Category: Honors and Awards

Jason Gibson, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded a Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) Fellowship, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  Gibson’s research proposal to MolSSI included building an online, open database of machine learning models to help speed up the process […]

Tony Brennan, Ph.D., retired in 2019 after nearly three decades as an innovator, leader and mentor to countless students and others along the way. Dr. Brennan and his wife Kathy were consistent champions of our dedicated staff, recognizing its critical role in keeping everything moving as smoothly as possible – all while working primarily behind […]

Our 2021 Distinguished Early Career Alumni Award winner is Jacob DeWitte, Ph.D., a nuclear reactor developer commercializing next-generation fission power systems. Dr. DeWitte is a co-Founder and the CEO of Oklo, Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based company developing and building small nuclear reactors. Dr. DeWitte is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and completed his undergraduate studies […]

Considered the greatest distinction of any student award given by the college, the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the Gator Engineering community. They honor five undergraduate and five Ph.D. students who strongly model one of the five Gator Engineering Attributes: Creativity: imaginative, versatile, resourceful, artful, curious, passionate, inspired, innovative, willing to discover […]

  This EVENT celebrates the successes of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and the Nuclear Engineering Program’s 2020-2021 academic year Watch the video replay of the Banquet below or scroll down to read through the content presented during the broadcast   Departmental Scholarship Awards Student Society Recognition Faculty Recognition Staff Recognition In Memoriam […]

The Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida continues to shine in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released today. The materials science and engineering graduate program continues to be Top 10 among public universities. The program has been ranked in the Top 10 for the last […]

Matthew Zaluzec, Ph.D., a faculty member in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE), has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to NAE is among the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer. NAE members are elected by current NAE members and honor those who have distinguished themselves in either […]

Tori Miller, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, has been named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award winner. Her research will utilize statistical methods and machine learning to investigate the micro-scale structure of materials during manufacture. “When metals are […]

Congratulations to James Baciak, Ph.D., and Yong Yang, Ph.D., both recipients of the 2019-2020 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. “I am truly honored to receive this award,” Dr. Yang said. “As a faculty member, I feel there is no greater reward than seeing my students be successful at UF […]

Brij Moudgil, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, has been selected as a 2020 recipient of the KONA Award, presented to a researcher for lifetime achievement in the powder and particle science and technology field. Dr. Moudgil served as Director of the UF Particle Engineering Research Center and is currently […]