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Altavian, IA Tech, of UF Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering join other unmanned aircraft systems companies in accelerating jobs and tech transfer in city. Gainesville has become a hotbed for small companies that provide drones for military reconnaissance, aerial surveys of civil engineering projects or environmental surveys. Out of five such companies, two recently stepped […]

Congratulations to UF NSBE, SASE, SHPE, SWE and Tau Beta Pi – Florida Alpha! At Gator Engineering, diversity, inclusion and multiplicity is not just a way of thinking and working, it is also part of our DNA. We fully support and commend all efforts on the parts of our students in leading the way to […]

India-based Mindtree Limited decided to open software development centers in the United States because its Fortune 2000 clients here needed more immediate access and support for their digital offerings. The company chose Gainesville for its first center in large part because of the access to computer science talent coming out of the University of Florida […]

Electrical and Computer Engineering master student, Andrew Gray and his pet parrot Pepper made headlines everywhere with their beak-driven “Bird Buggy”. Gray’s YouTube video demonstrating the buggy and Pepper’s driving skills has gone viral with over 538,000 hits and been featured on NBC’s Today Show and ABC’s Good Morning America. The buggy has also been […]

The University of Florida’s College of Engineering showed the public what robots can do on Wednesday. Eric Schwartz, associate director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, said UF students’ past robots have won world championships in the past, and this semester’s creations are equally captivating. Schwartz said he is always impressed with the great work produced […]

Despite his clipped wings, Pepper the parrot is now mobile and a little quieter thanks to robotics. Pepper now cruises around in the Bird Buggy, a robot created by Andrew Gray, a 29-year-old electrical and computer engineering graduate student, for the intelligent machines design laboratory course. Hosted by the course instructors, The Bird Buggy, and […]

UF and Progress Energy officials dedicated its recent solar project during a ceremony outside Weil Hall – home to the College of Engineering. The solar project, funded by Progress Energy’s SunSense program, includes a 100-kilowatt solar system with three separate installations at the Microbiology Building, Rinker Hall and Energy Park in SW Gainesville.  A kiosk […]

Gator Engineer Trase Travers (BS ’91, Civil Engineering), president and CEO of Millennium Engineering and Integration Company, was recently featured in  Profile magazine where he spoke about his work with NASA and what it takes to stay competitive in the space field.   Read article here…  

Three of the 5 newly honored Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from the University of Florida are Gator Engineers.  Dr. Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, associate dean of research and distinguished professor in the department of chemical engineering, was named fellow for seminal contributions to the understanding of particle flow and […]

Dr. Arnoldo Valle Levinson, professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, has been selected to become a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.   The admission of new members to the Academy is governed by a careful process of evaluation by the Mexican Academy of Sciences membership committee. Founded in 1959, The Mexican […]