Category: News

Dr. Thomas Angelini, Associate Professor in the Department of MAE, landed a $2M NSF Award called “IntBio: Functional genomic dissection of biomineralization at multiple scales using a new marine model” in collaboration with the Whitney lab. The collaborative team consists of (Martindale- cell and developmental biology, Loesgen- natural products chemistry, Wingender- biomineralization materials scientist, and […]

Dr. Bruce Carroll, Associate Professor in the Department of MAE, has two NSF awards up for negotiation. His first is the NSF IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) Engaged Student Learning Level 1 award. This project is titled MAE is Me: Equity-Focused, Evidence-Based Proactive Advising in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. This project is a collaboration with Dr. […]

Silicone-based components are an important structural ingredient in innumerable technologies and consumer goods — from electronic devices and automobiles to aircraft and medical devices. High-quality silicone printing is a specialized technological feat that currently depends on a few, very restrictive commercially available systems, using costly proprietary silicones to manufacture structures that are typically not very […]

We proudly announce today that UF has been awarded a prestigious grant from ARPA-E under COOLERCHIPS program to spearhead groundbreaking research and development aimed at dramatically increasing the energy efficiency of data centers while significantly reducing their carbon footprint. “Project Hyper-efficient Data Centers for Deep Decarbonization of Large-scale Computing” is the result of years of […]

Dr. Jacob Chung was awarded the “2023 Thermal and Fluids Engineering Award” from the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). This is the top society award from ASTFE. Dr. Chung is currently the Andrew H. Hines, Jr./Progress Energy Eminent Scholar Chair Professor at the University of Florida. Professor Chung is an exceptional researcher […]

A group of US Army personnel from the 3rd Infantry Division (3ID) traveled to Gainesville from Fort Stewart, Georgia, in February to interact with UF Capstone students, perform vehicle camouflage demonstrations, and discuss the collaboration between them, UF, and the Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2). This collaboration is about bringing soldiers’ ideas for military innovation to […]

RaveBio Inc., a biotech equipment startup spun out from the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department, beat out over 140 teams at UF’s Big Ideas business plan competition last week, winning 2nd place and a $10,000 prize.  RaveBio began in Fall 2022 as a student team in MAE’s EML4502 senior design course. The team was […]

On April 5, the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the College of Design, Construction and Planning (DCP) received a $300,000 gift from Autodesk Inc., an American multinational corporation based in San Francisco that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education and entertainment industries. Read More

Alachua County is sending four elementary teams and eight middle school teams to Dallas to compete in the VEX Robotics World Championships in April and May. Read More

Dr. Jonathan R. Scheffe, associate professor here at the MAE department, led the team behind a groundbreaking study that explored producing syngas at lower temperatures using a nickel catalyst deposited on ceria. The team’s paper, titled “Kinetic investigation of solar chemical looping reforming of methane over Ni–CeO2 at low temperature,” was published in the journal […]

A new 3D-printing technique using silicone can make accurate models of the blood vessels in your brain, enabling neurosurgeons to train with more realistic simulations before they operate, according to our recently published research. Read More

MAE graduate research assistant Suhas Tamvada has made a major discovery in the field of heat transfer, a breakthrough that addresses a question debated in nucleate boiling science for decades. The research and its findings have recently appeared in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.  Tamvada’s research, conducted alongside UF MAE’s Dr. Saeed […]

Dr. Amor Menezes is leading a team that will blaze a new and exciting trail in biomanufacturing. His team’s ambitious plans will take flight on the evening of March 14, when a payload containing their bioengineered microbes will be launched at 8:30 p.m. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station […]

The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) announced recently that it is expanding America’s Cutting Edge (ACE), a national initiative aimed at revitalizing U.S. manufacturing, to three locations in Florida, including the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida (UF). ACE, which now has regional machine tool training centers in Florida, […]

Join our Challengers as they Stand up and Holler this GIVING DAY. Make any size donation to support our MAE faculty. Stand Up & Holler: It’s Gator Nation Giving Day!? MAE – it’s our moment! Let’s leverage our incredible alumni support to win the Engineering participation competition, and to support Excellence in our classrooms! Give […]