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The first enrollee for the 2015 Florida Gators football team will also be a Gator Engineer. Daniel Imatorbhebhe (pronounced “EE-mat-tor-beh-beh”) is planning to study Industrial & Systems Engineering, in addition to being a tight end under the direction of new head coach Jim McElwain. In a recent interview with a Scout Recruiting reporter, Imatorbhebhe – […]

Engineers’ Week (eWeek) at the University of Florida is an annual two-week celebration, hosted by the Benton Engineering Council, that celebrates the contributions engineers make to society. It coincides with the national eWeek event, started by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951. A series of events and festivities will highlight what engineers do […]

Last summer they were one of seven startups featured in the Office of Technology Licensing’s Celebration of Innovation. This year, Comm-n-Sense, founded by UF Engineering Innovation Institute student Adam Kinsey (BSEE ’12), is doing business with a new name, and has secured a new round of funding. “Verigo,” which the company website defines as “truth […]

​The Florida Engineering Society (FES) and Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers (FICE) honored State Representative Lake Ray, District 12, with the Governor A.W. Gilchrist Award at the Florida capitol this month. The award celebrates engineers who exemplify high standards by embracing the spirit of public service and bring honor to the engineering profession through their […]

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. […]