Category: News

Sean Meyn, Ph.D., the Robert C. Pittman Eminent Scholar Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the college’s Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award. 

Nicole Young, a beloved advisor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has won the Undergraduate Professional Advisor of the Year for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. 

Príncipe is retiring as a distinguished professor from the University of Florida after nearly 40 years as a faculty member — a faculty member who, incidentally, graduated 112 Ph.D. students (with four more in the pipeline).  

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 […]

As part of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), UF freshman Jayden Nargen traveled to Washington, D.C., for IEEE-USA’s Congressional Visit Day, joining engineers from across the country to meet with lawmakers and advocate for policies impacting research funding and STEM workforce development.

Second-year electrical engineering student Rikki DeOreo is helping fellow Gators master MATLAB as the University of Florida’s new MathWorks Student Ambassador and a peer mentor in Programming for Engineers. Through workshops, mentoring and a new MATLAB Student Club, she’s sharing her technical skills while building a supportive learning community.

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. 

Every time Texas-based tech executive Steve Blum returns to his beloved alma mater in swampy Florida, he can’t help but smile.  

Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), recently won the IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award for his outstanding leadership in computer science and engineering education. 

Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s RoboPI Laboratory are developing intelligent marine robots to explore the ocean, monitor ecosystems and help protect critical underwater infrastructure.