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First-year engineering students were introduced to leadership and innovation this semester through a new collaboration between the Engineering Leadership Institute and Engineering Innovation Institute. As part of the required Introduction to Engineering course, students explored their personal values, communication styles and the importance of collaboration through hands-on activities designed to show how effective leadership contributes ...

Curtis Taylor and Jeremy Waisome will help shape the next generation of engineering leaders through teaching, mentorship and research.

Renwick and his wife, Deborah (BSN, ‘77), were substantial UF engineering donors, including a $3 million gift that established the endowed Glenn and Deborah Renwick Leadership Professorship in AI and Ethics and the Renwick Faculty Fellows in AI and Research. Their donations also funded the Renwick Engineering Scholars Fund.

Former Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan returned to UF as the Fall 2025 Linda Parker Hudson Leader in Residence, sharing lessons on engineering, leadership and public service with students, faculty and College of Engineering leaders.

On February 11-12, the Engineering Leadership Institute (ELI) hosted Mr. Anthony Hucker as the Spring 2025 Linda Parker Hudson Leader-in-Residence (LIR). Mr. Hucker is an experienced CEO and highly regarded retail leader in the food industry and serves as the President and CEO of Southeastern Grocers (SEG), one of the largest conventional supermarket chains in ...

Daniel Kleinman, Founder & CEO at Seaworthy Collective, an alumnus of Engineering Innovation Institute and Leadership Institute at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, is the 2022 winner of the Prince’s Prize for Innovative Philanthropy from the Foundation Prince Albert II de Monaco and Tocqueville Foundation. Daniel is the youngest and the first winner under 30 years old of ...

Alumnus Gene Fraser Endows Teaching Professorships in the Engineering Leadership Institute

On February 27-28, 2020, Gouthami Gadamsetty (BS ISE, spring 2021) and Gantt Meredith (BS BME, spring 2021) competed fiercely and professionally with 30 other teams from top colleges around the nation. The competition, held at the Lockheed Martin Center for Leadership Excellence in Bethesda, Maryland, involved tense, timed rounds of presentations about an engineering ethics ...

UF Engineering Innovation and Leadership Institutes are jointly offering a set of “teaching modules” in select innovation and leadership topics.

UF ISE Alumni David Thomas returns to campus as the Linda Parker Hudson Engineering Leader in Residence for Fall 2018.