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UCF Materials Engineering Researcher Is Working to Extend Battery Life in Smartphones, Electric Cars

UCF Materials Engineering Researcher Is Working to Extend Battery Life in Smartphones, Electric Cars

By UCF News October 26, 2020 Print Article
October 26, 2020 — 

A University of Central Florida researcher is working to make portable devices and electric vehicles stay charged longer by extending the life of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries powering them. Assistant Professor Yang Yang is doing this by making the batteries…

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UCF Partners with Adobe to Personalize Reading Experiences for Students, Adults

UCF Partners with Adobe to Personalize Reading Experiences for Students, Adults

By UCF Admin October 21, 2020 Print Article
October 21, 2020 — 

The increase in remote work and e-learning sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic means more people are reading in digital formats, from eye-straining, small-text documents to PDFs that have embedded pictures and graphics. But there’s a bigger problem – the technology…

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Engineering Student Team Wins Best Business Idea in National HSI Competition

Engineering Student Team Wins Best Business Idea in National HSI Competition

By UCF Admin October 19, 2020 Print Article
October 19, 2020 — 

Eight UCF students earned a $5,000 scholarship with their award-winning plan to keep college students engaged in extracurricular activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. UCF College of Business students Armando Barrial, Tomas Daza, Maria Pacheco Naranjo, Karen Ortiz and UCF College…

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Aerospace Engineering Professor Receives Grant to Determine How Cracks in Aircraft Components Start

Aerospace Engineering Professor Receives Grant to Determine How Cracks in Aircraft Components Start

By UCF Admin October 12, 2020 Print Article
October 12, 2020 — 

One small crack in an aircraft component can lead to major problems. The cracks can grow fast and damage metal components to the point of failure, but they are often hard to detect. In an effort to stop this problem…

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World Champs, Big Grants and Detecting COVID-19 with AI

World Champs, Big Grants and Detecting COVID-19 with AI

By Kimberly J. Lewis October 08, 2020 Print Article
October 8, 2020 — 

Video monitoring, crowd surveillance, and detecting and identifying hard-to-see objects and anomalies in medical images are among the many tedious human tasks that can be performed or enhanced using computer vision technology with remarkable speed and accuracy – and it’s…

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Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Urban Planning

Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Urban Planning

By UCF News October 06, 2020 Print Article
October 6, 2020 — 

Before you ever step into a new coffee shop, years of urban planning have gone into building that brick-and-mortar building in your neighborhood. Urban planning is a multi-faceted discipline in which planners collect data points from targeted areas to determine…

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