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Robot Mowers of UCF, USF Students Compete for OUC, Duke Solar Plants

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 […]

Mano a Mano with NASA

April 21, 2019
About a year ago, Sean Marrero was on a camping trip with a group of families from the Orlando area. Some of the other campers knew that Marrero, chief strategy officer for Correct Craft, worked for a boating company. “One of the dads asked if we made a boat that would work well for fishing […]

UCF Engineering Students Take on Rocketry, Fishing with Projects

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 […]