Meet Our Gator Engineers
See what some of our best and brightest students are accomplishing in their fields and what they have to say
about their experiences at UF.
Carlo Francis graduated from UF in 2005 with a B.S. in electrical engineering. He's working on a master's degree at UF and is an integral part of Team SubjuGator, who built an autonomous submarine -- a two-time winner of the International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition.
"Being part of Team SubjuGator gives me the opportunity to apply what I lean in class to real-world problems. I've learned many new problem-solving techniques that I believe help me become a much better engineer."
Lauren Culver is a 21-year-old materials science and engineering senior. She researched polymers in associate professor Elliot P. Douglas' group. She is working on the collagen scaffold project - part of an endeavor aimed at creating a synthetic biomaterial with the same structure and function as a real bone.
"From working closely alongside my mentor I have learned the truth about research - it rarely goes exactly as planned. Real research is nothing like your first semester of chemistry lab."
Ryan Chancey is a recent Gator Engineering graduate researching structural behavior and failure mechanisms ranging from nano-scale materials to full-scale structures. He won a Fulbright fellowship to Denmark and an NSF graduate research fellowship. He published refereed papers in the American Physical Society's Physical Review A and KVANT, a premier Danish journal of physics.
"The UF College of Engineering afforded me a breadth of opportunity to explore diverse research areas."
