Category: Student Spotlight

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.

UF engineering students Mollie Brewer and Kevin Childs are co-primary investigators on a paper exploring how coaches analyze data – often from wearable sensors – to shape training and strategy and, ultimately, win more games.

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.  […]

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. Alexis Boselli, Amit Sapir, Ashni Zaverchand, and Juan Valderrama have won UF’s top student honor. The Hall of Fame recognizes students who consistently enhance the student experience through community involvement, campus activities, […]

UF’s IPPD celebrates 30 years of solving problems with products.

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.

UF’s Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers named one of the strongest national chapters

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.