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Gold May Be Key Element for Cleaner Drinking Water Fang Receives Scientist Medal for His Contributions to the Field CECS Students Awarded for Research, Academic Excellence at Student Research Week Events Meet UCF’s 2024 Pegasus Professors Who Make a Global Impact UCF Reach for the Stars 2024 Honorees Leading the Charge into the Future Civil Engineering Students Win Multiple Awards at Southeast Student Symposium UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team Advances to Nationals for the ‘Super Bowl’ of Cyber Competitions UCF Researchers Lead Project to Develop AI-driven Technologies for Agriculture UCF Ranks 21st in U.S. Public Universities for Patents with 57 New Inventions in 2023 Inside One Knight’s Network to the White House UCF Research Team Moves to Build Mobile Resilience Hubs for Local Neighborhoods University of Central Florida Enters $6M Cooperative Agreement to Develop Research Commercialization Hub How the Art of Listening has Fast-tracked a Dream Engineering Career Georgiopoulos Reappointed Dean of UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science UCF Student Awarded $25,000 Google-CAHSI Dissertation Award for VR, AR Research The Next Giant Leaps for All of Humankind UCF Receives 3 Minority Serving Institution Awards to Promote Collaborations with NASA High-Tech Hardware Gift Elevates Learning for UCF Electrical and Computer Engineering Students UCF Receives $1.5M NSF Grant to Improve Energy Efficiency of Wireless Communications 2 UCF Students to Compete on the 2024 U.S. Cyber Team UCF Alumna Receives $1M NSF Grant to Further Development of Microbe-Killing Residual Disinfectant 3 UCF Students Participate in Prestigious Department of Defense Fellowship New UCF Project is Harnessing Virtual Reality to Teach Quantum Computing To the Moon: UCF Engineering Alum Shares Experience With Artemis I Mission UCF Students Receive $25,000 EPA Grant to Develop Toxin Biosensor for Drinking Water New DOD-funded Project Will Develop Morphing Hypersonic Engine UCF’s 3 NSF CAREER Awardees Lead Advancements in Heart Health, Solar Energy and Wireless Communication New Ethanol Fuel Cell Technology Rivals Fossil Fuels and Electric Car Batteries UCF Engineering Alum Receives International Award for Expertise in Combustion UCF Researcher Leads $3.3 Million Project to Develop Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Simulators UCF Student Awarded Department of Defense SMART Scholarship UCF Awards 143 Faculty with Promotion and Tenure CECS Announces Winners of Latin American and Caribbean Scholarship 3 Faculty Named UCF Trustee Chairs for 2023-28 UCF Celebrates International Women in Engineering Day, Featuring the BRaIN Lab UCF Alums Working on Artemis 2: Why the Space Program is Personal to Us New UCF Project Launched to Engage a Diverse, New Generation of Researchers to Aid Aging Populations UCF Alumna, Student Selected for NASA Graduate Research Award UCF Knights Speed Past the Competition in Human-Powered Vehicle Challenge UCF Researchers Identify 6 Challenges Humans Face with Artificial Intelligence New Study Shows People Are Willing to Start Cycling More Post-COVID-19 Pandemic UCF Researcher Receives DOE Funding to Advance Human Understanding of AI Reasoning UCF Alum Expands Business, Receives Support From Blue Origin UCF’s New Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Degree Will Advance Research Careers New Green Storage System Offers Renewable Energy On-Demand UCF Researchers Work to Reduce the Amount of Precious Metals in Catalytic Converters New UCF-Developed Battery Could Prevent Post-Hurricane Electric Vehicle Fires Digital Domination UCF Researcher Receives $1.5M Award to Develop Health Monitoring Tool for Firefighters The Power Behind UCF’s Tech Talent Machine Aerospace Engineering Student Aims to Improve Tracking of Space Debris with NASA Award 10 UCF Knights Supported Artemis Mission Through Summer Internships at NASA UCF-led Research Team to Play Key Role in National $26M NSF-funded Effort to Develop Smart Streetscapes UCF’s Perla Latorre-Suarez Named Among Best Aerospace Graduate Students in the World Industrial Engineering Doctoral Student Receives UCF’s 400,000th Degree 3 UCF Colleges Receive $4.5M for Infectious Disease, Travel Health Research Initiative Engineering Graduate Fellows Get Hands-on Experience with National Industry Leaders Study Shows