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Drive, intelligence and passion: Meet award-winning EEd superstar Gadhaun Aslam

April 30, 2025

In April, Gadhaun Aslam won the prestigious Gator Engineering Attribute Award and the Presidential Service Award. He also was a finalist for the Distinguished Engagement Award.

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Professor empowers students with cutting-edge AI training

April 16, 2025

Growing up in a family of civil engineers sparked Andrea Ramirez-Salgado’s curiosity about, well, everything.

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Heralded researcher Villanueva Alarcón named new EEd chair

March 5, 2025

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., a distinguished professor, popular mentor, and groundbreaking researcher at the University of Florida, has been named the new chair of the Department of Engineering Education at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She replaces Hans van Oostrom, Ph.D., the department’s founding chair. In 2016, he created the Institute for Excellence in […]

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EEd Faculty Member Set to Improve Education Around Artificial Intelligence

February 12, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly prominent in society, ensuring proper education and workforce development in AI for a broader student audience is essential, according to Rui Guo, Ph.D., instructional assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education (EEd), and her research group. Using a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Guo and her […]

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Founding Chair of EEd Stepping Down After 6 Years

February 7, 2025

Hans van Oostrom, Ph.D., the founding chair of the Department of Engineering Education (EEd) at the University of Florida, has announced he is stepping down from his role as chair of the department. He has served six years in this position at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and is set to pursue another opportunity […]

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Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., Wins Educator Achievement Award from SHPE

September 18, 2024

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., associate chair and associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education (EEd), has been awarded the Educator Achievement Award – Higher Education in the 2024 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Technical Achievement and Recognition (STAR) Awards. “Words can’t really express how thankful I am,” Villanueva Alarcón said. “This has been […]

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EED Graduate Student Selected to National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

July 9, 2024

Atayliya Irving, a graduate student with the Department of Engineering Education (EED), has been selected for the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). This marks the first time a student in EED has earned this honor. “Being selected as a 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow is a very prestigious […]

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The TWISTER Lab

June 14, 2024

Have you ever wondered what engineering education and biological/physiological methods have in common? Our very own Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., had a chance to explain her work in multimodal engineering education through The TWISTER Lab!

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