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Gator Engineering, together with the rest of the University of Florida, is very proud to announce the appointment of Dr. W. Kent Fuchs as president-elect of the university.

Gator Engineering, together with the rest of the University of Florida, is very proud to announce the appointment of Dr. W. Kent Fuchs as president-elect of the university. Dr. Fuchs comes to us from Cornell University where he served as provost and Chief Operating Officer. His engineering career includes service as the Joseph Silbert Dean […]

The last time they watched at football game at the University of Florida, the Gators had never played the Seminoles, J. Wayne Reitz was the president, and the only television set they knew of was in the laundry room at the Florida Veterans Village (also known as Flavet). And just like this year’s Gator Growl, […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center will  play a leading role in researching the next generation of “smart” electronics funded by a National Science Foundation  program that combines federal money with industry investments in strategic research. As a designated Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, the MIST Center will receive over $880,000 […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Engineering’s future Innovation Nexus Building will add to its list of distinguished underwriters Subroto and Susmita Bagchi, who have announced a $1 million gift to UF. Their gift will be used to support the Engineering Innovation Nexus Building, a new facility to be located at the […]

Engineering students, faculty and staff are mourning the loss of one of our newest graduate students. Krishnendu “Krish” Saha came to UF from India this fall to study electrical and computer engineering. His accidental death last Saturday at his apartment complex leaves us with a great sense of loss – he was just starting out […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ask anyone who has a surgical pin in their body, and they likely will tell you they wish it would just go away. In the future, it just might, with help from research by Michele Manuel, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Florida. Manuel has developed […]

“Right now, in Florida and in the United States, waste-to-energy ash is not recycled in any fashion. What is needed is demonstrations like this to provide the data, the information, and the assurance to all communities who are interested in this that this is indeed a viable and safe practice.” — Timothy Townshend, professor, UF’s […]

Dr. Seymour S. Block passed away on August 11th, 2014 at the age of 96. A dynamic innovator, he was the university’s longest-serving faculty member. He will be dearly missed at the college and by his many former students and colleagues. Dr. Block came to the University of Florida in 1944 when – due to […]

Freshman engineering students recently demonstrated their soccer-playing robots to patients at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital.