June 3, 2021
For 19 UCF students, the dream of working for NASA came true this past semester as they completed internships at Kennedy Space Center through NASA’s Pathways Program. The program gives qualifying university students an opportunity to work at the space agency, where every semester UCF has students working in everything from engineering to accounting. The students […]
June 3, 2021
As we usher out a new class of graduates ready to take on the world, graduation brings back my own memories from decades ago – the pure elation of achieving the only goal I had meticulously laid out for myself since I was 7: to become an engineer. Yes, the journey had an unanticipated rocky […]
June 1, 2021
This year’s UCF National Science Foundation CAREER grant recipients are finding innovative and bold new ways to solve challenges that could be game changers in healthcare and engineering. The awardees are: Samik Bhattacharya, College of Engineering and Computer Science Robert Steward Jr., College of Engineering and Computer Science NSF uses the awards to recognize early […]
May 21, 2021
A recent graduate of UCF’s mechanical engineering program was recognized this spring by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program for his work that combines engineering, health and art to improve people’s lives. Zachary Whitacre ’21 was selected for the honor from a highly competitive pool of over 12,000 applications nationwide. Whitacre has spent […]
May 18, 2021
A team of eight University of Central Florida aerospace engineering students designed, built and flew the best remote-controlled aircraft in the United States in an international competition sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Besting 90 teams that made it to the final round of AIAA’s 2021 Design Build Fly competition, UCF’s aircraft […]