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The essence of a Gator engineer: WGI co-founder named UF Distinguished Alumnus 

April 30, 2025

David Wantman, co-founder of a successful South Florida-based consulting, planning, surveying and design firm and 1990 UF engineering graduate, has been selected as a Distinguished Alumnus from the University of Florida.

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Congratulations to the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering faculty and staff awardees for 2024-2025!

2024-2025 awards for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

April 23, 2025

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering presents its annual awards to faculty, staff, and students for the 2024-2025 academic year on April 23, 2025. These awards celebrate the excellence and fundamental values of our college.

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Meet UF Engineering’s 2025 Hall of Fame inductees

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.

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40 Gators Under 40

Engineering alumni honored in 2025 “40 Gators Under 40” awards

March 24, 2025

Four exceptional Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering alumni have been honored with the University of Florida’s “40 Gators Under 40” awards.

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UF civil engineering teams dominate in Georgia

March 17, 2025

Championships keep rolling in for University of Florida ASCE chapters, as student teams won first place overall earlier this month at the ASCE Southeast Student Symposium in Athens, Ga. “UF took first out of 19 universities,” noted ASCE student chapter advisor Mark Newman, Ph.D. “Our students also made more history as the first university in […]

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Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2025 Superior Accomplishment Awardees

March 6, 2025

Congratulations to the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2025 Superior Accomplishment Award honorees for 2025!

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Jain named Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

February 21, 2025

Nian Wang, J. R. (Rip) Graves Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair at UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), and Piyush Jain, Exxon Mobil Gator Alumni Faculty Endowed Professor and associate professor in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors, the organization announced today. They […]

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Superstar UF iGEM Team Wins Gold in Paris with Biomanufactured Organoid Models

February 3, 2025

The UF Chapter of iGEM dazzled 2024 Grand Jamboree judges, earning a gold medal for their research into sepsis, a life-threatening condition that results from the body’s dysregulated response to infection.

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UF’s Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers named one of the strongest national chapters

An ‘everything organization’

January 30, 2025

UF’s Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers named one of the strongest national chapters.

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