The dean of the college is Michael Georgiopoulos, Ph.D.[2] UCF is listed as a university with "very high research activity" by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

[3] With an enrollment of over 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students as of Fall 2012, the college is one of the premier engineering schools in the United States.

[5] The university has made noted research contributions to modeling and simulation, digital media, and engineering and computer science.

The State University System of Florida's Board of Regents approved the creation of a college of engineering on September 16, 1966.

[7] The college saw the completion of a third Engineering Building which was designed in 2000-2002 for the School of EECS with a $15 million allocation from the State of Florida.

[4] It also featured/features in the Top 100 Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences schools in the world in the ARWU by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Metropolitan Orlando sustains the world's largest recognized cluster of modeling, simulation and training companies.

[21][22][23] UCF also houses a satellite campus at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.