List of 2025 News

Xun Gong Named an IEEE Fellow

  A UCF electrical engineering professor has been honored with a fellow designation by an international engineering society. Professor Xun Gong has been recognized for…

UCF Students Aim to Improve Patient Care Through AI, Robotics

UCF computer science major Julia Moras knows firsthand about living with epilepsy. Now, through a new interdisciplinary education and research effort, she’s examining through her undergraduate…

UCF Engineering Alum’s Name Is Written in Outer Space

Every 90 minutes or so, an Acadia satellite designed by Capella Space completes another orbit of our planet. From 400 miles up, it could theoretically…

Researchers Create Novel AI Video Editing Technology

  In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), complex photo editing can be done with the click of a button. Whether you want to remove an…

Computer Engineering Professor Researches Economic and Environmental Challenges of AI

The use of an artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model like ChatGPT may be free for the end user, but it doesn’t come without an economic or…

ECE Alumna Honored with UCF’s 30 Under 30 Award

  Electrical engineering alumna Megan Driggers ’19 ’22MS has been selected for one of UCF’s most elite recognitions: the 30 Under 30 Award. Honored for…

UCF Researchers Develop Organ-on-a-Chip Technology for Industry

UCF researchers are developing powerful possibilities for industrially aligned research to support advances in healthcare with organ-on-a-chip (OOC) technology. OOC is built on a miniature glass…

NASA Expert Serves as Department’s First Professor of Practice

NASA’s senior technical executive for space electrical/power systems has come to UCF, bringing unparalleled expertise and a powerful vision for the engineers and researchers of…

Undergraduate’s First Research Project Wins Best Paper Award

  Writing your first academic paper is an accomplishment in itself. Getting it accepted by a conference is a remarkable achievement. Writing your first paper,…

Student-designed Autonomous Racecar Goes Full Throttle With Top 10 Grand Prix Finish

  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…

Department Hires Three New Faculty Members for Fall Semester

  As the technology industry grows each year, so does the need for experts who create innovations that fuel this sector and educate the workforce…

UCF Medicine-Engineering Program Trains Students for Future of Healthcare

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…

Electrical Engineering Graduate Students Shine at International Symposium

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…

5 UCF Researchers Use 2025 NSF CAREER Awards to Address Emerging Challenges in Computer Science and Engineering

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…

Electrical Engineering Students Place Second in Hardware Challenge

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…

UCF Students’ AI System Assists Orlando Health Robotic Surgeries

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…

CECS Faculty Awarded Promotion and Tenure

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…

CECS Faculty, Staff and Students Honored on Founders’ Day

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…

Engineering, Computer Science Students Recognized for Excellence in Research

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…

UCF to Contribute to Optimization of Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Through New National Institute

The university will play a supporting role in a regional research hub that will develop digital twin technology to improve semiconductor chip manufacturing. At the…