Engineering Leadership Circle — University of Florida

People. Ideas. Shared experience.

ELC in action.

Leadership grows through the people around us. Explore the conversations, experiences and communities that bring our Circle together.

Fall 2026

October recruitment events

Updates on @uf.elc →

Monday

Pumpkin carving on the lawn

Plaza of the Americas

Get to know ELC over pumpkin carving.

Thursday

Reitz bowling

Reitz Union

Free bowling with the Circle.

Monday

Open GBM

WERT 360 · announced venue

Guest speaker and free food.

Room confirmation pending. Check @uf.elc for the final location before attending.

All times are Eastern. Follow @uf.elc for any schedule or location updates.

Attendees gathered for a group photo at ELC’s Fall 2026 Leadership Summit.

Fall 2026

ELC Leadership Summit

Bringing engineering leaders together to connect across organizations and disciplines.

Three attendees talking in the atrium during ELC’s Fall 2026 Leadership Summit.
Conversations across organizations.
Leadership Summit attendees discussing membership retention around a table.
Sharing perspectives on membership retention.
An overhead view of attendees talking in small groups at the Fall 2026 Leadership Summit.
Connections across the engineering community.

Shared perspectives, year after year

A look at earlier Flagship programs and the people who bring engineering leadership to life.

A speaker addressing attendees from a University of Florida podium at ELC’s Fall Flagship.

Fall Flagship

Making space for shared perspectives and conversation.

A speaker presenting a personal leadership journey at ELC’s Spring 2024 Flagship.

Spring 2024 Flagship

Learning from the experiences of other leaders.

More from the Circle

Programs, collaborations and alumni perspectives

Spring 2026

McKinsey × ELC Consulting Showcase

A consulting event developed with the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the Center for Experiential Learning, connecting students with McKinsey representatives and UF alumni.

Spring 2026 Flagship

Engineering Your Engagements

A program exploring character, engineering study abroad, capstone projects, and IPPD, co-hosted with FES, FLEG, and EII IGNITE.

2025–2026

Alumni perspectives

ELC alumni shared experiences from engineering careers at SpaceX, L3Harris, and Anheuser-Busch.

Summer 2026 internships

Engineering experience beyond campus

ELC members’ summer 2026 internship destinations span technology, finance, aerospace and national research organizations.

  • Amazon logo

    Amazon

  • Capital One logo

    Capital One

  • GE Aerospace logo

    GE Aerospace

  • Lockheed Martin logo

    Lockheed Martin

  • Sandia National Laboratories logo

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • Johnson & Johnson logo

    Johnson & Johnson

Additional internship destinations

  • Visa
  • Gulfstream
  • Technetics Group
  • HDT Global
  • CDM Smith
  • eXp Realty
  • Zebra
  • EY
  • Jacobs
  • Walmart
  • Thornton Tomasetti
  • Tallgrass
  • WGI
  • New York Life
  • Raymond James

Member involvement

One Circle.
Many communities.

ELC members have brought leadership experience from engineering societies, design teams and campus organizations across UF.

Examples of involvement over the years. Members’ affiliations vary by year.

Student organizations and design teams

  • Generational Relief in Prosthetics (GRiP) logo

    GRiP

  • Solar Gators logo

    Solar Gators

  • Swamp Launch logo

    Swamp Launch

  • Liquid Propulsion Team logo

    Liquid Propulsion Team

  • Gator TPED logo

    Gator TPED

  • Software Engineering Club logo

    Software Engineering Club

  • Engineers Without Borders at UF logo

    Engineers Without Borders at UF

  • Timber-Strong Design Build logo

    Timber-Strong Design Build

  • Society of Women Engineers at UF logo

    UF SWE

  • Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers logo

    SASE

  • Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers at UF logo

    UF IISE

  • Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering logo

    Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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  • Florida Engineering Society logo

    Florida Engineering Society

  • American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers logo

    American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

  • American Society of Civil Engineers at UF logo

    UF ASCE

  • National Society of Black Engineers, Gator Chapter logo

    NSBE Gator Chapter

  • IEEE UF Student Branch logo

    IEEE at UF

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics logo

    AIAA

  • Florida Intellectual Property Alliance logo

    Florida Intellectual Property Alliance

  • Freshman Leadership Engineering Group logo

    FLEG

  • Engineering Ambassadors logo

    Engineering Ambassadors

  • Dream Team Engineering logo

    Dream Team Engineering

  • Undergraduate Research Scholars Program logo

    Undergraduate Research Scholars Program

  • Florida Cicerones logo

    Florida Cicerones

Research experience

Research groups, labs and areas represented in members’ experience over the years.

  • UF Digital Worlds Institute logo

    UF Digital Worlds Institute

  • Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL) logo

    Machine Intelligence Lab

Additional research experience

  • Anumaan AI Ethics Framework Research Group
  • Environmental Biotechnology
  • Intertape Polymer Group
  • Computational Reasoning Group
  • SMILE Lab
  • Design and Manufacturing Lab
  • Micro Air Vehicles Lab
  • Nino Research Group
  • Allen Lab

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