Julie Cummings: University of Florida Four-Year Scholar

May 1, 2008
Julie Cummings graduates this week with a B.S. in electrical engineering. She was one of just a handful of students campus- wide to receive the prestigious University of Florida Four-Year Scholar award.

Kyle Denning: University of Florida Four-Year Scholar

May 1, 2008
Kyle Denning graduates this week with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He was one of just a handful of students campus- wide to receive the prestigious University of Florida Four-Year Scholar award.

Student Spotlight: Randall Gruby

March 18, 2008
Mechanical and aerospace engineering senior Randall Gruby knows teamwork.

Student Spotlight: Anesia Burns

March 18, 2008
For materials science and engineering junior Anesia Burns, it's all about discovery.

Student Spotlight: Margo Monroe

March 18, 2008
Materials science and engineering senior Margo Monroe takes research step-by-step.

Student Spotlight: George Fernandez

March 18, 2008
Civil engineering junior George Fernandez prefers to think outside the box.

Student Spotlight: Kyle Fischer

March 18, 2008
University Scholar and chemical engineering junior Kyle Fischer learns by experience.

Assistant professor wins $1 million PECASE grant

February 4, 2008
Dr. Clint Slatton received the prestigious government PECASE award to further fund his research in measuring and predicting traveling signals.

Former Gator Engineering professor honored by National Academy of Engineering

February 4, 2008
Professor Rudolf E. Kalman received the 2008 Charles Stark Draper Prize for the development of his "Kalman Filter."

It's All About the Students

January 25, 2008
Angela Lindner embraces her new role as the College of Engineering's associate dean for student affairs.

Earle Wins Award for Mentoring Excellence

November 16, 2007
Associate Dean for Student Affairs Jonathan F.K. Earle received a prestigious award from the National Science Foundation. He was honored Friday in a ceremony at the White House.

Student Success — A Joint Venture

September 10, 2007
Florida Tomorrow Is a day when children dream of becoming engineers.

Friction, Lubrication And Wear — That's Engineering

September 7, 2007
Florida Tomorrow is a belief that no problem is too big to solve

Finding Help In A Familiar Face

September 7, 2007
Florida Tomorrow is a place where every student has a chance to change the world.

Trey Hamilton - The Tension Tormentor

June 28, 2007
Because of its durability, concrete is a primary building material in Florida, and Gator Engineers are making sure it stays true to its job.

David Prevatt - The Tunnel Master

June 25, 2007
It’s 11:30 p.m. and the wind outside is howling. The weather radio says a category 4 hurricane just made landfall and your house is in the projected path. How’s your home going to hold up? Is your family going to be safe? Did you do enough to prepare? Gator Engineers are working to make sure your home and your family are safe from this type of disaster.

Kurt Gurley - The Cyclo-Coder

June 21, 2007
Getting the least amount of bang for your buck — at least when it come to flying debris banging up your home during a hurricane.

Ron Cook - The Enforcer

June 21, 2007
A different side of engineering — turning research into laws to protect people and property from disaster.

Ted Krauthammer - The Blast

June 21, 2007
Brandishing geometry as a tool to thwart terrorist attacks and to quell natural disasters, this engineer is a force not taken lightly.

Ramesh L. Shrestha - The Flying Cartographer

June 21, 2007
Shooting lasers from an airplane to map areas after they have been hit by a disaster is par for the course for Gator Engineers.

Gary Consolazio - The Extinguisher

June 21, 2007
With hurricane season lurking, it's comforting to know Gator Engineers are striving to make you safer — in many different ways.

Peter Sheng - The Surge Shield

June 20, 2007
A reliable forecast system that details the wind and storm surge associated with hurricanes — that’s Gator Engineering.

Forrest Masters - The Wind Wizard

June 20, 2007
Taking it to the ground to head off hurricanes as they tear across the state.

Studying Diversity Issues with Immersive Virtual Humans

April 10, 2007
Gator Engineering is proud to announce that seven faculty members have won 2007 NSF CAREER awards. Each year, the National Science Foundation recognizes the nation's most promising young researchers through the Faculty Early Career Development — or CAREER — Program. The awards are among the NSF's most prestigious.

Delay-Constrained Wireless Networking: Where Shannon Meets Erlang

April 10, 2007
Gator Engineering is proud to announce that seven faculty members have won 2007 NSF CAREER awards. Each year, the National Science Foundation recognizes the nation's most promising young researchers through the Faculty Early Career Development — or CAREER — Program. The awards are among the NSF's most prestigious.

Creating Materials via Active Self-Assembly Driven by Biomolecular Motors

April 10, 2007
Gator Engineering is proud to announce that seven faculty members have won 2007 NSF CAREER awards. Each year, the National Science Foundation recognizes the nation's most promising young researchers through the Faculty Early Career Development — or CAREER — Program. The awards are among the NSF's most prestigious.

