Last year, the University of Florida allocated $1.75 million to build Florida’s Digital Twin, starting with Jacksonville.
This project will provide detailed insights about buildings, roads, and infrastructure and utilize augmented reality headsets to assess flood risks.
The collaboration involves multiple units on campus and aims to enhance urban planning and resilience.
The university also houses HiPerGator, the fastest supercomputer in U.S. higher education, and multiple AI experts.
The project is part of broader efforts to enhance patient care and healthcare efficiency.
In February 2024, the University of Central Florida (UCF) School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training received a $1.155 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to establish a new program, expected to start in the spring or fall of 2025.
The grant will enable UCF to build on its academic and research strengths in digital twins, which are digital replicas of complex real-world systems.
By manipulating digital twins, scientists, doctors, urban planners, and others can analyze, predict, optimize, and make real-time decisions about products, processes, and systems.
The new DOE grant will allow UCF to expand educational programs focused on digital twins.
Graduate students enrolled in the program would learn about designing, implementing, managing, and creating innovations for digital twin technologies.
They would gain real-life experiences through industry as part of the program.
School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training faculty will spend 2024 developing the new program and the next two years implementing and evaluating it.
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