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As part of his goal to enhance UF’s overall student experience and interdisciplinary research impact, UF President Ben Sasse established that, for the first time, $50 million in legislative funding would be directed toward competitively selected strategic projects. These are some of the research projects spearheaded by the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.
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Eric Du, Ph.D., professor, ESSIE
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University of Florida faculty and students will help advance the field of industrialized construction engineering with $2.5 million in strategic funding from the office of UF President Ben Sasse. Working together, UF’s College of Design, Construction and Planning, and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering will seek to revolutionize how the world conceptualizes, designs, and builds affordable and resilient buildings and civil infrastructure.
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University of Florida faculty members with a wide range of expertise in space-related research are coming together to form the UF Space Mission Institute, with $2.5 million in support from UF President Ben Sasse’s strategic funding initiative. The institute, managed by UF Research, will be a hub in which scientists and scholars from across UF – including those from the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the College of Pharmacy, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – can collaborate, conduct research, and innovate.
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A groundbreaking AI-Powered Athletics project is underway at the University of Florida, thanks to $2.5 million in support from UF President Ben Sasse’s Strategic Funding Initiative. The AI-Powered Athletics piece of the initiative is a partnership between the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the University Athletic Association (UAA). The project will help build an infrastructure to enable AI-powered athletics based on the wearable sensor and health data of student-athletes. Funded projects may generate pilot data and initial publications that lead to large-scale research proposals for federal agencies.
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Sea otters’ homecoming to their former habitat in a Central California estuary has delivered a remarkable payoff in conservation efforts — erosion of the area’s creekbanks and marsh edges have slowed on average by 69%. In a study published in Nature, scientists show that the reintroduction of sea otters, some of the Elkhorn Slough’s top predators, is an ecological success. Despite facing intense stress from excess nutrients, changes in water flow and rising sea levels that drive high erosion levels of the salt marsh’s edges, this estuary’s health is on the rise thanks to the otters’ insatiable appetite for marsh crabs.
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The University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, in partnership with NASA, is making a significant contribution to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission- a groundbreaking endeavor that the European Space Agency (ESA) has now formally adopted. UF is the only academic institution in the United States to be awarded a contract to develop hardware that will fly on the LISA mission.
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Sachio Semmoto, Ph.D.
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Renowned UF alumnus Sachio Semmoto, Ph.D., pioneering serial entrepreneur and futurist, was the guest of honor in a recent ceremony at the Malachowsky Hall for Data Science and Information Technology for the official creation of the Sachio Semmoto Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. The named department chair is the first of its kind for the College, honoring Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D., the Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Chair Professor in Cybersecurity, as its inaugural holder.
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It started as a class project for University of Florida senior engineering students, and it became a viable solution for soldiers who needed an easier, faster, and safer way to camouflage their vehicles on the battlefield. Students from Matthew J. Traum’s mechanical engineering capstone course received real-world training last year when they partnered with peers at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Civil-Military Innovation Institute, or CMI2, to design and produce a vehicle camouflage deployer for the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
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Few celestial events capture the imagination quite like a total solar eclipse, and the one on April 8 promises to be particularly remarkable. Alicia K. Petersen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida, is shedding light on the significance of this upcoming cosmic phenomenon. “During a total solar eclipse, we’re presented with a unique opportunity to observe the solar corona,” said Petersen, who is an expert on space weather and solar physics. “This is crucial because the corona is typically difficult to study due to the overwhelming brightness of the sun itself.”
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Kevin Butler, Director of Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research and a University Term Professor, breaks down the potential threats from ransomware attacks and how researchers from the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research developed some of the first solutions for protecting against this threat and continue to work on solutions as the attacks become more advanced.
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Dr. Wesley Bolch and UF, along with collaborators at Johns Hopkins University, were awarded an NIH National Cancer Institute project grant of $12.9 million to conduct studies into the imaging, dosimetry, and radiobiology of cancer radiopharmaceuticals labeled with alpha-particle emitters. Bolch will work with UF faculty members Dr. John Aris from the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Dr. Rowan Milner, and Dr. Maria Von Chamier from the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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We are thrilled to announce that five exceptional Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering alumni have been honored with the university’s “40 under 40” awards. These remarkable individuals exemplify the spirit of innovation and leadership, making significant contributions to their respective fields. Their achievements reflect the excellence of our college and showcase the enduring impact of The Gator Nation, both locally and on a global scale.
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Since Spring 2023 — when several prominent tech thought-leaders issued a public plea for a pause to the progression of certain AI language models, fearing a Pandora’s Box — the U.S. has been agonizing over the rightful place of artificial intelligence in our daily lives. But while Congress and regulatory agencies wrestle with setting policy to avoid unintended consequences, Dr. Parisa Rashidi’s verdict for the healthcare sector is “Let’s go.”
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A diverse team led by three ECE Florida faculty members is set to receive funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and fabricate dynamic pressure sensors capable of performing at temperatures upwards of 800 °C (1472 °F), over a factor of 6X higher than any integrated pressure sensor currently in use. The $6.6M project, funded as part of the DARPA High Operational Temperature Sensors (HOTS) program, seeks to enable all manners of electronics and sensors that would be integral to industrial, military, and space applications. The core team is comprised of Dr. Mark Sheplak (lead PI), Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian, and Dr. Philip Feng.
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Pamela Dickrell, Ph.D.
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As engineering programs integrate more makerspace activities in classrooms, it’s become essential to better prepare peer mentors so they can help students learn effectively in these spaces. To bridge this gap, Pamela Dickrell, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and Instructional Professor with the Department of Engineering Education (EED), aims to develop an open-source modular program for training peer mentors using a three-year grant funded under the National Science Foundation’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Directorate (NSF IUSE).
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Dean's Excellence Fund
Gifts made to the Dean’s Excellence Fund help students through experiential learning opportunities that emphasize team-based learning, hands-on projects, student-organized competitions, internships, and externships to develop their leadership and innovation skills.
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