Buckle your seatbelts. Quentin Fouliard is ready for takeoff. Born in France and with life experiences all over the world, UCF’s first Ph.D. graduate in aerospace engineering is always looking outward and upward. But ask Fouliard where he sees the…

You can detect a mix of disbelief and excitement in Dale Wagner’s voice as he describes the senior design project he just completed as part of his mechanical engineering degree requirements. His was not the textbook project — which in…

The U.S. Department of Energy’s $3.75 million award to the University of Central Florida and project partners – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Siemens Corporate Research Center and Orlando Utilities Commission – will support research to improve the design of autonomous…

NASA has turned to UCF to develop a new way of powering and heating spacecraft when they are far from the sun and solar energy isn’t practical. UCF was one of 14 universities awarded grants under NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants’…

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is turning to the University of Central Florida to develop new technology to help keep first responders safe during potentially toxic fires. It’s doing so with a new, $500,000 grant from the department’s Federal…

Competing against more than 100 of the top collegiate cybersecurity teams in the nation, UCF took 2nd place nationally in Saturday’s fifth annual CyberForce Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. UCF’s Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition team, known as Hack@UCF,…

UCF claimed its fourth consecutive national win, taking top honors in a national competition that puts students’ engineering and technical knowledge and persuasive sales pitching skills to the test. Senior Savannah Irvin, an electrical engineering major, and senior Andrew Saab,…