Traffic Differentiation in Multihop Wireless Networks

April 10, 2007
Gator Engineering is proud to announce that seven faculty members have won 2007 NSF CAREER awards. Each year, the National Science Foundation recognizes the nation's most promising young researchers through the Faculty Early Career Development — or CAREER — Program. The awards are among the NSF's most prestigious.

Multi-Scale Modeling of Self-Assembly and Structural Transitions in Amphiphilic Systems

April 10, 2007
Gator Engineering is proud to announce that seven faculty members have won 2007 NSF CAREER awards. Each year, the National Science Foundation recognizes the nation's most promising young researchers through the Faculty Early Career Development — or CAREER — Program. The awards are among the NSF's most prestigious.

Multiphase Sediment Transport Modeling Framework

April 10, 2007
Gator Engineering is proud to announce that seven faculty members have won 2007 NSF CAREER awards. Each year, the National Science Foundation recognizes the nation's most promising young researchers through the Faculty Early Career Development — or CAREER — Program. The awards are among the NSF's most prestigious.

Very High Efficiency Organic-Based Photovoltaic Cells - Novel Nanostructure and Photon, Exciton, and Electron Management

April 10, 2007
Gator Engineering is proud to announce that seven faculty members have won 2007 NSF CAREER awards. Each year, the National Science Foundation recognizes the nation's most promising young researchers through the Faculty Early Career Development — or CAREER — Program. The awards are among the NSF's most prestigious.

Micro Air Vehicles + Gator Engineering = Champions

January 8, 2007
While Florida Football proved they are champions — Gator Engineering is just reviewing its championships. One of the most memorable is the MAV win in 2006, but not becasue we won — because we won for the eighth time.

IPPD Brings Home Another Gator Engineering Championship

January 8, 2007
As the University's athletic profile rises, the College of Engineering jumps at the opportunity to let the nation know Gator Engineering is already overflowing with champions — including the latest win from the Integrated Product Design Program team.

Subjugator Swamps Its Rivals

January 8, 2007
The Florida Gators have proven themselves in the Swamp this year. Across the street, Gator Engineers — specifically the SubjuGator engineers — have drowned their competition two years in a row. On the field or way down deep, the other team is always Gator bait.

UF Environmental Engineers Go National Too

January 5, 2007
In October the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences design team won a national championship in Dallas and solidified the superiority of the Department.

Finding Fate At Fourteen

December 24, 2006
Few people find fate when they're teenagers. David Greenspan found it twice at Marine Park Junior High, P.S. 278, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Noted entrepreneur shares business wisdom

November 8, 2006
Sachio Semmoto, a noted entrepreneur and telecommunications leader, gave the inaugural presentation of the College of Engineering's The Weil Lectures. The series is intended to provide students and faculty an opportunity to learn from entrepreneurs, CEOs and successful leaders.

ECE food-drive tradition grows

November 6, 2006
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is leading the College toward extraordinary opportunities — but not in the way you might think.

Golden Gator Attacks Ribs

October 11, 2006
The mission — eat ribs and barbecue the LSU Tigers. UF alumni poured into the Stephen C. O’Connell Center by the hundreds Saturday. The smell of fresh barbecue and the thump of loud music wafted through the air greeting the visitors. Orange and blue balloons and lots of reminiscent smiles filled the room.

Gator Engineer Proves Faithful to Alma Mater

October 11, 2006
The mission — eat ribs and barbeque the LSU Tigers.

UF alumni poured into the Stephen C. O’Connell Center by the hundreds Saturday. The smell of fresh barbecue and the thump of loud music wafted through the air greeting the visitors. Orange and blue balloons and lots of reminiscent smiles filled the room.

Mission accomplished.

The Homecoming Barbecue — Where Alumni Become Rock Stars

October 11, 2006
The mission — eat meat and barbecue the LSU Tigers. UF alumni poured into the Stephen C. O’Connell Center by the hundreds Saturday. The smell of fresh barbecue and the thump of loud music wafted through the air greeting the visitors. Orange and blue balloons and lots of reminiscent smiles filled the room.

Professor Peter Sheng is Right on Track — the Track of the Hurricane

June 8, 2006
Sheng is on the trail of the hurricane, and it's only a matter of time before he is in the lead.

Hurricane Experts Prepare for the 2006 Season Like Everyone Else

June 1, 2006
As the 2006 hurricane season begins, the U.S. coast waits in anticipation — even the experts.

Ferguson has four golden years

May 11, 2006
As a member of Golden Key and Beta Eta Sigma honor societies, Kianna Ferguson has a promising future.

Rees graduates with bursting resume

May 11, 2006
Justin Rees is an exemplary agricultural and biological engineering graduate. So much so that College of Engineering administrators selected him to speak at the College's recent commencement ceremony.