Personalized Fonts Speed Up Reading, Maintain Comprehension Another Record Year for UCF — 8 NSF CAREER Awardees As Hurricane Season Kicks Off, UCF Researchers Working to Make Communities More Resilient UCF Students Oust Top Teams at 2022 North America Collegiate Programming Contest, Advance to World Finals 5 UCF Scholars to be Inducted into Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida Elite Students Coming to UCF for North America Collegiate Programming Contest Aerodynamics of Perching Birds Could Inform Aircraft Design College awards 2,000th doctoral and 10,000th master’s degrees to honorary recipients Champions of Defense UCF Research Team Receives National Award for Study on Combating Wrong-way Driving UCF Earns National Victory in NSA-Sponsored Pilot Cybersecurity Competition UCF’s 2022 Great Navel Orange Race Celebrates a 25-Year Engineering Tradition Researchers Develop Method to Determine Where Storm Surges Are Increasing Most UCF Students Win $25,000 for 1st Place Finish at 2nd HSI Battle of the Brains Competition UCF’s Programming Team Wins Regionals, Again Earns Berth in 2022 North America Championship Readability Consortium Forms at UCF to Push Reading Research Boundaries UCF Researchers Use Engineering Expertise to Solve Problems of the Heart UCF Engineer Helping Unlock Secrets of Heart Disease, Cancer, Sleep Apnea, more UCF Lands New Project to Study Effect of Rain on Hypersonic Travel UCF to Lead $10M NASA Project to Develop Zero-Carbon Jet Engines UCF Student Nanotech Team Designs Space Suit Material for NASA Competition UCF Researchers Are Designing the Next Generation of Space Tech Fang Named Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials Shah Named Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery 2 UCF Professors Elected as IEEE Fellows for Career Achievements Rapid Lyme Disease Tests Could Soon Be Heading to A Doctor’s Office Near You Face Masks Cut Distance Airborne Pathogens Could Travel in Half, New Study Finds Turning Ideas Into Real Business UCF Wins U.S. Department of Energy Cyber Defense Competition — Again UCF Mechanical Engineering Student to Compete in World Floorball Championship FPL, GE Digital Launch New Lab for UCF Engineering Students Engineering Alumna Travels 900 Miles to Attend Commencement MAE’s Kareem Ahmed Lands Selective New DOD Award to Advance Hypersonic Propulsion Research Seal Delivers Awards Lecture During Materials Society’s Annual Meeting Cybersecurity Researcher Leads DARPA-Funded Project to Help Reduce Fraud UCF Programming Team Advances to World Finals UCF is 1 of 7 Universities to Win Grant to Support NASA’s Artemis Program UCF Researchers Create Global Storm Surge Database UCF Researchers Develop New Nanomaterial to Derive Clean Fuel from the Sea Knights Do That Podcast with Daniel West Limbitless Solutions Moves into New 6,000 Square Facility on its 7-Year Anniversary Digital Forensics Student on Pace to be on 1st U.S. Cyber Team UCF’s 5 NSF CAREER Grant Recipients Making Breakthroughs in Healthcare and Engineering UCF Ranks Among World’s Best in Transportation Science and Technology UCF Graduate Honored by NSF for Engineering, Locomotion Work Cybersecurity Team Wins 4th National Championship Two UCF Professors Inducted into Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida UCF Starts New Master’s Degree Program in Computer Vision Coastal Changes Worsen Nuisance Flooding on Many U.S. Shorelines, Study Finds Two Aerospace Students Receive Fellowship’s First Awards Delfyett to be Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering Advanced Light Reveals How Different Biofuels Behave Engineering and Biology Researchers Collaborate to Aid Coral Reef Restoration UCF Researchers Earn Top Spots in Their Fields in New Ranking of Scientific Impact UCF Partners with Adobe to Personalize Reading Experiences for Students, Adults UCF Researchers Are Helping Develop Rapid, Longer Lasting COVID Disinfectant UCF Researchers Are Developing Models to Predict Storm Surges UCF Sets Research-Funding Record of $204.5 Million $1 Million Grant to Help Advance Machine Vision-Learning Technology UCF Team Wins Worldwide Competition in Computer Vision CyberColosseum Solutions Takes First Place at UCF’s 2024 Joust New Venture Competition Doors of Opportunity Open Wide for UCF Students in Lockheed Martin College Work Experience Program Faculty, Staff, Students Honored at Founders’ Day Ceremonies