Claudia Sotomayor graduated with a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on semiconductor physics and learning how chemical and electrical principles fuse together to create modern electronic devices. In the summer of 2011, the National Science Foundation Research… Read More
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MSE & NE students Attend the USA Science and Engineering Festival
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NE Grad named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy
Jacob DeWitte is a founder and the CEO of UPower. He graduated with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida in 2008 and has been named to the 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the energy… Read More
The University of Florida wins the TMS Materials Bowl
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The University of Florida won the TMS Materials Bowl, beating 11 other university teams, including the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, in the final round. The competition consisted of a “Jeopardy-style” trivia competition in single elimination rounds. Team members included… Read More
Dr. Kevin Jones receives the highest honor from SEMI
Mark Law, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Kevin Jones, Ph.D., received the highest honor from the global industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). The… Read More
Clayton Cozzan named Hoffman Scholarship Award recipient
The Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society has named UF MSE undergraduate student Clayton Cozzan the recipient of the 2013 Lewis C. Hoffman Scholarship Award. Cozzan was selected “in recognition of his excellence in the classroom, accompanied by many… Read More
UF Nuclear Engineering Team Wins the ANS Design Competition
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Every year, the American Nuclear Society (ANS) holds a design competition to select the best Student design projects. A panel of industry judges reviews the submitted projects and selects two undergraduate and two graduate teams to make oral presentations in… Read More
Sodano’s High-sensitivity Accelerometer Research Published in Nature Communications
The paper from Henry Sodano, Ph.D., demonstrated the growth of vertically aligned arrays of barium titanate nanowires for the first time and showed that the ferroelectric nanowires can act as highly accurate dynamics stress sensors or, specifically, accelerometers. The results… Read More
Dr. Andreas Enqvist joins UF MSE as Assistant Professor in Nuclear Engineering
Andreas Enqvist, Ph.D., received a Master of Science in physics at Gothenburg University, Sweden and his doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) in 2010. Dr. Enqvist worked as a postdoc and assistant research scientist from 2010… Read More
UF receives $1.6M award from DTRA to develop low-cost radiation detectors
James Baciak, Ph.D., Jiangeng Xue, Ph.D., and Juan Nino, Ph.D., received a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) award for $1.6 Million to develop organic photodiodes as low-cost, radiation-resistant alternatives to traditional photomultiplier tubes for next-generation gamma-ray spectrometers.