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UCF Researcher Leads $3.3 Million Project to Develop Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Simulators

July 25, 2023
A University of Central Florida engineering professor is leading a $3.3 million project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to research floating offshore wind turbines. “My goal is to model floating offshore wind turbines and use the model to explore design improvements while concurrently investigating new ideas for control and sensing, a concept […]

7 MAE Faculty Awarded with Promotion and Tenure

July 18, 2023
One-hundred-forty-three UCF faculty members, including seven from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, recently achieved significant career milestones in earning promotions and tenure for the 2022-23 cycle. The approved faculty­ — 93 for promotion, 49 for promotion and tenure and one for tenure — underwent a rigorous evaluation of their work and performance by […]

CECS Announces Winners of Latin American and Caribbean Scholarship

July 7, 2023
The College of Engineering and Computer Science now offers a scholarship to support graduate students from Latin America and the Caribbean. The CECS Latin American and Caribbean Scholarship, offered in partnership with UCF Global, is a multi-semester award that provides tuition assistance for students from LAC countries who choose to pursue specific master’s degrees in […]

Kapat Reappointed as Trustee Chair for 2023-28

July 6, 2023
A new professor has been named and two others reappointed to prestigious UCF trustee chair professorships that recognize faculty with national and international reputations for excellence and with extraordinary accomplishments in teaching, research and service. New trustee chair Ayman Abouraddy and reappointees Aristide Dogariu and Jayanta Kapat are among a handful of faculty members to […]

UCF Celebrates International Women in Engineering Day, Featuring the BRaIN Lab

June 23, 2023
In the BRaIN Lab at UCF, researchers are working to understand how the brain and body work together to control how humans move their bodies. Called the Biomechanics, Rehabilitation, and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (BRaIN) Lab, students and faculty use electroencephalography (EEG) technology to measure the electrical activity of the brain during movement. But something even more is […]