Category: News

With fly ash supplies dwindling, a new UF-led study funded by NCHRP is exploring alternative materials to enhance the strength, durability, and sustainability of concrete used in transportation infrastructure.

Less than a month after UF’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge Team made history by capturing its fifth consecutive national title, another UF civil engineering team paddled its way to its fifth national title (four in the last six years). 

Armed with a $7 million grant from the Army Corp of Engineers, University of Florida researchers are working to bolster shoreline resilience and restore troubled wetlands in St. Augustine through nature-based solutions.

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.

2025 Letter from the Director  Greetings alumni and colleagues,   As we move forward this semester, I’m proud to highlight the many accomplishments of our staff, faculty, and students — each making meaningful contributions that impact our school and extend far beyond. It’s a fitting reflection for my final article as I step down as director.  […]

A $7.5 million, five-year project funded by the Office of Naval Research is breaking new ground in tidal mudflats research.   Led by Nina Stark, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, this ambitious initiative brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from five universities across the country. The project […]

Members of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) elected Elliot Douglas, Ph.D., a professor and department head of environmental engineering sciences and professor of engineering education, as vice president of finance. He’ll serve a two-year term beginning in June 2025, during which he will lead the finance committee and work with ASEE finance staff […]

Championships keep rolling in for University of Florida ASCE chapters, as student teams won first place overall earlier this month at the ASCE Southeast Student Symposium in Athens, Ga. “UF took first out of 19 universities,” noted ASCE student chapter advisor Mark Newman, Ph.D. “Our students also made more history as the first university in […]

Xiang “Jacob” Yan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, is trying to make public transit more appealing to passengers and potential users.  Traditional approaches for bus stop amenities assessment often rely on manual surveys of each stop, which can be labor intensive. Instead, Yan and his research team developed […]