{"id":42389,"date":"2026-02-05T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/?p=42389"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:13:53","slug":"red-white-orange-and-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/stories\/red-white-orange-and-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Red, white,\u00a0orange\u00a0and blue\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When gold medalist Erin Jackson laced&nbsp;up her skates and put on her game face&nbsp;for the&nbsp;Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games&nbsp;in February,&nbsp;her stateside cheering squad&nbsp;included&nbsp;many rowdy reptiles.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ocala-bred&nbsp;speedskater&nbsp;is also a Gator engineer who graduated with honors from the Department of Materials Science &amp; Engineering in 2015.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2026\/02\/Dr-R-and-Erin-Jackson-e1770302522278.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42393\" style=\"width:400px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MSE Professor Nancy Ruzycki, Ph.D., holds Erin Jackson\u2019s gold medal when the two had lunch after the 2022 Winter Olympics. Photo courtesy of Nancy Ruzycki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cErin is someone UF should be proud of,\u201d said Professor Nancy Ruzycki, Ph.D., master lecturer and MSE\u2019s director of undergraduate laboratories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make no&nbsp;mistake,&nbsp;the Herbert&nbsp;Wertheim College of Engineering is proud of Jackson. Professors are certified fans who&nbsp;cheered&nbsp;when their Gator engineer took&nbsp;to the ice to defend her gold medal&nbsp;last month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while Jackson did not earn medals this year, she&nbsp;remains&nbsp;a very famous&nbsp;MSE&nbsp;alumnus.&nbsp;She is a frequent face on&nbsp;television,&nbsp;and, after all, she is the\u202ffirst Black American woman to win an Olympic speed skating medal and the first Black woman to win an individual Winter Olympic gold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professors remember Jackson as an ambitious student who&nbsp;maintained&nbsp;exceptional grades while darting back and forth to Ocala for training.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cErin Jackson was an outstanding student,\u201d said MSE Professor Emeritus John J.&nbsp;Mecholsky, Jr., Ph.D. \u201cShe was&nbsp;a very careful&nbsp;experimenter and a delight to work with. She was always smiling and very eager to&nbsp;accomplish&nbsp;any given task, difficult or not.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe was very driven. At the time, she was competing at an elite level in inline skating and working diligently to balance that with being a high-performing student in a rigorous curriculum,\u201d noted Jennifer Andrew, the associate dean for Research and Innovation at the College of Engineering, as well as the MSE Margaret A. Ross professor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During&nbsp;the&nbsp;opening ceremonies&nbsp;in Milan, Jackson&nbsp;carried&nbsp;the American flag for Team USA, a substantial honor as picked by the United States National Olympic&nbsp;Committee.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI watched her in the last Olympics when she won gold,\u201d&nbsp;Mecholsky&nbsp;recalled. \u201cIt was&nbsp;very exciting. I am&nbsp;a very proud&nbsp;academic father.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a University of Florida engineering student, Jackson displayed Olympic-level discipline; she was well organized and completed everything on time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think she developed the skills of organization and timeliness from her love of athletics,\u201d&nbsp;Mecholsky&nbsp;said. \u201cHer senior thesis work \u2014 The Effect of Controlled Crack Length on the Fracture Mechanics of Y-TZP \u2014 was outstanding and will contribute to a journal publication.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was a solid engineer, a problem-solver who, Ruzycki recalled, brought her broken shoe to the failure-analysis lab one day to&nbsp;determine&nbsp;its failure: the&nbsp;shoe\u2019s&nbsp;glue, Jackson concluded, could not handle the forces on the strap.\u202fShe had an analytic approach and a penchant for asking, \u201cWhy?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cErin took this approach to her sport,\u201d Ruzycki said. \u201cShe was always talking about how she was working with her coach to improve her&nbsp;times&nbsp;and performance metrics. Erin loved materials science and was dedicated to finishing her degree, but sports was her first love. Her passion for performance was&nbsp;evident,&nbsp;even as an undergraduate.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2026\/02\/Dr-Kevin-Jones-with-Erin-Jackson-500x376.jpg\" alt=\"Erin Jackson poses with MSE Graduate Coordinator and Distinguished Professor Kevin Jones.\" class=\"wp-image-42395\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2026\/02\/Dr-Kevin-Jones-with-Erin-Jackson-500x376.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2026\/02\/Dr-Kevin-Jones-with-Erin-Jackson-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2026\/02\/Dr-Kevin-Jones-with-Erin-Jackson-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2026\/02\/Dr-Kevin-Jones-with-Erin-Jackson.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Olympian and UF Engineering alumnus Erin Jackson poses with MSE Graduate Coordinator and Distinguished Professor Kevin Jones after the 2022 Winter Olympics. Photo courtesy of Kevin Jones <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>MSE&nbsp;Distinguished Professor and Fredrick N.&nbsp;Rhines Professor&nbsp;Kevin Jones&nbsp;remembered Jackson as very humble.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe easily earned an A in a difficult class, so she was obviously very smart,\u201d Jones recalled. \u201cShe\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0cocky, but she was confident. I asked if she was\u00a0surprised\u00a0she won, and she said not really. She said\u00a0as long as\u00a0she didn\u2019t make any\u00a0mistakes,\u00a0she believed she would win, which is the kind of confidence she possesses and is probably common to most world champions. Just a\u00a0really neat\u00a0kid.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduation, Jackson stayed in touch, Ruzycki said, and her MSE peer cohort supported her in her early years of Olympic preparation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI still have a T-shirt I bought to help support Erin in her first Olympics and will proudly wear it next week for this new challenge,\u201d Ruzycki said.\u202f\u201cErin is a great role model to young people everywhere in her perseverance, resilience, rising to a challenge and pivoting to achieve greater success.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>In 2023, Jackson returned to UF to speak at the university-wide spring commencement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-create-block-blockquote\"><section class=\"blockquote-section w-100 position-relative\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center\"><div class=\"col col-lg-12\"><div class=\"card\"><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><span><span class=\"quote\">\n<p>Dream big, execute small.<\/p>\n<p>Break it down into what needs to happen right now, in tiny, bite-sized pieces, to take one step, one stride toward that goal. 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