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Welcome to the Home of Simulation & Training Research at the University of Central Florida
We're at the heart of the Florida High Tech Corridor, a band of counties stretching from Daytona Beach
on the Atlantic Ocean to the Tampa Bay Area on the Gulf of Mexico. The region boasts the highest concentration of simulation and training related
activities in the nation. IST's primary focus is on research to create computer simulation that works smarter and trains
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Two undergrads and four graduate students walked away with "IST Student Researcher of the Year" awards for their outstanding
performance during the 2007-08 academic year. IST "hires" typically more than 80 students each year to assist with research
and gain valuable on-the-job experience. Internships are normally for up to 20 hours a week. Students assist faculty researchers and other research staff in actual contract-, grant- and award-related projects. This research, for many, often leads to co-authorship of reports and papers, trips to conferences and other networking opportunities.
A new high-performance computer obtained through two Army grants totaling $2.6 million will allow IST and UCF to conduct realistic training scenarios with thousands of people training in the same virtual world and to conduct cutting-edge research in the physical and
biological sciences. 
A collaboration among IST, College of Education professors, Computer Science, the Interactive Performance Lab and Lockheed Martin will give
teachers real experience in classroom management. The resulting program will combine technology developed at the IST/Computer Science
Dr. Eduardo Salas, of IST and the Psychology Department, is one of only two recipients of this year's prestigious UCF Pegasus Professor award.
The U.S. Army has awarded IST and UCF a contract worth up to $75 million over five years to support innovative modeling, simulation and training research. The contract between the university and the Army's Research Development and Engineering Command, Simulation and Training Technology Center (RDECOM STTC) is intended to primarily benefit
simulation research and technology that benefits U.S. warfighters, but resulting work will be valuable to the simulation community as a whole.