Category: Students

UF’s Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering is home to two national champion design teams: Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge. 

Twenty University of Florida engineering students, an ESSIE faculty member and an ESSIE administrator descended on the city center of Parma, Italy, on June 1 to begin their exciting exploration of UF in Italy —Automotive Industries to Urban Planning. 

Fabiola Y. Rodríguez, a first-year Ph.D. student at UF’s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and the Environment, is already making waves in sustainable waste management.

Eliana Rose Duarte, a recent civil engineering graduate of the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, has received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GFRP). The five-year fellowship provides outstanding students in STEM with financial support totaling $159,000 over the course of their PhD. program.     Duarte graduated in December 2024 […]

Championships keep rolling in for University of Florida ASCE chapters, as student teams won first place overall earlier this month at the ASCE Southeast Student Symposium in Athens, Ga. “UF took first out of 19 universities,” noted ASCE student chapter advisor Mark Newman, Ph.D. “Our students also made more history as the first university in […]

[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 […]

Scientists in the University of Florida’s Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences are investigating Florida’s waste management system to quantify the amount of garbage and recycling produced in Florida and evaluate the capacity of existing infrastructure to manage the state’s various waste streams.  Hannah Sackles, a doctoral student in environmental engineering sciences, is a part of […]

The University of Florida’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge team made history this year achieving its fourth consecutive win at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Southeast Student Symposium. The team placed first in key categories like Structural Efficiency and Construction Economy.  Additionally, for the first time in nearly a decade, UF’s ASCE student chapter posted […]