Category: Awards and Honors

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 […]

Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., is a civil engineering professor at the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment within the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Du’s research focuses on human-robot collaboration and mixed reality exploring robotics design to enhance training on how we interact with robots. His work aims to develop AI, augmented reality, and […]

The University of Florida Research Foundation has recently named 34 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2024. Two professors Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., the Barbara Goldsby Professor in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, and Timothy Townsend, Ph.D., the Jones, Edmunds & Associates, Inc. Professor in the Department of […]

This article was originally published on the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s New Engineer news site. We are thrilled to announce that five exceptional Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering alumni have been honored with the university’s “40 under 40” awards. These remarkable individuals exemplify the spirit of innovation and leadership, making significant contributions to their […]