Galindo is a hard act to follow

May 11, 2006
Galindo has come a long way in the first-four years of his engineering career.

Adimora aims high

May 11, 2006
Nnenna Adimora, a regular on the Dean's List, will begin graduate school and study biomedical engineering.

Rougeau, most helpful and most amazing

May 11, 2006
Marcel Rougeau certainly made the most out of his time at UF and graduates with many honors.

Lightbourne shines bright

May 11, 2006
Michelle Lightbourne is a shining example of what a student honored with the Dean Weil Award should be.

Cohn honored as a Distinguished Alumnus

May 11, 2006
Robert Cohn ('72) received a Distinguished Alumnus award at the College of Engineering's Spring 2006 Commencement.

Hunter speaks to new Gator Grads

May 11, 2006
A Gator Engineer himself, Thomas Hunter ('66) spoke to a new crop of engineering graduates at the Spring 2006 Commencement.

Doctor Pruitt made his career choice early

April 28, 2006
J. Crayton Pruitt Sr. will receive an honorary doctorate at this spring's Commencement. Now an accomplished surgeon, he was only three years old when he decided to become a doctor.

Pruitt receives honorary degree at Spring Commencement

April 28, 2006
The University of Florida is pleased to award Dr. John Crayton Pruitt Sr. an honorary doctoral degree for his extraordinary accomplishments in the field of biomedical engineering.

J. Crayton Pruitt Sr.: Surgeon, Inventor & Biomedical Engineer

April 28, 2006
J. Crayton Pruitt Sr., MD, will receive an honorary doctorate at the Spring 2006 Commencement exercises.

Re-Imagining epilepsy treatment

March 9, 2006
Paul Carney is a multidisciplinary team by himself. A physician and an engineer, he is currently the chief of pediatric neurology and director of the pediatric epilepsy program at the University of Florida. He has academic appointments in UF's Pediatrics, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering departments.

Huabei Jiang has found ways of making diseases reveal their secrets

March 9, 2006
Professor Huabei Jiang is doing pioneering work in alternative medical imaging techniques. Some of the methods being tested use familiar tools, such as lasers and ultrasound, in ways never tried before. They are revealing information about diseases at the molecular and functional level that may lead to better treatments and possible cures.

Hope for the brain to heal itself

March 9, 2006
Assistant Professor William Ogle is one member of the new team of dedicated researchers who have joined the Biomedical Engineering faculty, attracted by UF's work in multidisciplinary gene research. Since his arrival in fall 2005, he has been busy setting up his laboratory in UF's Brain Institute, where he will do research on the application of gene regulation to problems of memory loss caused by disease and by aging.

Biomedical Engineering department receives $10 million transformational gift

January 17, 2006
J. Crayton Pruitt Sr., a St. Petersburg surgeon, inventor and entrepreneur, has committed $10 million to UF for the BME department. As a result, University officials announced they will name the department in his honor.

Four-Year Scholar designed systems for Disney

December 14, 2005
Julia Ann Dickey is honored as the Gator Engineering Four-Year Scholar. She graduates summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering.

Service and studies drove Four-Year Scholar

December 14, 2005
Sean M. Donovan is graduating with a 4.0 grade point average in electrical engineering and has been named the University of Florida Outstanding Four-Year Scholar.

Student speaker excels inside and outside the classroom

December 14, 2005
Scott Kaufmann is one of this fall's commencement speakers. He graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with a 3.94 GPA.

Academia appeals to student speaker

December 14, 2005
Julie Lawson is graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics. She has earned a cumulative GPA of 3.9.

Two-Year Scholar values studies, volunteer activities

December 14, 2005
Erin Sands is honored as the Gator Engineering Two-Year Scholar. She graduates magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a 3.74 GPA.

Engineering runs in retiree's family

November 22, 2005
Larry Smith earned two degrees from Gator Engineering, then went on to a long career with the Florida Department of Transportation. His son became a Gator Engineer, too, and now his grandson is headed in that direction.

Recent grad returns to introduce his family to Gator Engineering

November 22, 2005
Brian Anderson brought his wife and daughter with him to campus for Homecoming 2005. He showed them photos of his years at UF and spoke fondly of his time in the College.

Couple befriends steel bridge team, college

November 22, 2005
Retirees Bill and Linda Eckoff didn't graduate from the College of Engineering, but they're both Gator Engineers at heart. After moving to Florida in 1997, they looked for a way to get involved at UF. They found the steel bridge team, and soon made a large donation to create an endowment.

Veteran is grateful for Gator Engineering education

November 22, 2005
James Williams considers his Gator Engineering education something to be proud of. It prepared him for a long career as a supervisor of Southern Bell engineers, and it gave him a strong background in his field.

Active hurricane season keeps Gurley busy

September 21, 2005
Kurt Gurley, associate professor of Civil & Coastal Engineering, has had a busy year as hurricanes have battered and continue to threaten coastal and inland areas with a combination of high winds and flooding.

