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‘It’s been a great journey’: ECE icon Jose Príncipe retires after nearly 40 years

Monday April 20, 2026

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).  
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FSI’s Perez honored for student-engagement innovation

Monday April 20, 2026

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 […]
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From the Swamp to Capitol Hill, UF student talks engineering with lawmakers

Monday April 20, 2026

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.
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Meet Rikki DeOreo, MATLAB’s new ambassador and peer mentor

Thursday April 9, 2026

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 ECE faculty earn prestigious Young Investigator Awards

Friday April 3, 2026

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. 
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Gator engineer and Autodesk executive Steve Blum will never stop chomping

Monday March 30, 2026

Every time Texas-based tech executive Steve Blum returns to his beloved alma mater in swampy Florida, he can’t help but smile.  
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ECE chair wins prestigious Taylor L. Booth Education Award

Friday March 27, 2026

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. 
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UF’s RoboPI lab making waves with marine robots

Monday March 9, 2026

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.
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ECE ‘star Gator’ Farimah Farahmandi wins 40 Under 40 alumni award

Thursday March 5, 2026

Farimah Farahmandi, Ph.D., Walden C. Rhines Endowed Professor for Hardware Security and associate director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity, has received UF’s 40 Under 40 alumni award. In April, Farahmandi will also receive the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from UF’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering.  
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Researchers unveil gigahertz resonances in nanoscale drumheads at room temperature 

Friday February 13, 2026

From smartphones to quantum computers, modern technology depends on moving information quickly and efficiently. Now, scientists have found a way to control vibrations at gigahertz (GHz) speeds to serve as ultra-fast bridges between mechanical, microwave and optical signals. 
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