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Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment Names Director
June 22, 2011Dr. Kirk Hatfield has accepted an appointment as the Founding Director of the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment. Dr. Hatfield received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from University of Iowa and his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Following graduation, he joined the University of Florida Department of Civil Engineering in […]
Read more »UF researchers refine system to detect explosive materials
June 9, 2011GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Airport security workers this year will employ an array of pre-boarding detection measures to scan for deadly materials smuggled into the luggage of the world’s 625 million passengers expected to travel this year. None, however, yet uses what researchers at the University of Florida believe is the world’s first explosive detection system that […]
Read more »Florida’s hurricane lessons could save homes, lives in tornado-prone areas
May 12, 2011GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scientists combing through the destruction left behind by the massive twister that swept through Tuscaloosa, Ala., last month say beefing up building codes and retrofitting existing homes with building techniques honed in hurricane-battered Florida could save property and lives in tornado-prone areas throughout the country. “Since Hurricane Andrew struck Florida back in […]
Read more »New pixel technology could pave way for next generation of consumer electronics
April 28, 2011GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The technology that makes your smart phone’s display screen fast, bright and lightweight could be coming to your television or laptop, thanks to a new type of light emitting transistor created by University of Florida researchers. The new transistor design resolves a key issue that has kept the organic light-emitting diode, or […]
Read more »UF leads world in reconfigurable supercomputing
February 15, 2011GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers say their supercomputer, named Novo-G, is the world’s fastest reconfigurable supercomputer and is able to perform some important science applications faster than the Chinese supercomputer touted as the world’s most powerful. In November, the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, for the first time ever, named […]
Read more »Engineering students’ ‘Chem-E-Car’ places nationally
November 17, 2010The University of Florida AIChE Chem-e-Car Team placed 2nd out of 32 universities in the Distance Competition and won the award for the Most Consistent Performance (best average distance between the two runs). As Cougar rolled to the finish, its creators held their breath. The car, fueled entirely by chemical reactions, had passed the rigorous […]
Read more »Students race robots in “Ben-Hur chariot race” re-enactment
July 30, 2010About 120 incoming freshmen built shoebox-sized robots out of LEGO Mindstorm NXT kits in a summer class on engineering design and programming.
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