Wed Oct 12
University of Central Florida researchers are developing materials for stopping hydrogen leaks, like the ones that have halted the launch of Artemis 1. Their work just received a significant boost with a recently announced nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The award will fund the design, synthesis, manufacturing, testing and modeling…
Thu Sep 22
three UCF students spent the summer engineering new ideas to support the military through the highly competitive National Security Innovation Network X-Force Fellowship. Through the fellowship, students are paired with a military sponsor to work on a mission-focused project that solves real-world national security issues. Out of 600 applicants, UCF’s Patrick Borgman, Amy Lebanoff ’20…
Tue Sep 20
Just one small piece of space debris can damage or disable a satellite. Much of this debris, also known as space junk, is catalogued through space-based space surveillance, which uses optical sensors to track objects in orbit that could pose a risk for collision. However, some objects can be too small to track. UCF aerospace…
Thu Sep 15
The University of Central Florida continues to uphold its reputation as a top-ranked public institution of higher education and a leader in innovation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Colleges rankings, a national list published this week that also places UCF’s engineering and computer science programs in the top 100 out of hundreds…
Tue Sep 13
Nandhini Raju ’21MS, a UCF mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate, recently won two prestigious scholarships for her work at UCF. She has been awarded the Dr. Subrato Chandra Memorial Scholarship from the College of Engineering and Computer Science for the 2022-2023 academic year and the Elisabeth M. and Winchell M. Parsons Scholarship from The American Society of Mechanical…
Tue Sep 6
UCF is part of a local collaboration selected to receive a major national investment in semiconductor research, design and manufacturing in the Central Florida region. The funding, which was announced today, is from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration through its Build Back Better Regional Challenge. Osceola County — in partnership with UCF,…
Tue Sep 6
UCF was one of seven universities to be awarded funding from NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project Space Technology Artemis Research, or M-STAR, initiative this past year. The program is designed for minority-serving institutions that develop innovative technologies to support the Artemis mission. As a result of this grant, 10 Knights had the opportunity…
Tue Aug 30
As the nation looks on this week to see the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft blast into space on its test flight, UCF faculty, students and alumni will only momentarily pause to watch the historic milestone before returning to what they do best — scientific discovery and developing the next generation of technology…
Tue Aug 23
A team of researchers led by UCF Trustee Chair Professor Mubarak Shah, professor of computer science in the UCF Center for Research in Computer Vision, will play a key role in a newly funded national effort to forge livable, safe and inclusive communities with technologies built on advances in wireless communications. This month the U.S.…
Tue Aug 23
UCF’s Perla Latorre-Suarez ’21 is among the most promising graduate students in the world who are likely to change the aerospace industry, according to Aviation Week Network. The magazine and its partners — Accenture and Hexcel — this month announced their 20 Twenties Award Class of 2022. More than 80 students were nominated from around the…
Wed Aug 10
For as long as she can remember, Laura Segarra ’22PhD has always been drawn to space, science and math. She still has her elementary school books with colorful illustrations of the universe. She laughs about almost catching the kitchen on fire during a combustion experiment. And she has vivid memories of being at her grandmother’s farm in…
Wed Aug 10
Samir Ali considers himself a builder and fixer by nature. He believes those skills are what every person needs to not make their own lives better, but to help the world around them. With such a philosophy, it’s no wonder that the mechanical engineering major was chosen to participate in the 2022 Station1 Frontiers Fellowship,…
Thu Jul 28
Nazim Muradov, research professor for Special Projects at the FSEC Energy Research Center at the University of Central Florida, was awarded the Jubilee Medal from his home country, the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan, His Excellency Khazar Ibrahim, presented the award in-person to Muradov on June 29 at FSEC ERC…
Wed Jul 27
imbitless Solutions, the UCF-based nonprofit and UCF direct support organization that creates bionic limbs for children, celebrated the eighth anniversary this month. The program has seen impressive growth in the past year, beginning with a move into a new facility in July 2021. The additional space enabled record participation by UCF undergraduate students in internships and…
Tue Jul 12
Seven University of Central Florida graduate students are currently interning at Adobe and 3M, among other leading employers thanks to fellowships supported by the National Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering Fellowship (GEM) program. The GEM program began in 1976. The public-private partnership aims to connect students from underrepresented groups with the nation’s top employers…
Tue Jul 12
On a warm Saturday morning, a group of UCF students set out on a mile-long walk across the Mojave Desert to retrieve the rocket they launched at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry 51025 Competition. For some, the walk would have been a tiring trek. But for the Knights, this was a victory lap. They just…
Thu Jun 23
UCF, the nation’s Space University, has now entered an agreement with the U.S. Space Force to help develop technology and an agile workforce ready for space. The two organizations recently signed an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) after several Space Force officials visited UCF in March. Three members — also known as Guardians — of the…
Tue Jun 14
A UCF-developed forecast model, which uses machine learning, was able to predict the spread of COVID-19 cases in Florida. Although more research is needed, the model could become useful in predicting the spread of the next big virus, which could help healthcare agencies prepare their response. Md Mamunur Rashid, a graduate researcher at UCF’s Virtual Readability…
Mon Jun 13
The U.S. National Science Foundation has named eight UCF professors 2022 NSF CAREER award recipients. All of the recipients are engineers by training who are working on interdisciplinary projects that aim to improve health or to develop new technology that promises to improve our lives. The awardees represent the most promising junior researchers in the…
Thu Jun 2
UCF computer programming students were among the winners of the prestigious North America Championship round of the 2022 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) at the University of Central Florida over Memorial Day weekend, beating dozens of the top teams on the continent to take seventh place and advance to the World Finals. This is the…