Empowering Future Engineers with SHPE
The University of Florida chapter of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) is an extensive organization whose pillars are based on supporting and connecting students to professional, academic, and mentorship opportunities.
UF engineering team tackles spaceflight fuel challenge in zero-gravity experiment
The work aims to solve one of the most pressing technical challenges in deep space exploration: preventing the boil-off of cryogenic rocket fuels during long missions.
Tracking the fiery path of particles: UF leads combustion research
A research team led by the University of Florida is using artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to explore swarms of airborne particles to solve combustible mysteries, a study that may lead to more efficient engines and better combustion in power plants.
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Faculty Highlights
SHPE is an organization that connects students to professional, academic, and mentorship opportunities
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Research Areas
Real machines and structures are needed for our health, prosperity, and happiness. University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineers research and teach how to design and manufacture such machines and structures. The design and manufacturing techniques and methods that are developed can be applied to many industries and applications.
In today’s diverse energy landscape, next-generation energy conversion and storage technologies are key to ensuring that end users have access to reliable, efficient, resilient and green energy sources.
Fluid dynamics is the study of how fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) move and interact with each other and their surroundings, including the generation and propagation of sound waves within them.
In MAEBio, we tackle a broad diversity of biological topics, working at length-scales as large as the human body, as small as single molecules, and at all scales in between.
This group specializes on multiscale modeling and experimentation spanning a broad spectrum of material properties and their behaviors at a range of spatial, temporal, and environmental conditions. Our focus includes mechanical behavior of advanced materials utilizing state-of-the-art experimental and computational approaches.
Autonomy and robotics are fields that are focused on developing systems and devices that can operate independently, without the need for human intervention. Feedback control systems involves the use of feedback from sensors that inform a decision or algorithm that enables a process to achieve a desired outcome. Optimization seeks to maximize or minimize a user defined cost function. Often these fields are combined to form optimal control which involves determining the best action or decision to maximize or minimize a reward.
The MAE Space Research Group pushes the bounds of space technology, from Earth orbits, past the moon and Mars, to the Sun and beyond.
Thermal transport and thermodynamics are among the pillars of the modern civilization that have enabled many technologies the world currently enjoys such as thermal power plants, heating/cooling systems, and engines.
MAE Faculty Research Videos Playlist
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Our current students are tomorrow’s leaders. They are interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial. They are scientific communicators that will shape the way future generations think about engineering. These four funds were created to have direct and specific impacts. A gift to any one of them will support our entire department in encouraging students to create and lead in an immersive environment that has every ingredient for success.