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Dr. Matthew Traum, Senior Lecturer and Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has been named one of the 11 awardees of this year’s [J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative Award (https://www.stevensinitiative.org/2024-jcsvei-grantees/) for his Hands-on Energy and Thermo-fluids (HEAT) Program. This year, this extremely competitive grant program supports Virtual Exchanges between […]

On July 1, 2024, UF Center for Engineering Design Associate Director Dr. Matthew J. Traum began a 3-year term as an elected Director of Sigma Xi, the international research honor society. Dr. Traum will represent US Southeast region on the Society’s board.

Exercising grit, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit, a team of UF capstone senior design students advanced to the Sweet 16 of UF’s prestigious Big Idea Business Plan Competition. The team of Meredith Giangaspro, Aidan Henriksen, Yuliia Hrynchenko, John Mallari, Haydn Rhodes, and Jake Rosken is forming AIBL Tech, a company that integrates AI-driven real-time object recognition […]

GatorkKits Lab undergraduate researchers Austin Thomas, Katherine Canev, and Lily Carlson showcased their work in a poster presentation at the 2024 Florida Online Innovation Summit held at the University of Central Florida. The summit gathered educators, pedagogical researchers, and Ed Tech industry experts from across the southeast to discuss and explore cutting-edge advancements in online […]

ME Capstone students are collaborating with Dr. Antonio Faciola, an associate professor of animal sciences at UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), to redesign legacy cow digestion simulators pivotal for ruminant nutrition research. This interdisciplinary partnership leverages the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department’s EML4502 course, taught by senior lecturer Dr. Matthew J. Traum. […]

Dr. Matthew J. Traum has been honored with the 2024 Santa Fe College TRIO Community Partnership Award for his outstanding contributions to the STEMTank program. This prestigious award recognizes Dr. Traum’s five-year collaboration with the Santa Fe College (SF) TRIO office in providing transformative summer camp experiences for disadvantaged high school students in north-central Florida. […]

When in-person classes became one of the many aspects of normal life that fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic, most people grumbled and resigned themselves to a period of languishing in a mire of pajama pants and low productivity. Juliana Mishur, meanwhile, saw an promising opportunity and followed a hunch that has led her to […]

Carl Wisniewski did not set out to create a sonic shock wave that students could touch, but he inadvertently created one as part of his UF MAE undergraduate honors thesis research. Wisniewski, a recent UF MAE graduate now enrolled in the MS program, sought an inexpensive means to characterize choked flow through throttle bodies, also […]

The Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department’s award-winning STEMTank summer camp received spotlight recognition by the PreK-12 Commission of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to coincide with ASEE’s annual conference. The spotlight announcement is posted at the ASEE PreK-12 Commission’s website: STEMTank is a hybrid delivery summer program funded by the U.S. Department […]

A group of US Army personnel from the 3rd Infantry Division (3ID) traveled to Gainesville from Fort Stewart, Georgia, in February to interact with UF Capstone students, perform vehicle camouflage demonstrations, and discuss the collaboration between them, UF, and the Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2). This collaboration is about bringing soldiers’ ideas for military innovation to […]