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Environmental Engineering assistant professor Barron Henderson and his graduate students spent the week in Isaac’s path, collecting data and monitoring the storm. As part of a larger effort by the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) toward building houses to better withstand hurricanes, Henderson, along with fellow “storm chaser” Forrest Masters, an associate […]

Josseline Paulino arrived at Preview this summer with a clear career path in mind. Although she has wanted to become a doctor since about age 12, she never considered majoring in biomedical engineering to get there. When the major was introduced at Preview, Paulino’s interest piqued. “I thought it was really cool, so I looked […]

Story originally posted on Gainesville.com Gainesville company Altavian announced Monday that it had received a five-year contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to maintain and support its unmanned aircraft used for surveys and inspections in Florida and Puerto Rico. The Army Corps’ Jacksonville District had a contract since October 2011 to use Altavian’s […]

Every day, Gators roam the halls of UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center, in the form of fans, students, faculty and even mascot Albert the Alligator. But never had an alligator crawled through the doors at Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida until Friday, when pediatric patients stepped outside their […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida electrical engineering major Matthew Feldman, who is conducting research this summer at Rice University in Houston, broke a Guinness World Record for joggling – jogging and juggling – Friday at the Rice University running track. Feldman jogged one mile while simultaneously juggling five balls in 6 minutes, 33.65 seconds; […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida engineering students have garnered a second-place finish at the International RoboSub Competition in San Diego, where they tested their skills with a small robotic submarine autonomously maneuvering through a series of obstacles on a military base. The competition, sponsored by Associated for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International and the U.S. […]

A University of Florida student is about to take coordination to a new level when he tries today to break a Guinness World Record for joggling – running and juggling. Matthew Feldman, a 20-year-old electrical engineering major, is attempting to break the world record for jogging one mile while simultaneously juggling five objects. He has […]

West Virginia University Institute of Technology has named Dr. Zeljko “Z” Torbica the new dean of the Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering and Sciences. Currently the program director and associate clinical professor of construction management at Drexel University, Torbica has 13 years of higher education experience in both public and private universities, in addition […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The nuclear engineering program in the University of Florida’ s department of materials science and engineering was recently awarded an $800,000 research grant by the U.S. Department of Energy. As part of DOE’s ongoing commitment to support university-led nuclear research and development, the department is awarding a total of $19.9 million in […]

Barney L. Capehart, professor emeritus of UF Industrial and Systems Engineering was recently inducted into the Distinguished Graduates Society at the University of Oklahoma. Recognition of this honor took place at the university’s college of engineering convocation ceremony on May 12th. Professor Capehart was one of two of the university’s exceptional alumni to be inducted […]