Category: Student Life & Engagement

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 Eckhoff Steel Bridge Team has captured its fifth consecutive national title. The championship marks the UF team’s seventh first-place win since 1997, the most wins by a single team in the competition’s 33-year history.

Twice every school day, student musicians climb 194 stairs to perform mini-concerts 157 feet above the University of Florida campus.  Their instrument, the carillon, originated in 16th century Belgium and the Netherlands. Townspeople would gather at markets while the bells’ sweet tones echoed overhead from the tower and served as a soundtrack to their lives.  […]

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.

Inspired by the art and architecture of France, University of Florida engineering students showcased their artistic sides last week during downtown Gainesville’s Artwalk.