Category: Honors & Awards

Record-setting UF Steel Bridge team claims another national title
June 3, 2025The Eckhoff Steel Bridge Team has captured its fifth consecutive national title. The championship marks the UF team’s seventh first-place win since 1997, the most wins by a single team in the competition’s 33-year history.
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Eight UF engineering students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
May 20, 2025This year’s National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) program only awarded 1,000 grants, nearly half as many as in the past, and yet eight University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering students were selected to receive awards for their exemplary work and contributions to their departments.
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Four college faculty are named UF Research Foundation professors
May 12, 2025The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 35 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2025.
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Gator engineers honored in 2025 Gator100
May 1, 2025Join us in congratulating the outstanding alumni from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering for earning their place among the 2025 Gator100 — the world’s fastest-growing Gator-led businesses.
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The essence of a Gator engineer: WGI co-founder named UF Distinguished Alumnus
April 30, 2025David Wantman, co-founder of a successful South Florida-based consulting, planning, surveying and design firm and 1990 UF engineering graduate, has been selected as a Distinguished Alumnus from the University of Florida.
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2024-2025 awards for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
April 23, 2025The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering presents its annual awards to faculty, staff, and students for the 2024-2025 academic year on April 23, 2025. These awards celebrate the excellence and fundamental values of our college.
Read more »Meet UF Engineering’s 2025 Hall of Fame inductees
April 9, 2025Four of the 25 students recently inducted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame are engineering majors from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.
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Engineering alumni honored in 2025 “40 Gators Under 40” awards
March 24, 2025Four exceptional Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering alumni have been honored with the University of Florida’s “40 Gators Under 40” awards.
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UF civil engineering teams dominate in Georgia
March 17, 2025Championships 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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University of Florida 2025 faculty and staff service awards
March 6, 2025Congratulations to the faculty and staff service awardees for 2025!
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