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Tongyao Wu grew up in Fuzhou, China, a coastal city nestled amid mountains and rivers. The natural world developed in beauty all around him, sparking his curiosity about everything under Fuzhou’s warm sun.   “I was naturally curious and enjoyed understanding how things worked,” said Wu, now a graduate researcher with the University of Florida’s Department […]

A College of Engineering master’s student has earned the HiPerGator Early Career Award for his contributions to artificial intelligence research through the Florida Institute for National Security (FINS).   

Two University of Florida teams earned top honors and a combined $35,000 in awards at the Mission Autonomy Hackathon, a national competition hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Vanderbilt University in Nashville.  

A student team from the Florida Institute of National Security (FINS) took top honors late last month at Gator Hack, the University of Florida’s 2025 AI Days hackathon. 

Asif Iftekhar Omi, an ECE Ph.D. student working with Dr. Baibhab Chatterjee, has been selected to receive the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications, among the most prestigious of accolades in microwave engineering.

Following their national championship in 2023, UF student racing team Solar Gators placed fourth in the 2024 Formula Sun Grand Prix and qualified, for the first time in their history, to compete in the Electrek American Solar Challenge.

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.

UF’s SolarGators placed first in the 2023 Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix, held June 27–July 2 at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka, KS.

A team of ECE and MAE students have traveled to Topeka, Kansas to compete in the 2022 Formula Sun Grand Prix hosted at the Heartland Motorsports Park.

Senior Design Expo is a chance for ECE students to present their capstone design projects. Usually created in teams of two, these projects are the culmination of the undergraduate ECE experience.