Category: Stories

Gator Engineers, Karthik Kadrivel and Sona Muthuvijayan, won the Jacksonville Startup Weekend event this past weekend with their online app Moojic. Kadrivel and Muthuvijayan, along with team members Kumaran Mahendran and Neha Behani, beat out 17 other startups from around Florida to claim the win. Moojic is a web-based jukebox app that lets users personalize […]

“Not a single candidate had not made it through to officer” under Navy honoree. Focused on his education at Tulane University, Lt. Lincoln Schneider tucked away his interest in joining the Navy, believing it was a missed opportunity. Now, more than 10 years later, Schneider, a 2010 UF Levin College of Law graduate, is being […]

Gator Engineering startup company, Feathr, was labeled one of 14 startup companies that are predicted to go bigger in 2013 according to an article by The Next Web. Feathr, currently housed at UF’s Innovation Hub, was started by ISE major Aidan Augustin and CISE major Neal Ormsbee. Their team also consists of CISE majors Andrew […]

Professor Warren Dixon was asked to serve in the 2013-2017 class of the Air Force Science Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB is a Federal Advisory Committee that provides independent advice on matters of science and technology relating to the Air Force mission, reporting directly to the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff […]

Linda Parker Hudson is a pioneer.  As President and Chief Executive Officer of BAE Systems, Inc. she is the first woman to ever head a major Pentagon contractor.  Before coming to BAE, she was the first female corporate officer and company president in the history of General Dynamics; the first female vice president of an operating company […]

Gar Hoflund, retired professor in Chemical Engineering and owner of local Stubbies & Steins, passed away on Tuesday, January 15, after sudden health problems. Dr. Hoflund opened Stubbies & Steins with his daughter Berkeley in 2003 and he retired from UF in September 2012. The College of Engineering is joined in offering condolences to Dr. […]

An accountability report released at Wednesday’s Board of Governors meeting in Gainesville shows the University of Florida leads the state when it comes to producing graduates in so-called STEM majors emphasized by state leaders. At the end of the 2011-2012 academic year, UF awarded STEM bachelor’s degrees to 31 percent of its students, six percentage […]

In celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Morrill Act, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the College of Engineering and the Military Sciences have come together to present: Leadership and the Morrill Act: A 19th Century Initiative with 21st Century Implications. Gator Engineering students are invited to participate in a unique academic event […]

It’s pronounced “Porsh-uh.” It’s the name that represents the unattainable, the finest things in life. When you say it, you say it with reverence. Porsche. It’s the name that rolls off the tongue when you draw comparisons to what you want but you can’t have. The car you dream of owning. For SAE teams, it […]

Two College of Engineering faculty, UF Vice President of Research and MSE professor David Norton and Rolf E. Hummel professor of electronic materials and MSE associate chair of research Franky So, were chosen as Charter Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four researchers at the University of Florida have been chosen […]