GatorKits Lab

10/09/2024

Our first synchronous virtual exchange between students from the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at UF and Aswan University - جامعة أسوان (ASWU), Egypt through the HEAT Program occurred today!

This program is sponsored by The Stevens Initiative through the U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs [Exchange Programs - U.S. Department of State] and managed by The Aspen Institute.

We conducted an icebreaker to help participants get acquainted. Then Dr. Walid Aissa from ASWU presented a dimensional analysis lecture to prepare us for our joint Similitude hands-on experiment later this week.

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10/08/2024

ME Capstone in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at UF is working on an exciting new project with Prof. Ghatu Subhash and the Laboratory for Dynamic Response of Advanced Materials (LDRAM) [https://mae.ufl.edu/~subhash/].

UF ME senior design students are creating, building, and testing Millipede Bars to dramatically reduce the size of mechanical strain rate materials testing. Here is the full story:

https://capstone.mae.ufl.edu/2024/10/08/me-capstone-students-shrink-material-testing-apparatus-using-innovative-wave-propagation-techniques/ .

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October 8, 2024 in News Mechanical Engineering (ME) Capstone students at the University of Florida (UF) are collaborating with Professor Ghatu Subhash to revolutionize materials testing by reimagining the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) apparatus. Their goal is to harness the unique propagation....