“If we really want to change the world it starts with educating the new engineer — an engineer who’s technically competent, but [also] one who is capable of leading and innovating in a world that is increasingly global and virtual.”
POWERING THE NEW ENGINEER
— Cammy Abernathy
Brave New World Powering the New Engineer is the most ambitious undertaking in the engineering college’s 100-plus-year history: a movement to “lead the next era of technological revolution by preparing a generation of engineers capable of solving global problems and creating and commercializing the discoveries that will transform the way we live our lives.” • 2 NEW BUILDINGS under construction or in design, as of fall 2020 • 12 DEGREE PROGRAMS (agricultural and biological, biomedical, civil, computer, environmental, electrical, industrial and systems, materials science, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, and nuclear) jump in national rankings in 2019 and 2020
CHRIS MALACHOWSKY
HERBERT WERTHEIM
• 76 NEW FACULTY hired since 2018 • 11 STUDENT STARTUPS • 42 INNOVATION-RELATED LICENSES or options • 225 PATENT APPLICATIONS
THE GO GREATER TRANSFORMATION Wertheim College of Engineering
“Engineering is the future for us as a society. When we think of all the good things that have happened in our lives — whether it’s airplanes or automobiles or harvests or the video camera we’re using — it all comes from engineering.” — Herbert Wertheim “What really got NVIDIA and me excited was partnering with UF to make A.I. available to K-12 students, state and community colleges, and businesses. This will help address underrepresented communities and sectors across the region where technology will have a profound positive effect.” — Chris Malachowsky
STEPPING FORWARD UF’s engineering college is stepping forward in this moment to unflinchingly meet the moments ahead. Dean Cammy Abernathy, colleagues and donors are reimagining the college’s mission to “Power the New Engineer.” Dr. Herbert Wertheim, the college’s namesake, predicts that UF will eventually have the “premier engineering college.”
GOING GREATER 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
• Juan Gilbert recruited as Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Chair • Cybersecurity expert Patrick Traynor named John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
• Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim invest $50 million in college; becomes catalyst for $300 million private-public partnership • Linda Parker Hudson’s gift launches Leader in Residence program
INVESTING IN PEOPLE Dozens of new hires, a flurry of strategic donor investments, and a focus on complex problems — things like “big data,” biomedical informatics, autonomous systems, a sustainable environment, cybersecurity, workforce development, human-centered computing, neuroscience and renewable energy — have placed the college squarely on the fast track.
• The George Kirkland Professorship created for leadership education
• Alex Moreno creates professorship and sustainable energy program in chemical engineering
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• Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence ground breaking
• UF Transportation Institute launches I-STREET, places 200 sensors around campus and Gainesville to create a real-world testbed for transportation technologies
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• David Nelms creates Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World
• Erika Moore, Daisy Zhe Wang and Kevin Butler awarded Rising Star Professorships, established by Walden Rhines and Arnold and Lisa Goldberg
• Sachio Semmoto establishes endowment supporting Nelms Institute • Engineering Innovation Institute receives gift from Michael Durham to teach student entrepreneurs
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• UF becomes “America’s A.I. University” when Chris Malachowsky and his company Invidia pledge $50 million to place the university and the engineering college on the cutting-edge of artificial intelligence training and innovation
Sacchio Semotto
Linda Hudson
David Nelms
Rhonda Holt