UCF robotics expert Gita Sukthankar will help inform a federal agency on new research breakthroughs in computer science. The associate professor has been appointed to the Information Science and Technology study group for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Sukthankar…
Read More The nation’s engineering workforce should reflect the diversity of the global society it serves, said Michael Georgiopoulos, dean of the UCF College of Engineering & Computer Science, and it’s why he recently joined 135 other engineering deans in a national…
Read More UCF mechanical engineering senior Kevin Bauer wants people to know that the national award-winning student club he leads – the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers – is devoted to reducing global energy consumption, and not to…
Read More UCF engineering and computer science faculty have appeared in several national and local news stories this summer, offering their expertise on a variety of topics. Hurricane prediction: UCF-developed technology that collects data within the entire eye of a storm to…
Read More A UCF computer scientist has developed software to help doctors quickly determine whether what many assume to be an expected middle-age paunch is potentially more serious. Since the 2009 discovery that adults also have brown – or good – fat…
Read More Members of UCF’s Cyber Defense Competition Team – all computer science and information technology students – were treated this week to a tour of Washington, D.C., for capturing the Raytheon-sponsored National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition crown: a repeat title for the UCF team in its third year. The packed three-day…
Read More The search for open rehearsal spaces at the Juilliard School in New York – where aspiring actors, musicians and dancers outnumber available practice rooms by almost 7 to 1 – has been streamlined, thanks to the engineering skills of the…
Read More Orlando City Soccer Club and Limbitless Solutions – a UCF-based team of engineering students and others – partnered today to change the life of a 6-year-old boy forever. Paulo Costa Boa Nova and his father, Claudio Boa Nova, traveled from…
Read More Funded for 28 consecutive years by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of Central Florida’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Computer Vision is the nation’s longest-running REU site. NSF recently extended the site to 2018 with a $400,000…
Read More A first-place rocket, a second-place unmanned rover and a third-place human-powered vehicle are all student-made projects that continue the University of Central Florida’s longtime success in engineering competitions. The award-winning creations were among 100 spring 2015 “senior design” projects created by teams…
Read More The University of Central Florida’s Computer Programming Team has retained its rank in the nation’s top 10 after competing in an international super-contest known as the “Battle of the Brains.” UCF placed 8th among U.S. teams and 28th in the…
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