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… Read More
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Dr. Traum Elected a Sigma Xi Director
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… Read More
MAE Spin-Off AIBL Tech Advances to the UF Big Idea Competition Sweet 16 toward Commercializing AI-Enabled Prosthetic Arms
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,… Read More
GatorKits Lab Researchers Present “Live” Baby Gators! Poster at Florida Online Innovation Summit
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… Read More
Together UF’s Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Animal Sciences Departments are Creating a New Ruminant Digestion Simulation Apparatus for Cow Feedstuff Evaluation.
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… Read More
Dr. Traum Honored with the 2024 Santa Fe College TRIO Community Partnership Award
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… Read More
UF MAE alum Juliana Mishur to have paper published by ASME, will present research at IMECE
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… Read More
Students Feel Sonic Shocks Form on their Fingers using this Low-Cost Throttle Body Flow Bench
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… Read More
STEMTank Summer Camp Receives ASEE PreK-12 Commission Spotlight
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… Read More
US Army 3rd Infantry Division performs camouflage demonstrations at UF for ME Capstone students
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… Read More