May 13, 2019
Robotic mowers from the universities of Central Florida and South Florida will face off at a Disney solar plant Monday in a competition for the future of industrial lawn care. Orlando Utilities Commission and Duke Energy are sponsoring several engineering teams from the universities. The utilities’ goal is to set in motion the development of […]
May 7, 2019
When mechanical engineering major Juan Sanchez enrolled at UCF in 2018, he wanted to experience something unique, something that other freshman don’t normally do. So he decided to L.E.A.R.N. Sanchez was one of 60 students who participated in the 2018-19 cohort of the L.E.A.R.N. program, which offers two tracks: one for transfer students and one […]
April 24, 2019
Two UCF students will move on to the Modo Labs’ national Ideathon 2019 competition after winning first place at the university level of the contest for their prototype-app involving mental health. The students were presented $1,000 and will have a chance to compete for $10,000 on the national stage against teams from eight other schools […]
April 19, 2019
It took Tyler Knowles and his team of fellow UCF students a few tries to figure out how to design something that would help hobbyists land their rockets more efficiently. He tried wings. He tried reverse propulsion. “We didn’t want to be shooting a flame toward the ground,” said Knowles, a 23-year-old aerospace engineering student […]
April 12, 2019
Where the classroom can provide practical and theoretical knowledge, the laboratory can put that knowledge into practice. But oftentimes students aren’t prepared to work in a lab — so Associate Scientist Julie Brisset is creating educational opportunities at the Florida Space Institute to change that. Brisset, who studies planetary sciences, joined the Department of Mechanical […]