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A team of innovators from the University of Florida has created an award-winning tool that’s transforming the way students learn to code and saving them money in the process. 

With Tom Petty providing their soundtrack, about 110 University of Florida students explored the intersection of engineering and art in Europe this summer. 

The goal: Healthier organs ready for transplant. The UF-developed process stands to revolutionize organ transplants and post-surgical treatment.

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Warren Dixon, Ph.D., as its new interim dean.  Dixon brings to this role a distinguished record of leadership, research excellence, and service to the engineering community.  

Less than a month after UF’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge Team made history by capturing its fifth consecutive national title, another UF civil engineering team paddled its way to its fifth national title (four in the last six years). 

As part of UF Engineering’s 2025 Engaged Quality Instruction Through Professional Development (EQuIPD) camps, high school and middle school students will delve into design challenges that incorporate artificial intelligence, programming and machine learning with engineering design thinking.

Four of the 25 students recently inducted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame are engineering majors from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

Four departments in the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering made significant gains in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings among graduate engineering programs, according to figures recently released. 

Captivated by cubism, color, construction, and deconstruction, Rokheyatou “Roxie” Faye is the first Gator to double major in art and mechanical engineering at the University of Florida. 

A UF team has developed a microfluidic device for DNA purification that could speed up analysis of laboratory samples and match or exceed the purity of existing methods.