Alumni

Eduardo Divo ‘98PhD decided to attend UCF on a whim. Although he had offers from prestigious universities such as RPI and MIT, he had a hunch that UCF would be a better fit. That hunch paid off. Nearly 30 years later, Divo has built a rich and rewarding history with the institution that gave him […]

University of Central Florida’s Limbitless Solutions is moving forward with its patented hands-free wheelchair technology. The technology allows patients with limited mobility to use their facial muscles to control their wheelchairs. This is done using electromyography sensors that are placed on a patient’s temporalis muscles to control a wheelchair or vehicle. When a user clenches […]

Abhishek Sastri ’20 built a business on cooling technology for high-performance computers. Now, the UCF mechanical engineering alumnus plans to take the business one step further by developing cooling technology for data centers around the world. The coolant is unlike anything created on Earth. It’s created in microgravity, and has already received recognition from Blue Origin. Sastri’s company, […]

UCF Alumni is pleased to announce its 30 Under 30 Alumni Award Recipients for the Class of 2023. The stellar group of alumni comprises scientists, attorneys, teachers, financial analysts, entrepreneurs, nurses, UCF employees, graduate students and others who have launched from UCF and landed in successful careers of their dreams. Yet, despite their distance from […]

For Limbitless Solutions president and co-founder Albert Manero, his journey with prosthetics began in perhaps the most mundane way possible: stalled in traffic on the roadways near the University of Central Florida. “There was a radio interview with the gentleman who made the first 3D-printed mechanical hands,” he recalls. “And they were emailing files around […]