Congratulations to the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering faculty and staff awardees for 2024-2025!

2024-2025 awards for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

April 23, 2025

The 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.

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UF's Century Tower

‘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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FSI embarks on $1.2 M collaboration with L3Harris

April 14, 2025

The Florida Semiconductor Institute at the University of Florida has entered into a research agreement with tech giant L3Harris Technologies focused on next-generation microelectronics.

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A New Era of Nuclear? The Potential of Gas Core Reactors 

April 12, 2025

As the demand for clean, high-efficiency energy grows, a research team led by Justin Watson, Ph.D., and Chris McDevitt, Ph.D., associate professors of nuclear engineering at the University of Florida, is exploring gas core nuclear reactors (GCRs). This next-generation reactor design could offer a safer and more efficient way to generate atomic power by replacing […]

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Meet UF Engineering’s 2025 Hall of Fame inductees

April 9, 2025

Four 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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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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$7.5M research project aims to improve safety on hazardous tidal mudflats 

April 4, 2025

A $7.5 million, five-year project funded by the Office of Naval Research is breaking new ground in tidal mudflats research.   Led by Nina Stark, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, this ambitious initiative brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from five universities across the country. The project […]

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This time, it’s personal. UF student devotes his life to researching type 1 diabetes

March 31, 2025

UF Ph.D. student Cameron Crouse is rolling his experiences, knowledge and insight as a type 1 diabetes patient into his graduate research, hoping to find a diabetes treatment at the cellular level through tissue engineering.

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40 Gators Under 40

Engineering alumni honored in 2025 “40 Gators Under 40” awards

March 24, 2025

Four 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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Miami Herald: UF professor researching better monitoring practices for drones

March 21, 2025

Researchers at the University of Florida are conducting work at an autonomous drone center for the Air Force and a testing ground called the Autonomy Park for the U.S. Department of Defense.

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