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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 […]

Dr. Fan Ren, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Dr. Ren was selected for the prestigious award for contributions to the development of compound semiconductor electronic and photonic device processing methods. […]

Dr. Alan George and Dr. Oliver Wu, both professors with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have been recently named as Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Fellows. Dr. George was named Fellow for contributions to reconfigurable and high-performance computing. Dr. Wu was named Fellow for contributions to video communication and processing, and […]

Dr. Franky So, Rolf E. Hummel Professor of Electronic Materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected  a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). Dr. So was elected for his contributions to the development of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic photovoltaics. Since 1916, OSA has been the […]

Work is underway to create a spacecraft that won’t be rocketed into outer space but will be purposely destroyed on the ground. A University of Florida team led by Gator Engineering associate professor Norm Fitz-Coy is designing and fabricating DebriSat for its eventual demise. DebriSat is a 110-pound satellite that’s a double for a modern low-Earth […]

Speechless. That’s how Alex Tipton said he felt when he found out UF’s packaging-engineering team placed first in a national competition. He said he spent two months helping his peers prepare a hypothetical packaging proposal for a fictional company. Five other students competed on UF’s team at the Pack Expo International 2012 conference last week, […]

On Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 2012, Charles Axel Poëkel Sr. of Essex Fells passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and in the presence of his loyal assistant Phil Catague at his home in Essex Fells, where he had resided for the past 48 years. He recently celebrated his 97th birthday In 1943, while working at […]