Safety, protection key goals of lightning research

September 19, 2005
Vladmir Rakov and his colleagues at the UF International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT) in Camp Blanding, Fla., research the most effective way to protect homes and their residents from the dangerous effects of lightning, and they do their research using rockets.

Leading disaster expert has faith in Florida's resources

September 16, 2005
Hurricane Katrina left officials scrambling to organize relief efforts. It also left many Floridians wondering how their state would handle such a crisis.

Environmental engineer hopes to make the world breathe a little easier

September 16, 2005
Jean Andino’s co-workers once told her that she needed to “come down to earth” with her research in atmospheric pollution. At the time, she was studying the effects of pollution on the stratosphere, the area above the earth’s surface containing the ozone layer.

Ladd goes with the flow, brings home award

July 18, 2005
Tony Ladd, professor of chemical engineering and a 2004-2005 University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professor, conducts research using numerical simulations to develop a fundamental understanding of particulate transport in suspensions and porous media.

Energy lights way for Materials Science & Engineering professor

July 14, 2005
Eric Wachsman, a professor of materials science & engineering, saw first-hand how important energy is to a state’s economy and how the choices we make directly effect our environment and nation’s security while growing up and attending college in California.

Roque travels down road of success with transportation studies

July 14, 2005
Rey Roque could be more important to the health of your car than your mechanic. His research in transportation infrastructure has changed the road you drive on, and earned him a selection as a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor for the 2004-2005 academic year.

UF Teacher of the Year a familiar face for engineering students

July 13, 2005
Robert Thieke isn’t just one of the College of Engineering’s best teachers, he’s one of the best in the university.

Perserverance, patience key to Gator Engineer's success

July 11, 2005
Environmental Engineering Sciences Associate Professor Angela Lindner has jumped hurdles and explored a plethora of topics during her career as an engineer. College of Engineering Dean Pramod Khargonekar announced recently that she has been awarded tenure, making Lindner an even stronger role model for other female faculty members hoping to overcome the inherent challenges associated with obtaining tenure at a top university.

IPPD team hopes technology will reduce traffic fatalities

May 25, 2005
Road fatalities are an ever-present and increasing problem throughout the nation. As more Americans buy larger vehicles and SUVs, the need to protect other drivers on the road when one of them has an accident is more important than ever.

Business student discovers engineering is his true passion

May 20, 2005
Bryan Blackburn began college as a business student, until he realized he'd be a better businessman with an engineering degree.

IPPD student team develops revolutionary heart pump

May 20, 2005
With more than 2,000 heart transplants performed each year and twice that many patients left on waiting lists, it is imperative that medicine look to technology to help battle the growing epidemic.

Integration of creativity and technical ability leads to Gator Engineer's success

May 2, 2005
Commencement speaker Emily Welles used her creativity and technical ability to get the degree she always wanted. Now she'll use her real-world experience to get the job she always wanted.

Real-world experience and entrepreneurial spirit add up to success for Gator Engineer

May 2, 2005
James Greco knew that a Gator Engineering education would provide him a solid background for a future in engineering. He also discovered that real-world experience was the difference between surviving and thriving.

Interest in the environment fuels Gator Engineer's air pollution research

May 2, 2005
Many would see an interest in the environment as an ingredient for an environmental engineering sciences degree. But Havala Taylor, UF's Four-Year Scholar, is tackling the problem of air pollution from a chemical perspective.

Leader in computer technology development honored at commencement

April 21, 2005
Hyung Kyu Lim has spearheaded development of some of the computer world's most exciting and influential technology. He is a spring 2005 College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus.

Nation's security rests in the hands of a Gator Engineer

April 21, 2005
As chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nils Diaz, a College of Engineering 2005 Distinguished Alumnus, has made a significant impact on the security and future of our country and the world.

Gator Engineer turned venture capitalist returns to share his life lessons

April 21, 2005
Robert Cohn, speaker at the College of Engineering's April 29 spring 2005 commencement ceremony, is an example of the value of a well-rounded UF education with a basis in the physical sciences.

Engineering is student's creative outlet

April 4, 2005
As a senior majoring in chemical engineering, Nisita Wanakule says it's the thrill of research that makes her passionate about her chosen field.

Smart cars help student get his hands dirty

April 4, 2005
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering senior Steve Velat works in a lab that builds "smart cars." It's an opportunity that changed his life, he says, and he owes it to a moment of speaking up and taking initiative.

Disease scare inspires student to engineer solutions for medicine

April 4, 2005
Mad cow disease sparked an interest in graduate school for biomedical engineering Ph.D. student John Azeke. The idea of engineering solutions for problems of medicine excites him. He's now researching ways to better deliver drugs, and he's looking forward to making a career out of research.