Category: UF Engineering Center for Experiential Learning

The UF Career Connection Center (C3) has created the new UF Thrive Experiential Learning Scholarship, which expands student pathways to meaningful learning beyond the classroom by reducing financial barriers for University of Florida students. UF Thrive provides financial support that enables students to participate in hands‑on opportunities that prepare them to apply their knowledge, develop professional skills, and become world‑ready […]

The Research Excellence Program for Undergraduates (REPU) recognizes UF students who achieve significant experience in their research careers during their studies. Upon successful completion and documentation of REPU requirements, students were recognized by the Center for Undergraduate Research as a REPU scholar and awarded graduation chords that signify their exemplary participation in research. Congratulations to […]

While access has improved for people with disabilities, small inconveniences still exist everywhere. To solve that — piece by piece — students from the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering are helping design 3D-printed assistive devices for locals with unique needs.

Eight HWCOE students and organizations have been selected as award recipients at the 2026 UF Student Engagement Involvement Awards Ceremony. This competitive event is held every year and seeks applications from across the UF campus.

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

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). 

The HWCOE office of Student Affairs’ new Center for Experiential Learning is launching this winter with inaugural director, Sarah Furtney, Ph.D. The Experiential Learning Center is a single place where students, faculty, advisors, and industry partners can go for information and support about co-curricular, outside-of-the-classroom, formative experiences for our Gator Engineering students.

Joel comes to us from HWCOE First Year Advising and has extensive experience as an advisor and educator for our students. He completed graduate studies in Art History at UF, earned an MFA in Painting at Washington University in St. Lous, and received BA’s in Studio Art and Art History from the College of Charleston. Joel started his career here at UF as an academic advisor in HWCOE Advising in 2014.

Championships keep rolling in for University of Florida ASCE chapters, as student teams won first place overall earlier this month at the ASCE Southeast Student Symposium in Athens, Ga.

The UF Chapter of iGEM dazzled 2024 Grand Jamboree judges, earning a gold medal for their research into sepsis, a life-threatening condition that results from the body’s dysregulated response to infection.