For years, the courtyard in front of Weil Hall, with its clock tower and time capsule, has been a work in progress.
Standing over the busy intersection of Stadium Road and Gale Lemerand Drive across from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, the tower has pride of place on the University of Florida campus but had not lived up to its potential. Refurbishment on the tower’s two existing clock faces and the design and installation of the other two faces languished as student leads graduated and new students were recruited.
But in October, through the persistence of a relentlessly positive student and his adviser, the clock tower was, for the first time, filled with four clock faces, just in time for a visit from the College of Engineering’s namesake, Herbert Wertheim, Ph.D.
Hadyn Rhodes, a master’s student in UF’s Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, spearheaded efforts to complete the tower in conjunction with his adviser, MAE Professor Mike Griffis, Ph.D. Griffis designed and installed the Log10 Clock.
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Mike Griffis, Ph.D., shares the story and significance of the clock tower’s new faces in this interview by the UF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.