Working across disciplines with wildlife biologists at UF, graduate students in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering have developed a 14-pound aircraft with a high-resolution digital camera that can photograph and help document nests without disturbing bird populations. Read more about this and other specialty projects that the MAE department faculty and students have collaborated on in the Gainesville …
Engineering team claims $25,000 in UF Big Idea Business Plan Competition
Published: April 29th, 2014 GAINESVILLE, Fla. —Three engineering students whose company developed a portable water purification device that uses ultraviolet light to sterilize water were awarded $25,000 for winning the UF Big Idea Business Plan Competition on Friday. Daniel Blood, Rob Damitz and Erica Gonzaga, co-founders of aqUV, outlasted a field of 140 entrants to claim the grand prize. The …
Congratulations Gator Engineering Class of 2014!
The Class of 2014 had a personalized commencement experience, unprecedented in college history. Their speaker, Subroto Bagchi, co-founder and chairman of Mindtree, created an interactive address, based on feedback he solicited from students earlier this year. Following Mr. Bagchi’s commencement speech, both the female and male student speakers – chosen to represent the student body – addressed the class. Click …
Biomedical Engineering Graduates Its First Undergraduate Class
The College of Engineering is making history this May as it graduates its first class of undergraduate students from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. Generous gifts from the Pruitt family helped to grow a thriving biomedical engineering (BME) department on the UF campus over the course of a decade. Then in 2012, after several years of …
Baby Gator class concludes engineering is cool after UF students visit
The University of Florida’s American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Engineering Ambassadors (EA) partnered with Baby Gator Child Development Center this week to inspire the next generation of Gator Engineers. With the guidance of AIAA and EA, forty 4-to-5-year-olds enrolled at the Lake Alice campus participated in hands-on experiments –including egg drops, slime observation and model rocket launches …
Gator Engineering among nation’s leaders in graduate degrees and diversity
The University of Florida continues to lead the nation as one of the top 10 colleges awarding graduate degrees in engineering, and this week the Gator Engineering alumni base will expand significantly. According to the latest Engineering Workforce Commission figures, UF is ranked #9 in it’s awarding of engineering doctoral degrees, and #5 in master’s degrees. By the end of …
Gators win first place in hands-on engineering competition
Our student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers won first place at the 2014 ASCE Southeast Regional Conference. Gator teams took home the trophy for first place overall, in addition to earning first place in both the Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe competitions. The competitions at the ASCE Conference are designed to give civil engineering students an opportunity …
Engineering student group wins first place in competition
The University of Florida’s student chapter of Materials Advantage – a program for materials science and engineering majors – placed first in the TMS Materials Bowl on Feb. 16. The team – Glenn Bean, Hunter Henderson, Peter Feldtmann and Steven Chiu – defeated 11 other university teams in the Jeopardy-style trivia competition with single elimination rounds. “I feel great about …
EDGE program facilitates graduate studies globally
For William Huffman, engineering is more than his chosen career path. It’s the pursuit that has led him across the globe. He utilized his civil engineering degree by joining the Peace Corps, a calling that brought him to Kenya in 1976 designing and installing community water systems. Thirty-four years later, it brought Huffman and his wife, Ruth, to Mali and …
Art sparks creative aspects for engineering students
https://youtu.be/iBwW_tFcbOg Engineering is considered by some to be a rigid academic discipline, but problem-solving requires creativity. Enter Elif Akcali, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, who expanded the mindsets of her students this past semester with two major projects aimed at introducing them to the world of artistic expression. “Creativity and problem solving are defining characteristics that make …