyrolyzer Gasifier (GPG) is a self-fueled oven system that generates energy by […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. –- College of Engineering graduates William L. “Trey” Lauderdale, III, and Agapitus “Augi” Lye were recipients of the University of Florida’s Outstanding Young Alumni Awards on Saturday at Emerson Alumni Hall. The Outstanding Young Alumni Award, established by UF’s Alumni Association, recognizes alumni ages 35 or younger who have distinguished themselves in their […]

Industrial and Systems Engineering undergraduate student, Michelle Gauthreaux, was selected as the winner of the $5,000 scholarship awarded by The Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers/American Council of Engineering Companies of Florida (FICE/ACEC of Florida). Since 2004, FICE/ACEC of Florida scholarships honor Florida college students expressing interest and commitment to the business and management of the […]

Congratulations to the two outstanding engineering students who won the Presidential Service Award: Akua Oppong-Anane, a PhD candidate in the department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, volunteered over 60 hours of her time to help library patrons strengthen their computer skills and literacy. As a science fair judge at a local middle school, she also mentored […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four UF College of Engineering faculty members have been inducted as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers because of their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. They are: Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering […]

Two College of Engineering faculty, UF Vice President of Research and MSE professor David Norton and Rolf E. Hummel professor of electronic materials and MSE associate chair of research Franky So, were chosen as Charter Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four researchers at the University of Florida have been chosen […]

Congratulations to UF NSBE, SASE, SHPE, SWE and Tau Beta Pi – Florida Alpha! At Gator Engineering, diversity, inclusion and multiplicity is not just a way of thinking and working, it is also part of our DNA. We fully support and commend all efforts on the parts of our students in leading the way to […]

Three of the 5 newly honored Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from the University of Florida are Gator Engineers.  Dr. Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, associate dean of research and distinguished professor in the department of chemical engineering, was named fellow for seminal contributions to the understanding of particle flow and […]