Sara Behdad is an associate professor at the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. Her research focuses on sustainable design, e-waste management, process modeling, decision analysis, and product lifecycle engineering.
Research Areas
Sustainable Materials Management – Product Lifecycle Engineering, Design for Sustainability
Research Interests
E-waste Management, Sustainable Design, Decision Analysis, Product Lifecycle Engineering
Education
Ph.D., Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, 2013, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Eric Jing Du is a professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at UF. Before joining academia, he was a senior data analyst at Zachry Industrial. Dr.Du received his PhD degree in construction from Michigan State University (2012) and bachelor degree in Civil Engineering (2004) from Tianjin University in China. His current research interests focus on the development of the next generation Intelligent Information Systems for future Civil Engineering works.…
Christopher Ferraro specializes in the development sustainable, high-performance cement-based materials & carbon-dioxide produced as part of the construction involving portland cement concrete. The concrete materials research group conducts research on a wide variety issues and include efforts across cross disciplinary research efforts within civil engineering as well other departments including; Environmental, Materials, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering.…
Steven Laux joined UF in January 2017 after a 32-year career as a civil engineer, practicing in the fields of solid waste management system design and infrastructure design for the aerospace industry. He teaches courses in solid waste systems design, containment system design, civil engineering practice and construction engineering design. His research has focused on sustainable materials management, including beneficial reuse, recycling and municipal solid waste landfill topics.…
Dr. Najafi, received his BS, MS and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is a UF professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. He has published and presented more than 300-refereed publications nationally, and internationally. He has received numerous awards: a Senior Fulbright Scholar, teaching, and best paper awards, He specializes in transportation planning, construction management, legal aspects, and renewable energy.…
Dr. Ou’s research is inspired by the community-centered informed hazard-oriented decision-making, which lead to the development of high fidelity and computational efficient regional-scale simulation platform. Her research experience includes physical and surrogate modeling of complex civil infrastructure systems, machine learning, information theory, advanced experimental testing, model updating, and the integration of data analytics with physical-based modeling.…
Kyle A. Riding is a Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. He is active in concrete durability research including early-age concrete behavior, mass concrete construction, ultra-high performance concrete, and concrete electrical tests and transport test methods. He is chair of the Precast/ Prestressed Concrete Institute Concrete Materials Technology committee and ACI 231 Properties of Concrete at Early Ages and a voting member of ACI committees 201, 207, 236, and 318A.…
Dr. Simmons passionately pursues workforce research that bridges the space between understanding the future of work in civil engineering in the United States and characterizing, measuring, and evaluating the competencies, learning technologies, and ecosystems that equip and sustain an inclusive workforce for that future. She is concerned first about the human condition and driven and inspired by what an organization can achieve by attending to the needs of its people.…
Primary Research Area
Sustainable Materials Management
Other Research Areas
Geosystems Engineering
Sustainable Construction Engineering
Area of Specialty
Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
Education
Univ Florida, BS, Environmental Engineering Sciences, 12/89
Univ Florida, ME, Environmental Engineering Sciences, 8/92
Univ Florida, PhD, Environmental Engineering Sciences, 5/95
William A. (Bill) Wallace teaches an EDGE course, ENV6932, Principles of Sustainable Engineering Design. He is an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Fellow and is currently leading an ASCE effort develop a Manual of Practice for sustainable infrastructure design. He is also the inventor and lead designer of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision Rating System.…