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Growing engineering and arts programs ‘Won’t Back Down’ in Europe

Wednesday September 3, 2025

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

UF concrete canoe team claims its fifth championship

Tuesday July 1, 2025

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).

A UF Rising Star, ECE’s Silva wins more teaching awards

Sunday June 29, 2025

Catia Silva, Ph.D., won the 2025 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award, as well as the 2025 UF Rising Star Award

1,000 MIDI files later: Espinosa blends music, AI and engineering for global change

Friday June 6, 2025

When University of Florida graduate Andres Espinosa isn’t optimizing supply chains, diving into transportation research or fine-tuning an artificial intelligence model to compose video game music, he often can be found on the pickleball court or strumming his guitar.

Record-setting UF Steel Bridge team claims another national title

Tuesday June 3, 2025

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.

From sidelines to spreadsheets: UF doctoral students take AI coaching research from the court to Japan

Monday May 12, 2025

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.

Center for Experiential Learning launches with Sarah Furtney as director

Monday May 12, 2025

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.

Center for Experiential Learning welcomes Joel Parker

Friday May 9, 2025

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.

‘A well rounded life’: Meet the engineers in the bell tower

Monday April 21, 2025

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. […]

Meet UF Engineering’s 2025 Hall of Fame inductees

Wednesday April 9, 2025

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, […]