UF MAE@uflmae

Official Twitter of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department @UF. GO GATORS! #UFMAE

 Gainesville, FL
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Joined January 2016
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🤖 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Ph.D., is teaching autonomous systems to make reliable decisions with limited information. Check out the full story here: mae.ufl.edu/2026/10/29/takin…
Rushikesh Kamalapurkar and lab group posing with their bots and drones.

ALT Rushikesh Kamalapurkar and lab group posing with their bots and drones.
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Wishing you a spooktacular Halloween from your favorite Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department! 🎃 ⚙️ Happy Halloween from UF MAE! 🐊
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Just a little Halloween fun from MAE 👻 👻 Wishing everyone a fun and spooky Halloween!
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🚀 The Sunjae Kim Lab received NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium funding to advance cryogenic orbital refueling research in support of NASA STMD missions! 🔬 The project features a new experimental rig and research led by an NSF GRFP Fellow. Congratulations to the team!
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Swamp Launch traveled to Kansas to launch their most ambitious vehicle yet. Orpheus & Eurydice is a two-stage carbon fiber vehicle, separating the Eurydice booster from the Orpheus sustainer mid-flight. #ufmae #gatorengineering
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Though it may sound like science fiction, Amor Menezes, Ph.D., and his team are using bacteria to help manufacture plastics in space. Check out the full story here: mae.ufl.edu/2026/10/22/amor-… #ufmae #gatorengineering
Close up shot of a bacterial culture plate with Amor Menezes examining it in the background.

ALT Close up shot of a bacterial culture plate with Amor Menezes examining it in the background.
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Dr. Saeed Moghaddam's team and collaborators received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit for their paper, “Towards Sustainable AI Data Centers Through Direct Waste Heat Recovery Enabled by Membrane-Assisted Heat Sink Technology.”
Saeed Moghaddam with student and collaborators receiving Best Paper Award at 2026 Open Compute Project Global Summit.

ALT Saeed Moghaddam with student and collaborators receiving Best Paper Award at 2026 Open Compute Project Global Summit.
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🎉 Huge congrats to Dr. Patrick Musgrave! 🏆 He was awarded the prestigious ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award for his notable contributions to Adaptive Structures & Material Systems! 👏🔬🐊 #UFMAE #GoGator
Patrick Musgrave, Ph.D. and his students posed with ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award.

ALT Patrick Musgrave, Ph.D. and his students posed with ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award.
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Talk about a Gator glow-up! At the UF Homecoming parade, Solar Gators brought the heat with their retiring champion car, Flare, decked out with the names of proud supporters who fuel the team’s mission. 🔥 Alongside the champ was MAE’s shiny new ride, rocking a fresh Gator wrap!
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🎉 Big congratulations to Dr. Ghatu Subhash! 🏆 He has received the American Ceramic’s Education & Professional Development Council’s Outstanding Educator Award, recognizing his incredible dedication to teaching, mentoring, and advancing engineering education! 🔬📚💡
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We are proud to see MAE students actively solving today's problems and changing people's lives!💡
UF Engineering@UFWertheim
Oct 12
UF junior Ja’Rell I. Felix and his student team developed BeachLens to help beachgoers understand tides, surf, weather and water quality. With 30,000 downloads, their idea is making waves. 🌊 bit.ly/4APPjpl
Two attendees speak at Seaworthy Collective’s startup showcase. The person on the left gestures while the man on the right listens, holding a cup. A screen behind them displays the Ocean Enterprise Studio & Incubator’s Cohort 7.

ALT Two attendees speak at Seaworthy Collective’s startup showcase. The person on the left gestures while the man on the right listens, holding a cup. A screen behind them displays the Ocean Enterprise Studio & Incubator’s Cohort 7.

Graphic titled “Search Your Beach” shows BeachLens on a smartphone. The app lists St. Pete Beach, Clearwater Beach and Treasure Island with beach photos, flag colors, temperatures, wave heights and UV levels. Filters include flag color, lifeguards and restrooms.

