The College of Engineering at the University of Florida is a comprehensive educational, research, and service component of the university. The College of Engineering has a strong and well recognized undergraduate and graduate instructional and research programs in twelve degree granting departments. These include:Agricultural, Civil, Coastal and Oceanographic, Computer and Information Sciences, Electrical. Engineering Sciences, Environmental,Industrial and Systems, Materials, Mechanical, and Nuclear Engineering.

The College of Engineering student body is comprised of over 2,600 juniors and seniors and over 1,000 graduate students served by about 250 faculty members. The college is also the base of FEEDS, the Florida Engineering Education Delivery System, which provides graduate engineering instruction for Florida's industries. With annual research expenditures of over 27 million dollars in 1987-88, the college has an extensive engineering research program which ranks in the top 6% of some 250 engineering schools in the nation.

The College of Engineering at the University of Florida is an integral part of the institutional structure and has thirteen, four-year ABET accredited undergraduate programs. During its 1989 accreditation review and visitation, all thirteen undergraduate programs received the highest ratings of a six year period until the next visit.

The University of Florida College of Engineering, and the ISE and ChE Departments in particular, have long histories of formal involvement with local and regional manufacturing industries.