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We’re cheering on our University of Florida Concrete Canoe team (aka “Team ZEST”) at San Diego State University this week as they compete in the 31st ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition. UF will compete against teams from all over the U.S., with Canada, China, and India making up the remainder of the 26 teams competing […]

This month, the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) journal, selected the manuscript, Understanding Students’ Incentives for and Barriers to Out-of-Class Participation: Profile of Civil Engineering Student Engagement for its editor’s choice recognition. The manuscript is based on work from a NSF CAREER project [Award […]

David O. Prevatt, Associate Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering and Associate Director of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Center (NHERI) was recently featured in the Orlando Sentinel for his research on wind-resistant building techniques. The Orlando Sentinel article commended the state of Florida for being ranked as the top in the nation for […]