ALT Graphic titled “Search Your Beach” shows BeachLens on a smartphone. The app lists St. Pete Beach, Clearwater Beach and Treasure Island with beach photos, flag colors, temperatures, wave heights and UV levels. Filters include flag color, lifeguards and restrooms.
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Representatives from the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (3ID) and the Civil Military Innovation Institute (CMI2) visited UF to attend the final presentation of Veil Thermal Systems™, a Capstone team developing vehicle thermal decoy shrouds. Full story: mae.ufl.edu/2026/10/08/a-par…
Capstone team posing with their thermal decoy shrouds.

ALT Capstone team posing with their thermal decoy shrouds.
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The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering will be closed today, Friday, October 9th, as we join in the Homecoming celebrations! 🏈 We'll be back to business as usual Monday at 8:00 AM. 🧡 Have a fun and safe weekend Gators! 🐊 #ufmae #homecoming #gogators
Albert the Gator pointing to a sign that says "The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering @ UF is closed today. We will reopen Monday at 8:00 AM. Tag us in your HOCO pics for a chance to get featured!"

ALT Albert the Gator pointing to a sign that says "The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering @ UF is closed today. We will reopen Monday at 8:00 AM. Tag us in your HOCO pics for a chance to get featured!"

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Every year, the international community gets together to celebrate World Space Week. Pictured here is NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), which took its second trip to space earlier this year carrying an international crew around the Moon. 💫 #ufmae #worldspaceweek
NASA's SLS launching for Artemis II mission.

ALT NASA's SLS launching for Artemis II mission.
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🏆🐊 Huge congratulations to MAE PhD students, Kat and Hunter, for winning 2nd place (tied) at the Student Poster Competition at the ASTM International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing! #UFMAE #GatorEngineering
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Congratulations to Florida Engineering Society at the University of Florida for embodying the spirit of a Gator engineer and giving students a second home here at UF! 🧡 💙
UF Engineering@UFWertheim
Sep 26
UF’s Florida Engineering Society chapter celebrated its 60th anniversary by being named Florida’s Most Active Student Chapter! 🏆🐊 See how its members are building careers, leadership skills and a community that feels like family: bit.ly/4hfi3QD
Ten UF Florida Engineering Society members pose around a banquet table at the FES and ACEC-FL Annual Conference. A student standing in the center holds the Most Active Student Chapter award.

ALT Ten UF Florida Engineering Society members pose around a banquet table at the FES and ACEC-FL Annual Conference. A student standing in the center holds the Most Active Student Chapter award.

UF Florida Engineering Society members smile and extend their arms toward the camera while standing on the steps of the Florida Capitol during Legislative Days in Tallahassee.

ALT UF Florida Engineering Society members smile and extend their arms toward the camera while standing on the steps of the Florida Capitol during Legislative Days in Tallahassee.

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UF MAE researcher Hugh Fan and collaborators have developed a low-cost, handheld device that can rapidly detect 7 mosquito-borne viruses. 🦟📷 Read more: mae.ufl.edu/2026/09/25/porta… #UFMAE #GatorEngineers

Portable device delivers rapid testing for mosquito-borne viruses

With a lot of ingenuity, some creative engineering and a few off-the-shelf items, a University of Florida team led by a virologist and an engineer have created an inexpensive…

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How old is the MAE Staff...really? We turned years at the department into ages for a little fun with just a few members of our wonderful staff. They are a huge part of what makes MAE so special, no matter how long they've worked here. 🧡 💙
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Congratulations to Matthew J. Traum, Ph.D., and Eunice Chung Carter on being recognized with the UF Division of Student Life’s Commitment to Collaboration Award! mae.ufl.edu/2026/09/18/conne…

Connecting Students for Success

Though physics lays the foundation, becoming an engineer takes far more than understanding F = ma. Here at MAE, faculty and staff are committed to building a rich curriculum for students.

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We are proud to celebrate Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, Ph.D. candidate, for her recognition by the WIA Foundation!
Women in Aerospace@WomeninAero
Sep 16
We’re also so excited to announce the WIA Foundation's 2026 Scholarship recipients! Join us in celebrating these outstanding young women and their promising futures in the aerospace community. Read the full announcement and meet this year’s honorees: womeninaerospace.org/news/09…
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