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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 […]

The Geo-Institute (G-I) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently named John H. Schmertmann, Ph.D., a Geo-Legend. Schmertmann,  a retired University of Florida emeritus professor, built a career contributing to geotechnical engineering research, teaching, and practice.    The G-I  has developed a series of episodes  featuring prominent engineers in the geotechnical field. In […]

Following the devastation of Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Hurricane Ian in 2022, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) reached out to University of Florida researchers to assess the downed street light poles that were toppled and damaged by high winds. The aluminum poles, which were designed to withstand high wind speeds, unexpectedly failed during […]