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  A student-built racecar that started off as a senior design project has exceeded all expectations with a Top 10 finish at the Roboracer Autonomous Grand Prix Competition, held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). The 1/10 scale, autonomous vehicle was built by computer engineering graduate Israel Charles ‘25, along with…

  As the technology industry grows each year, so does the need for experts who create innovations that fuel this sector and educate the workforce that powers it.   With this demand in mind, UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) has broken a hiring record with a total of 39 new faculty members joining…

Pavan Senthil was inspired walking through a convention hall and seeing the technology that doctors and engineers had created for people with disabilities. Wheelchairs that worked even if a person couldn’t use their arms and legs. AI-assisted robots that provided 24/7 care at home and reported any emergencies to the patient’s healthcare team. Training tools…

Two graduate student teams from the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering won awards at the 2025 International Microwave Symposium design competitions, held last month in San Francisco. The winning electrical engineering student team members — Niteesh Bharadwaj Vangipurapu, Pingzhu Gong and Jiachen Guo from Professor Kenle Chen’s research group, and Sanjida Sultana, Ignacio…

The early-career professors were recognized for their excellence with significant research funding as part of a prestigious and highly competitive annual U.S. National Science Foundation grant program. Three UCF faculty were named 2025 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award winners while two recent faculty hires transferred their CAREER projects…

Students from the UCF student branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) excelled at IEEE Southeast Con 2025, coming away with a second-place finish at a hardware competition that tested their ability to build and program an autonomous robot. Kate Archibald, UCF IEEE conference chair, says that among the boundless opportunities for…

A student engineering project that began with using artificial intelligence (AI) to track cafeteria forks transformed into a system that will help Orlando Health surgeons perform robotic surgeries more efficiently. Laura Brattain, a UCF biomedical engineer, mentored six College of Engineering and Computer Science seniors, who developed the AIMS (AI for Medical Surgery) system that keeps track of…

Faculty members across the College of Engineering and Computer Science achieved significant career milestones in earning promotions and tenure for the 2024-25 cycle. The approved faculty — 11 for promotion and five for promotion and tenure — underwent a rigorous performance evaluation by peers, college and university leaders that took nearly an academic year. The…

Every year on the first Wednesday of April, UCF honors the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of our people on Founders’ Day, our annual celebration of the employees, faculty, and students who keep reaching for the stars. The entire UCF community was invited to join us at these special events, held in the Pegasus Ballroom of…

Student Research Week is an annual university event that allows students of all majors to showcase a particular project from their area of study. More than 700 students participated this year, including over 120 undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Students presented their research through several sessions throughout the…