Category: Research & Innovation

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, in collaboration with several other colleges, is piloting a project that could serve as a model for collecting and analyzing data from real-time monitoring of coastlines globally using the living laboratory of Florida’s own 8,436 miles of coastline. Using advanced sensors, including new technology in development at UF, the […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering receives more funding from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases’ than any other biomedical engineering department nationally.

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida and The Ohio State University College of Engineering are collaborating as a close-knit team in two Centers of Excellence sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Nimbis Inc., a developer of collaborative cloud communities. Their dual goals are to advance the area of hardware-enabled cybersecurity through innovation and development of new Analog and Mixed Signal (AMS) domain security and to provide a comprehensive workforce training and education program in areas related to microelectronics design and security.

Recently published paper confirming that basic principles of engineering apply to micro-beam mechanics provides solid foundation for new research.

Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) associate Professor Maitane Olabarrieta, Ph.D., was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).  The PECASE award is described as the highest honor given by the U.S. Government to exceptional new scientists and engineers who contribute to the advancement of the STEM fields through […]

The University Term Professorship was established in 2016 and is presented to 250 eligible faculty members annually. Selection of University Term Professorships is based on an assessment of academic accomplishment by either a faculty advisory committee and/or the department chair and approved by the dean. Each award runs for 3 years and provides a $5,000/year salary supplement to the awardee.

This article was written by Zack Savitsky and originally published on the University of Florida News. CISE professor Benjamin Lok has grants from the National Institute of Health and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to study the applications of Virtual humans. Humans are social creatures, but some things are just hard to talk about. […]

We keep falling for phishing emails, and Google just revealed why This article is written by Rob Pegoraro and originally published on Fast Company. Here’s what Google has learned by blocking 100 million phishing attacks on Gmail users—every day. You should feel cranky about all the phishing emails you get. Because getting your brain in […]

Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D. is working to create an intelligent ICU for autonomous patient monitoring.

Navy, Air Force and DTRA awards support young investigators’ research.