Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Student Fahad Nabid Awarded Prestigious NDSEG Fellowship
In a remarkable achievement underscoring his academic prowess and dedication to advancing aerospace engineering, Fahad Nabid, a freshman graduate student at the University of Florida, has been awarded the highly prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for 2024. This fellowship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, aims to support exceptional graduate students…
Engineering students solve soldiers’ problem at lightning speed
It started as a class project for University of Florida senior engineering students, and it became a viable solution for soldiers who needed an easier, faster, and safer way to camouflage their vehicles on the battlefield.
Together UF’s Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Animal Sciences Departments are Creating a New Ruminant Digestion Simulation Apparatus for Cow Feedstuff Evaluation
ME Capstone students are collaborating with Dr. Antonio Faciola, an associate professor of animal sciences at UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), to redesign legacy cow digestion simulators pivotal for ruminant nutrition research. This interdisciplinary partnership leverages the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department’s EML4502 course, taught by senior lecturer Dr. Matthew J. Traum. In…
Celebrating Black Engineer Legacies
This month we celebrate Black engineers of UF MAE and the legacies they are creating for future students and engineers of color. Follow along as we spotlight MAE engineers, their work, and their experiences.
Undergraduate Senior Design Capstone Presents to Retired NASA Engineers
On Wednedsay, December 6th, Dr. Persad’s undergraduate senior design capstone group presented at the Nuclear Sciences Building. This is a culminating design course for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering students, and they worked to develop a conceptual design for external clients. This semester, student teams worked with the Astro Restoration Project (ARP), a not-for-profit, all volunteer organization,…
Students Feel Sonic Shocks Form on their Fingers using this Low-Cost Throttle Body Flow Bench
Carl Wisniewski did not set out to create a sonic shock wave that students could touch, but he inadvertently created one as part of his UF MAE undergraduate honors thesis research. Wisniewski, a recent UF MAE graduate now enrolled in the MS program, sought an inexpensive means to characterize choked flow through throttle bodies, also called…
SOLAR GATORS MAKE HISTORY LANDING FIRST PLACE AT THE 2023 FORMULA SUN GRAND PRIX
After six years of hard work and competitions, UF’s SolarGators placed first in the 2023 Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix, held June 27–July 2 at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka, KS. The student-run team, sponsored in part by both the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE), drove…
As SubjuGator prepares for RoboSub 2023, a look back at NaviGator’s trip to the 2022 Maritime RobotX Challenge
Last November, the NaviGator team from the UF Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL) traveled to the land down under for the Maritime RobotX Challenge in Sydney, Australia. The competition, which involves boats being controlled by integrated autonomous robotic systems completing tasks on the water, featured teams from 20 universities in eight different countries. Prizes are awarded in…
Grad student Suhas Tamvada achieves influential discovery in heat transfer
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 Moghaddam…
Radio Controlled Airplanes Built by UF’s EAS4710 Capstone Senior Design Students Take Flight
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 CAD…