{"id":139074,"date":"2024-02-02T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=139074"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:01:47","slug":"ucf-to-grow-next-generation-of-digital-twin-researchers-with-new-graduate-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-to-grow-next-generation-of-digital-twin-researchers-with-new-graduate-program\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF to Grow Next Generation of Digital Twin Researchers with New Graduate Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new UCF graduate certificate program will focus on strengthening the university\u2019s talent pipeline to the rapidly growing digital twin industry in Central Florida and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ist.ucf.edu\/\">UCF School of Modeling, Simulation and Training<\/a> received a $1.155 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to establish and launch the new program, which is expected to start in Spring or Fall of 2025. The grant, part of the Department of Education (DOE) Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, or FIPSE, program, started this month. SMST faculty will spend this year developing the new program and the next two years implementing and evaluating it.<\/p>\n<p>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 on products, processes, and systems.<\/p>\n<p>The new DOE grant will allow UCF to expand educational programs focused on digital\u00a0twin. 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As part of a 2022 Department of Commerce grant awarded to Osceola County and several partners, UCF researchers are replicating the semiconductor production line at the Center for NeoVation in Osceola County, with a goal of increasing productivity and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>Digital twin research is also a focus of UCF\u2019s Strategic Investment Program. Led by <strong>Grace Bochenek \u201998PhD<\/strong>, director of SMST, that collaboration also includes faculty from engineering and computer science, psychology, and arts and humanities. The goal is to develop a digital twin framework and tools that can be adapted by governments, industry, and academia based on their needs. 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