Welcome to the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) at the University of Florida’s digital newsletter. Each semester, you will receive an email from us highlighting School updates and successes. We look forward to connecting with you!
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Spring 2021 Letter from the Director
Hello Alumni and Colleagues, As we move past the year mark since COVID changed the world, I wish you all continued health and resilience as the world continues to open.…
Kirk Hatfield, Ph.D.
Director,
Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment
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Phillips Receives NSF Grant to Optimize Buildings
A building’s shape is one of the earliest design decisions that has an impact on its structural system, performance, life-cycle costs and architectural appeal. The current design of buildings is based on blueprints that have historically provided good performance for structural loads, performance under extreme loads and life-cycle costs. Brian…
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History in the Making: Darina Castillo
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 site manager and what she is doing to inspire those…
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UF NHERI Receives a Five-Year, $4.5 Million NSF Grant to Continue Wind Hazard Research and Expand K-12 Training Programs
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 of an existing Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Experimental…
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Efficiently Disassembling End-of-Use Products
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 end-of-use products. Remanufacturing is an industrial process that takes an…