UCF Modeling and Simulation Receives $2.6 Million Presagis Gift
University of Central Florida computer modeling and simulation students can continue to develop, test and train on the most advanced software used in aerospace and defense industries, thanks to a...
View ArticleBudding Partnership
Michael Boyd, ’05, doesn’t remember the first time he met Michael Williamson, ’07, but he knew they’d become great friends after a discussion about a soccer match on TV spilled out into the parking lot...
View ArticleUCF Students Among 100 Finalists to Live – and Die – on Mars
If all goes according to plan, UCF graduate student George W. Hatcher will die on Mars. Hatcher is one of two University of Central Florida doctoral students selected as finalists for a one-way mission...
View ArticleColor Changes Everything: UCF Helps Develop Tool to Aid Doctors Looking for...
Like real estate, gene expression is all about location, location, location – and a team of University of Central Florida researchers has just helped create a colored genetic map that doctors studying...
View ArticleUCF Professor to Perform with 3-D Printed Instruments in N.Y.
UCF professor Scott F. Hall will combine music and the emerging world of 3-D printing Friday night when he performs on some unconventional instruments at the 3D Print Design Show in New York. Hall and...
View ArticleSeminole County Students Get Hands-On STEM Experience at UCF
How can we build the STEM research pipeline, and what does it take to create STEM career pathways for high school students? Thanks to the University of Central Florida’s leadership in the fields of...
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Engineering Student’s Junk Pile Leads to New Hope for Child with Disability
A UCF aerospace engineering student used his “junk pile” at home to change the life of a 5-year-old. David Shamblin used an old 13-inch LCD screen from his “junk pile” to create a box gadget at home,...
View ArticleUCF Alumni Association Presents 2015 Michelle Akers Award
The UCF Alumni Association honored Limbitless Solutions with its 2015 Michelle Akers Award at the annual Black & Gold Gala on Oct. 22. Limbitless Solutions, which manufactures personalized bionics...
View ArticleUCF Alumni Association and Colleges Present 2015 Professional Achievement Awards
UCF’s alumni association and colleges honored 11 Knights with Professional Achievement Awards at the Black & Gold Gala on Oct. 22. This year’s celebration was the 35th year the alumni association...
View ArticleToward a More Scientifically Literate Public
As a society we do a terrible job of educating our children to become scientifically literate. Sure, we have STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programs throughout the country, and...
View ArticleThe Best Graduate Research in the State
Some of the state’s best graduate students came together April 22 for the third ever Statewide Graduate Student Research Symposium at the University of Florida. The University of Central Florida had...
View ArticlePeruvian Engineering Grads First to Receive Degrees in UCF Program
Until this week, 12 Peruvian engineering students had never set foot on the University of Central Florida campus, but on Saturday they will graduate as full-fledged Knights in a first-of-its-kind...
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Building a Pathway to Engineering for Our Daughters – Brick by Brick
As a father of young elementary and middle school-aged kids, I’m also curious to know exactly how my undergrad students came to be interested in mechanical engineering. An exchange with a UCF student...
View ArticlePsychology Professor Selected as IEEE Fellow
Peter Hancock, a UCF Psychology Pegasus Professor and University Trustee Chair, has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow. His appointment, beginning January 2017, is...
View ArticleUCF Forum Opinion Series to begin 6th Year with New Columnists
The UCF Forum opinion series on Wednesday will begin its sixth year of columnists sharing their commentary on social issues, ethics, life lessons, personal observations, world affairs and other topics....
View ArticleEngineering our Future: The Search for Solutions
We are bombarded on a daily basis by both old and new problems – crises that have either been many years in the making or have risen up almost instantaneously. Where should we look for solutions? The...
View ArticleUCF Engineering Students to Showcase Inventions
Assistive technology that helps people do anything from carrying luggage through an airport with a smartphone, to taking large-scale inventory with drones, to learning a second language with a virtual...
View ArticleBreaking Barriers in STEM
With more 31,000 members in the United States and abroad, the National Society of Black Engineers may be one of the largest student-run organizations in the world. Since 1975, it has been carefully...
View ArticlePamela McCauley Defies Odds as a Female Engineer
As a part of the less than 1 percent of black women engineers in the United States, there is no question Pamela McCauley stands out. McCauley, who serves as director of UCF’s Ergonomics Laboratory in...
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Engineering Profession Must Re-establish Relationship of Trust Following...
This past month has been very disheartening for me as an engineer. A confluence of national events of catastrophic failures and stories of inadequate design decisions have shined a negative light on...
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