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Industrial and Systems Engineering undergraduate student, Michelle Gauthreaux, was selected as the winner of the $5,000 scholarship awarded by The Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers/American Council of Engineering Companies of Florida (FICE/ACEC of Florida). Since 2004, FICE/ACEC of Florida scholarships honor Florida college students expressing interest and commitment to the business and management of the […]

Imagine you’re locked in a room somewhere in Russia, with 360 programmers from six continents. You and your two best friends have five hours and one computer to solve the world’s greatest problem: Where is the nearest bathroom? Actually, you have to solve several problems, and finding the bathroom might not be one of them. […]

Josephine Allen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was recently awarded a 2013 Pilot Project grant from UF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The UF CTSI’s most recent round of one-year intramural pilot grants provides approximately $250,000 in support of 14 projects led by investigators from six colleges. CTSI Pilot Project Awards support […]

Congratulations to the two outstanding engineering students who won the Presidential Service Award: Akua Oppong-Anane, a PhD candidate in the department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, volunteered over 60 hours of her time to help library patrons strengthen their computer skills and literacy. As a science fair judge at a local middle school, she also mentored […]

GAINESVILLE, FLA – Amid a sea of bicycles and pedestrians, a racecar and its driver made a pitstop on the North Lawn yesterday afternoon. The #78 Nuclear Clean Air Energy car and its IZOD IndyCar driver Simona De Silvestro were on campus promoting STEM education and careers in the energy industry.  The College of Engineering […]

March 18, 2013 – “Today’s announcement has exactly the kind of impact on our students, faculty, citizens, and state that our college aspires to foster. If you look around the country at those regions which are known for being the focal point for job creation and innovation – the Bay Area, Austin – you will […]

Gator Engineering will be well represented at the University of Florida’s Office of Technology Licensing’s (OTL) 2013 Technology Showcase on March 14.  UF inventors who had technology licensed in 2012 will be honored with a plaque – created by Fracture, a local Gator Engineering start up company – at a recognition ceremony following the showcase. […]

‘Whit’ Whitney helps entrepreneurs build prototypes that can be taken to market David “Whit” Whitney came to Gainesville to further his career in real estate investment and ended up drawing on his experience in venture capital to get involved in local technology startup companies as mentor and investor. Through his Energent Ventures company, he has invested […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four UF College of Engineering faculty members have been inducted as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers because of their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. They are: Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering […]

Some things get better with time. Take photoacoustic tomography (PAT), for example. In its 3-D edition, this imaging technology could paint a portrait of a brain. Add a fourth dimension – or, time – and you can use it to locate the focus of an epileptic seizure as it is taking place in that same […]