For the third year in a row, the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment’s (ESSIE) Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering and Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences are ranked among the top 20 public universities, according to the 2022… Read More
Darina Castillo, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in environmental engineering sciences in 2013. After graduating, she accepted a position at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management. She gives a brief overview of her journey to her position as… Read More
Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., an associate professor of civil and coastal engineering within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, received an award from NASA’s Human Research Program to investigate teleoperation robot delays. NASA reports there are perceivable delays… Read More
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A paper recently published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE) suggests a new approach is needed to study the depletion of oxygen in the ocean. The paper describes a need to shift our focus from temperate… Read More
Researchers in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida received a $4.5 million cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This funding is a renewal… Read More
Sara Behdad, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create human-robot collaboration (HRC) and improve the disassembly of… Read More
This article was written by Miles Grant and originally published on the Woodwell Climate Research Center website. Kathe Todd-Brown, Ph.D., an assistant professor of environmental engineering sciences, and her team will try to increase the availability of high quality data and… Read More
This article was written by Karl Schneider and originally published on the Naples Daily News website. Myoseon Jang, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences, and her team discovered that toxins in algal aerosol can be rapidly transformed in the… Read More
The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) is excited to welcome four new faculty members. Sara Behdad, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences Dr. Behdad received her doctorate in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering from the… Read More