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How To Connect

To help you connect with the College of Engineering and Computer Science please connect with our Director of Research and Industry partnerships, Jeff Pridmore. We’ll help you identify win-win partnership opportunities that exist university-wide. We’re also glad to explore ways to transform your vision into a new opportunity.

By e-mail or phone call, we’ll identify your need, determine the resources and and make the connection promptly back to you for additional follow-up. This means no more searching the vast resources of the college and university yourself.

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  • Research
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  • Giving and Grants

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Contact Jeff Pridmore at 407-362-8214 or email jeffprid@ucf.edu.

Recruit Our Students

CECS welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with employers and partners to help us employ our more than 1,600 graduating students per year, and place many of our 11,000+ undergraduates in internships and co-op opportunities. Explore these opportunities below.

Learn More:

Recruiting UCF Engineering and Computer Science Students & Alumni:

To post a job or learn more, visit UCF Career Services webpage for employers.

Co-op and Internship Program:

To learn about opportunities, visit the UCF Experiential Learning webpage.

Research Opportunities

Contact the directors of the following major initiatives to explore opportunities for working together:

FEEDER Consortium

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, this consortium is preparing the nation’s energy “smart” grid to transition to renewable energy sources. Join 8 utility companies, 8 universities, 11 industry partners and 2 national labs.

Center for Research in Computer Vision

Computer vision is used in crowd surveillance, visual tracking, facial recognition, human behavior analysis and more. The center’s technology can be used in scanning crowd scenes, analyzing brain scans for tumors, environmental monitoring, and indexing and searching massive databases of images and videos. Prof. Mubarak Shah is the world’s sixth highest-cited author in computer vision in the past five years.

Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research

The center intersects 10 core technical areas that advance scientific knowledge and innovation in turbo-machineries and associated technologies to bring higher reliability, higher efficiency and lower emissions in power generation, aviation and space.

Orlando and the central Florida region is a world hub for turbine, energy and space technology development.

Interactive Systems and User Experience (ISUE) Research Cluster of Excellence

The cluster develops innovative technologies related to all forms of computer-based interactive experiences that benefit society. Expertise includes interactive technology; 3D user interfaces; simulation and training; video games; human-robot interaction; virtual augmented reality environments; motion capture technology and more.

UCF Engineering Leadership & Innovation Institute (eli2)

Developing a community of leaders, eli2 offers lifelong engagement to transform students into professionals and leaders. Its mission is to inspire students’ desire to create, innovate, collaborate and deliver world-changing solutions.