Category: Awards

Roseanne Perez, Ed.D., the staff member behind innovative — and highly successful —  student-engagement programs at the Florida Semiconductor Institute (FSI), has won the Staff Innovation Award from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.  “Dr. Perez came up with, and led the deployment of, FSI’s statewide K–12 semiconductor education and workforce development activities,” noted Professor […]

Two University of Florida engineering professors have been recognized among the nation’s top early-career researchers for their contributions to national defense and security. 

One of the College of Engineering’s biggest supporters has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, a pinnacle for professional engineers.   The academy, known as NAE, announced this week its 2026 membership roster includes Wally Rhines, CEO and director of Texas-based Silvaco and a member of multiple advisory boards within the University of Florida’s […]

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCoE) has selected Farimah Farahmandi, PhD, as the recipient of the 2024–25 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award, recognizing the outstanding junior faculty member undergoing tenure and promotion review this past fall.

After much deliberation and planning, department leadership proudly inducted the 2025 class of the ECE Hall of Fame at a gala celebration held in Malachowsky Hall on Monday, April 21. Sachio Semmoto Chair of ECE Mark Tehranipoor led the celebration—joined by members of the inaugural class of the Hall of Fame and luminaries from the ECE Florida family—to celebrate the induction of four Electrical & Computer Engineering alumni to this august group.

The National Institutes of Health has granted ECE Assistant Professor Adam Khalifa a $1.5M New Innovator Award, securing research funding that could revolutionize invasive surgical implants and improve understanding for disease detection.

ECE Assistant Professor Farimah Farahmandi was honored to receive a 2024 Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award at the most recent conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

The UF chapters of IEEE, HKN, and WECE hosted the 2024 Spring Banquet on Tuesday, April 16 at the Reitz Union. As is traditional at the gala student-run event, both departmental awards and student-choice awards are presented to students, faculty, and staff in the department.

ECE Academic Assistant Elizabeth Rivera-Cortes has won a 2022 Division Three Superior Accomplishment Award.

ECE Distinguished Professor Jose Principe has been notified by the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that he has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow.