Three UCF engineering and computer science professors are among 22 honorees inducted Nov. 7 to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL), a group that brings together the nation’s most distinguished scholars who live and work in…

Every year, UCF takes technologies developed on campus to the national TechConnect Conference for exposure and this year one of them earned one of the top awards of the conference. The 2020 TechConnect Defense Innovation Award is a recognition for…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A University of Central Florida researcher is part of a new study showing that artificial intelligence can be nearly as accurate as a physician in diagnosing COVID-19 in the lungs. The study, recently published in Nature Communications, shows the new technique…

We’re thrilled to share that Mohamed Abdel-Aty Ph.D., chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, recently received the highest honor given by the Transportation Research Board (TRB): the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award. He will receive…

Heartfelt appreciation from students and encouraging words of support from donors filled an hour of virtual space this week during the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science’s annual Scholarships Reception, a time-honored tradition that gives donors a unique opportunity…