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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 […]

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 […]

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!

When Zonnelle Hanley’s high school students return to class this fall, they will dive into hands-on, project-based lessons on how storms affect Florida’s northern coasts. Thanks to the NHERI Teacher Training Institute at the University of Florida, Hanley’s students will study storm-related vulnerabilities and resilience on the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Coast. They will […]

Caroline Lubbe, a doctoral student with the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) at the University of Florida, has earned a prestigious internship opportunity at the National Science Foundation (NSF) through The Talent Development and Innovation in Sciences (TDIS) Summer Internship Program. Lubbe is supervised by Sindia Rivera-Jimenez, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of […]