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 were… Read More
Dr. Kevin Jones receives the highest honor from SEMI
Dr. Mark Law (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Dr. Kevin Jones receive the highest honor from the global industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). The… Read More
Undergraduate 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 “in recognition of his excellence in the classroom accompanied by many significant contributions to… Read More
UF Nuclear Engineering Team Wins the ANS Design Competition
November 2013 – Every year the American Nuclear Society holds a design competition to select the best Student design projects. A panel of judges from industry reviews the submitted projects and selects two undergraduate teams and two graduate teams to… Read More
Dr. Henry Sodano’s work on high-sensitivity accelerometer published in Nature Communications
Dr. Sodano’s paper has demonstrated the growth of vertically aligned arrays of barium titanate Nanowires for the first time and shown that the ferroelectric nanowires can act as highly accurate dynamics stress sensors or specifically accelerometers. The results also show that… Read More
Dr. Andreas Enqvist joins UF MSE as Assistant Professor in Nuclear Engineering
Dr Enqvist received a Master of Science in physics at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He graduated with a PhD at the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) in 2010. Dr. Enqvist has worked as a postdoc and… Read More
UF receives $1.6M award from DTRA to develop low-cost radiation detectors
Professors Baciak (PI), Xue and Nino received a DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) 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.
UF receives $1.8M from DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy for R&D
Nuclear researchers in MSE (NE) have received Department of Energy University Program grants for conducting research to mitigate the Fuel Cladding Chemical Interactions (FCCI) in a sodium cooled fast reactor, and to develop BiI3 Gamma-Ray spectrometers for nuclear material safeguarding.… Read More
Dr. Michele Manuel has won the TMS Early Career Award
Dr. Michele Manuel has won the TMS Early Career Award for 2014. This award recognizes an assistant professor for his or her accomplishments that have advanced the academic institution where employed, and for abilities to broaden the technological profile of… Read More
Dr. Michele Manuel has been awarded the AVS Recognition in Leadership
The AVS States the purpose of this recognition as “… to recognize individuals who not only excel in science and/or engineering, but who also, through mentoring, have enhanced the careers of future generations who might not otherwise have considered or… Read More