Category: Awards and Honors

In what he describes as a major highlight of his career, Christopher Ferraro, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2025 Jean-Claude Roumain Innovation in Concrete Award by the American Concrete Institute (ACI).  

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering awarded Sara Behdad, Ph.D., the Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award for the 2025–26 academic year.  

Taylor Rawlinson, Ph.D., has been selected to receive the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Faculty Advisor/Mentor Award for the 2025–26 academic year.  

The University of Florida Institute of Transportation Engineers (UFITE) Student Chapter recently claimed its second T-Bowl title in 12 years.

UF associate professor Alberto Canestrelli, Ph.D., won a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The award will fund his research on protecting sensitive salt marshes with the help of ribbed mussels. 

Engineering Professor Jing “Eric” Du, Ph.D., has been awarded the prestigious Steve and Wendy Blum Endowed Professorship for Industrialized Construction Engineering.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently honored University of Florida assistant engineering professor Gaby Ou, Ph.D., with a prestigious Early CAREER Award to further investigate transmission tower collapses during storms.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) this year has inducted three faculty members from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida as ASCE Fellows: Lily Elefteriadou, Kyle Riding and Scott S. Washburn, all Ph.D.s. 

The Eckhoff Steel Bridge Team has captured its fifth consecutive national title. The championship marks the UF team’s seventh first-place win since 1997, the most wins by a single team in the competition’s 33-year history.

Eliana Rose Duarte, a recent civil engineering graduate of the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, has received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GFRP). The five-year fellowship provides outstanding students in STEM with financial support totaling $159,000 over the course of their PhD. program.     Duarte graduated in December 2024 […]