Students

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…

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…

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…

In an effort to prepare doctoral students for careers in academia, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has launched the Future Faculty Laureates Program. The goal is to recognize and prepare engineering students interested in careers at Research 1 academic institutions, which are considered very high activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of…

Computer engineering doctoral student Ishraq Tashdid has been selected for a UCF Trustee Fellowship. This award, worth $25,000 per year for four years, is given to outstanding graduate students who are newly enrolled at UCF for their terminal degree. “Being a recipient of the Trustee Fellowship is an incredible honor, and I feel both humbled and motivated,”…

Three students from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering were awarded scholarships from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society (IEEE PES) for the 2024-25 academic year. Andre Llanos, Isabella Polkey and Nicole Parker are three of 84 students from across the U.S. who were chosen for this honor. The…

Two electrical engineering seniors, Nicole Parker and Maria Bonina Zimath, have won scholarships from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society (IEEE PES) in recognition of their academic excellence and their promising future careers. The IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative is awarded to undergraduates majoring in electrical engineering with exceptional GPAs,…

A new partnership with one of the world’s foremost aerospace and defense companies is opening doors for UCF electrical and computer engineering students. Four undergraduate students have been chosen for the inaugural Northrop Grumman (NG) Undergraduate Scholars program, which provides the opportunity to in UCF research labs, receive mentorship from faculty and intern at Northrop…

Electrical and computer engineering student Alexander Green is soaring to new heights thanks to a coveted scholarship that gives him the opportunity to work for the U.S. Air Force. Green, a computer engineering major, has been awarded the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship. The competitive scholarship-for-service program, funded by the U.S. Department…

For all his knowledge about complex topics like robotics and cell biology, Chris Clifford ’21 does not know how to simply decompress. Clifford finished his electrical engineering degree in December, and was the first student at UCF to be offered the Gates Cambridge Scholar, which is one of the most competitive postgraduate scholarships in the world.  Opting for…