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McMullen Uses 3D Audio Rendering and Perception to Aid Firefighters

Kyla McMullen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, believes the use of 3D sounds can help firefighters find their way when visual conditions are impeded. With a system developed by McMullen, the responder would hear unique 3D audio cues […]

UF Mobilizes Campus, Exactech Expertise to Make Vital COVID-19 Nasal Swabs

When University of Florida Health needed a massive supply of nasal swabs for expanded COVID-19 testing, the solution was right on campus and just across town. It came from Forrest J. Masters, Ph.D., P.E., a professor and the associate dean for research and facilities at UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Working with the 3D printing lab […]

Nvidia’s DGX A100 System Packs a Record Five petaFLOPS of Power

At its virtual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia launched its new Ampere graphics architecture — and with it, the most powerful GPU ever made: The DGX A100. It’s the largest 7nm chip ever made, offering 5 petaFLOPS in a single node and the ability to handle 1.5 TB of data per second. Of course, unless you’re doing data science or […]

Gunduz Inducted Into Prestigious UF Graduate Honor Society

Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering associate professor, has been selected for induction into the 2020 class of the UF Graduate School Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The Bouchet Society, named for the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in the United States (in physics at Yale in 1876), […]

Novel Peer-to-Peer Car Charging System Proposes to Automate, Mobilize EV Charging

While electric vehicles (EVs) are a critical part of envisioning a future without the internal combustion engine (ICE), there is still much work to be done before EVs are a practical means of long-distance travel in the United States. Current U.S. infrastructure and limited battery capacities have proved to be the limiting factors. A novel […]

UF MSE Researchers Discover Potential Pathway for Bone Growth

The discovery came while evaluating a synthetic polymer substrate as a potential cell-growth platform. The cells were performing modestly on the new surface, but to get them to both attach to the synthetic material and actually thrive they typically need at least one of a special set of proteins to also be present, namely fibronectin, […]

UF Engineers Develop HVAC Powered by Multiple Energy Sources

Saeed Moghaddam, Ph.D., Knox T. Millsaps professor of the UF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, along with industry and organizational partners, has received a $1.89M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The group will be developing a breakthrough cooling and heating system based on a technology invented at UF’s Nanostructured Energy Systems Laboratories […]

Assistant Professor Develops a Rapid Point-of-Care Detection Technology for SARS-Cov-2

Piyush Jain, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of UF Health Cancer Center, and his Ph.D. student Long Nguyen have developed a CRISPR-based, paper-based, rapid detection technology that can detect SARS-CoV-2 cDNA in as little as 5-10 minutes or SARS-CoV-2 RNA in as low as 30-60 minutes without the need of expensive […]

UF Professor Elected American Institute of Chemical Engineers Fellow

University of Florida‘s Chemical Engineering professor, Richard B. Dickinson, Ph.D., was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). This honor is the organization’s highest grade of membership and is awarded to members in recognition of significant professional accomplishments and contributions in chemical engineering. Dr. Dickinson’s research applies engineering principles to study the behavior of living […]