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School of Science & Engineering Honored with Industry Excellence Award
Dick Baker, Leo ter Haar
Charles Wood, Sheila Bowman
The School of Science and Engineering was honored in early October with an Industry Excellence award from the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. The award recognizes employers that have demonstrated excellence in targeted industries, outstanding community involvement and otherwise contributed to the prosperity and economic health of the region. The School of Science and Engineering was given this award due to its offering of next generation learning and program specialities.
Scholarships Available: Masters of Science in Computer Science, Specialization in Database Systems
The Department of Computer Science at the University of West Florida is now accepting applications for 30 scholarships, supported through a grant from Florida’s Great Northwest, which will cover 80% of the tuition in the first semester of study (fall, 2010) for students enrolling in the newly available Masters of Science in Computer Science, specialization in Database Systems at the University of West Florida. For more information regarding this new master’s program or the scholarship, please visit: http://uwf.edu/computerscience/graduate/db/ or contact: Dr. Sikha Bagui at bagui@uwf.edu.
UWF Student Gains Hands-On Experience in Tornado Chasing
"'Twister' is my favorite movie," admitted Chelsea Lovrekovic as she began discussing her weeklong adventure with Extreme Chase Tours where she had the opportunity to study these funnels up close.
A mathematics senior at UWF, Lovrekovic incorporated this tour as part of her studies for her senior pro-seminar, which is an independent research project required by the UWF Department of Mathematics and Statistics to promote active learning. Her intention is to employ the statistical models used in storm chasing as the basis for her research while she explores an exciting real-life application of her studies. Read More...
Gulf Power Foundation OKs $200,000 for Labs
The Gulf Power Foundation has approved a $200,000 grant to UWF to help equip its Electrical Engineering "Power Lab" as well as fund the curriculum. Gulf Power Company also provided consultation and direction for the design of the state-of-the-art Power Lab which will include three phase circuits, transformers, motors and generators, transmission line models, unbalanced system operations, fault analysis, system protection and metering.
Physics in SEASTARS 2010 Competition
Tracy Lawson , Michael Kordell II , Jacques Perry , Holly Renaud , Chandra Prayaga, and Laszlo Ujj win the Physics as and Audience Choice Award sponsored by Business Computer Accounting for their poster - Investigation of Dielectric Properties of liquid Crystals near Phase Transitions.
SEASTARS is the Scholars of Engineering, Applied Sciences & Technology Annual Research Symposium held each spring.Other winners of the SEASTARS symposium are listed in the 2009 volume of the UWF Argojournal.