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Have you ever wondered why the Sunshine State isn’t leading the world in the production of solar energy? There are a combination of factors involved – some political and economic – but two engineers at the University of Florida have shed light on how the electrical challenges that come with using widespread solar energy could […]

University of Florida researchers in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences (EES) have developed a framework for designing custom soil covers at landfills to reduce harmful emissions. There are more than 3,400 active landfills in the U.S. About half of them accept household wastes, while the other half accept debris from construction and demolition projects.  […]

Every year the University of Florida Alumni Association recognizes alumni who are 35 years of age or younger and have distinguished themselves in their profession and community. On the morning of April 12th, at Emerson Alumni Hall, about two-dozen alumni – who studied all around campus, and now live all around the world – gathered […]

April 4, 2014 – News Release Tallahassee – Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that Optym, formerly Innovative Scheduling (IS), a leading developer of planning and scheduling software for the transportation and logistics industry, will expand its operations in Gainesville. The expansion will add 100 jobs and a capital investment of nearly $4.8 million in Alachua […]

Gator Engineering’s Integrated Product and Process Design program continues to spotlight innovation with its 19th annual Final Design Review and Prototype Demonstration Showcase on April 15. This exposition will be the first year undergraduate biomedical engineering students are participating. Team “Clean Cut” includes seniors from BME’s inaugural graduating class collaborating on a prototype system of […]

Biomedical Engineering doctoral student Badal Juneja won the People’s Choice Award after presenting his research on “backscatter imaging for medical applications” in the final round of the Three Minute Thesis Competition.  The competition – which challenges its contestants to condense years of work into an “elevator pitch” – was started in Australia in 2008 and […]

Cammy Abernathy, dean of UF’s College of Engineering, has been selected to be one of fourteen advisors for Epicenter, or the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Abernathy and other members of Epicenter’s National Advisory Board were identified as leaders in engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation education. […]

Our student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers won first place at the 2014 ASCE Southeast Regional Conference. Gator teams took home the trophy for first place overall, in addition to earning first place in both the Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe competitions. The competitions at the ASCE Conference are designed to give […]

  Mindtree’s president Scott Staples and their local general manager Joelle Smith donned their RowdyReptiles shirts as they presented our dean, Cammy Abernathy, and Innovation Square’s Ed Poppell with the honor of being Mindtree Ambassadors.

Behind every successful technology startup is a proud college of engineering. Shadow Health – the first company to receive $200,000 in equity financing through a new state program designed to bring research from public universities to market – has it’s origins in UF’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. Since 2004, professor Ben […]