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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — UF College of Engineering will receive $1M from the Leo Claire & Robert Adenbaum Foundation to establish the Robert W. Adenbaum Professorship in Engineering Innovation. This gift is intended to bolster the efforts of the Engineering Innovation Institute on top of supporting the vital role the college plays in the larger ecosystem […]

TAMPA, Fla./PRNewswire/ — Senior engineering students and faculty at the University of Florida in Gainesville are partnering with biotech cell and gene therapy company Morphogenesis, Inc. in Tampa to design an advanced, fully automated cell separation system capable of capturing rare cells – such as stem cells – and circulating tumor cells. The device is based […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A team of nanoparticle researchers at the University of Florida – who are studying ways to inhibit corrosion on various surfaces, improve antimicrobial coatings, and “green” a number of household products­ – was recently recognized by the National Science Foundation. UF’s Center for Particulate and Surfactant Systems (CPaSS) was awarded the 2015 Alexander […]

UF College of Engineering professor Dr. Patrick Traynor, co-director of UF’s Southeastern Security for Enterprise and Infrastructure (SENSEI) Center, was highlighted in a WCJB TV-20 news report, Mobile Purchase Fraud on the Rise. The report featured clips from a College of Engineering cybersecurity livestream Q&A event held on October 30, 2014, in which professors Traynor, Daniela Oliveira and Kevin […]

Professor Kevin W. Powers passed away on January 15, 2015. He was 63. Dr. Powers was the site director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Particulate and Surfactant Systems (CPaSS) at UF, and the associate director for the R&D facilities at UF’s Particle Engineering Research Center (PERC). He also taught particle technology, thermodynamics, and […]

Jon Dobson, a joint professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, has been inducted as a Fellow into the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). This honor is reserved for the top 2% of bioengineers who have excelled in their field. […]

Bruce Wheeler, professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been inducted as a Fellow into the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. The prestigious fellowship is comprised of inductees who are nominated, screened and selected for their outstanding contributions to the profession of medical and biological engineering. The academy […]

You may have seen one of Dr. Schneider’s last inventions on store shelves – a playful alligator-shaped floating pool thermometer and chlorinator – but his life, his full body of work, revealed great depths under the surface. Born in Munich and drafted into the German army during WWII, Schneider survived eight months in American prisoner-of-war […]

Two Gator Engineering professors are among 170 new Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, which recognizes the contributions of researchers from universities and non-profit organizations who are named inventors on U.S. patents. Brij M. Moudgil, a distinguished professor of materials science and engineering and W. Gregory Sawyer, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, […]

“The projects get more impressive every year. They’re using more integrated systems, and there’s all these new developments in technology, in what’s called the maker movement, using 3-D printers in making parts.” – William Patterson current doctoral student and 2010 winner of the robot competition, speaking at the 2014 Robot Day Read about and see […]