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[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”30″ gal_title=”UF Concrete Canoe Before ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition”] GAINESVILLE, Fla (June 12, 2024) — The University of Florida’s Concrete Canoe team hopes to hang another championship canoe in The Pit. The team of 12 students will compete this month in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Engineering Championships at Brigham Young […]

The University of Florida’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge team has made history. For the fourth year in a row, the team has won at the American Institute of Steel Construction’s 2024 Student Steel Bridge Competition National Finals.  No other team has won national championships for three consecutive years, let alone four. The UF team claimed its […]

The University of Florida’s American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter achieved back-to-back first place finishes in the regionals for Concrete Canoe, Steel Bridge, and overall competitions, marking the second time in almost a decade they have achieved this, echoing their similar success in 2014 and 2015. Concrete Canoe The UF’s ASCE Concrete Canoe (UFCC) […]

This article was original written by Ines Aviles-Spadoni. The University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI), housed in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, announced the grand opening of its I-STREET™ Living Lab on Friday. Guests from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), the City of Gainesville (COG) Transportation Department, and key industry partners joined UF […]

Water is essential for life. And life on Earth as we know it hinges on our collective ability and commitment to safeguard and preserve the purity of water – a vital resource that unites us all.   This Earth Day, we spotlight three researchers from the University of Florida’s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment […]

This article was originally published on the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s New Engineer news site. We are thrilled to announce that five exceptional Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering alumni have been honored with the university’s “40 under 40” awards. These remarkable individuals exemplify the spirit of innovation and leadership, making significant contributions to their […]

University of Florida faculty and students will help advance the field of industrialized construction engineering with $2.5 million in strategic funding from the office of UF President Ben Sasse.  Working together, UF’s College of Design, Construction and Planning, and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering will seek to revolutionize how the world conceptualizes, designs, and […]

Antarpreet S. Jutla, Ph.D., an associate professor, has received the Charles S. Falkenberg Award sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). He was nominated for his groundbreaking interdisciplinary research on understanding transmission dynamics of infectious pathogens in humans and environmental systems.    This award was named after the computer […]

Nov. 8 marks First Generation Day, as part of the University of Florida’s First-Generation college students’ weeklong celebration. This was selected as the date for the annual National First-Generation College Celebration to honor the anniversary of the signing of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) worked on a […]