Fawn Bergen (B.S. Environmental Engineering ‘99) has emerged as a leader in the global sustainability initiative. Her role as Global Sustainability Program Manager at Intel Corporation fulfills her lifelong passion in math, science and the environment. “I am leading Intel’s… Read More
Thomas Lutza (BSCE ’19) was named a University of Florida (UF) Outstanding Four-Year Scholar at the Outstanding Leaders & Scholars ceremony on December 13. Lutza just received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.… Read More
Rethinking How To Rebuild After Hurricanes This article is written by David O. Prevatt, Jason von Meding and Ksenia Chmutina and was originally published in The Conversation.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program has awarded $1.1 million to Christopher Ferraro, Ph.D., P.E., to perform research on the prevention of damage on concrete used to house nuclear reactors. When concrete is exposed… Read More
Charles “Chick” (BSCE ’72) and Lisa Gregg, UF Alumni Association life members, were vacationing in Colorado with their friend and partner, Mark Neubauer, when news of Hurricane Dorian’s imminent landfall reached them. Very quickly, their carefree vacation turned into a… Read More
Christine Angelini, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, has received two awards for her achievements in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences — the 2019 Water Institute Faculty Fellow Early Career Award and… Read More
This article is written by Tom Lombardo, and originally published in the engineering.com website. Dr. Jennifer Bridge, professor of civil engineering at the University of Florida, is working to make sure that the growth of low-power smart sensors, the Internet of… Read More
Municipal solid waste (MSW) includes the household waste we carry to the curb each week in our trash cans and recycle bins. Most MSW is composed of food, paper, plastic, and a variety of other discarded products and packaging materials.… Read More
Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., associate professor of civil engineering in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), along with colleagues from Texas A&M University and Virginia Tech, has been awarded a $999,327 grant by the National Science Foundation’s… Read More
Civil and Coastal Engineering professor Alex Sheremet, Ph.D., is collaborating with the UF College of Medicine and the McKnight Brain Institute on two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to apply his knowledge in nonlinear dynamics to advance… Read More