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MAE Capstone Spin-Off RaveBio Scores $10K in UF’s Big Idea Competition 

April 27, 2023

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 […]

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L-R: Sean Niemi, Ph.D., instructional assistant professor in MAE; Derrick Smith (Autodesk); Amy Marks (Autodesk, UF BSPR ’92), Chimay Anumba, Ph.D., dean of the UF College of Design, Construction and Planning; Steve Blum (Autodesk Executive VP and COO, UF BSEE ’87), Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E., interim dean of Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering; John Herridge (Autodesk); Katie Basinger-Ellis, Ph.D., instructional assistant professor in ISE

Renowned engineering, architecture and construction tool company Autodesk invests in two UF colleges to drive student success and innovative integration

April 24, 2023

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

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Alachua County Robotics Teams Advance to Worlds

April 13, 2023

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

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Add Nickel to Ceria for Solar Syngas at just 700°C

March 30, 2023

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 […]

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3D-printing the brain’s blood vessels with silicone could improve and personalize neurosurgery

March 28, 2023

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

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Figure: The CHF obtained in all test cases is normalized using the maximum measured CHF of the specific liquid at the corresponding pressure and is plotted as a function of the characteristic length (Lh = w) non-dimensionalized using the capillary length of the liquid (Lc). Marker shapes represent different surfaces, face colors represent liquids, and the edge colors represent the experimental pressures.

Grad student Suhas Tamvada achieves influential discovery in heat transfer

March 23, 2023

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 […]

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Team led by UF MAE professor Amor Menezes set to begin momentous space biomanufacturing mission

March 14, 2023

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 […]

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UF Announced as Hub to Expand Machine Tools Workforce Training Centers in Florida

February 21, 2023

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, […]

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Join our Challengers as they Stand up and Holler this GIVING DAY

February 10, 2023

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 […]

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Radio Controlled Airplanes Built by UF’s EAS4710 Capstone Senior Design Students Take Flight

February 7, 2023

UF Aerospace Engineering Capstone students brought to life aircraft previously only imagined on-paper. Taking to the skies, these real aircraft flights culminated a new initiative by Dr. Ting Dong, a UF MAE instructional assistant professor to add a build / realization component to her EAS4710 Aircraft Design course. Previously, Dr. Dong’s senior design students produced […]

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