Woo Hyoung Lee will investigate the critical challenges affecting drinking water infrastructure, supported by a $300,000 NSF grant.
Discover how the work will help mitigate corrosion and improve public health in the future: bit.ly/4yXJK71
Professor Thomas Wahl is part of a $1.5M project to determine the best types of natural infrastructure to support flood resilience along the North Carolina coast. Their work will provide a framework for other coastal communities, including in Florida. tinyurl.com/yysrywth
Thank you to all of our attendees, employees and sponsors who supported this semester's CECE Career Mixer! We had a great time networking with you and look forward to hosting this again in the spring. We hope to see you there!
Did you know...flooding times are actually predictable? Learn more about this groundbreaking discovery in the latest study from Professor Ivan Haigh. tinyurl.com/yc3k24xr
In this episode of our podcast, we chat with UCF Coastal Director Ivan Haigh to talk about the Center. We also ask the tough questions, such as Zambia or England, coffee or tea, and whether he would prefer to control weather or tides (take a guess!). 🌊 tinyurl.com/2zbtc4w6
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We're proud to share that UCF's transportation science and technology programs are ranked No. 2 in the nation by ShanghaiRanking! ✨
Discover how our researchers have kept UCF's transportation ranking in the Top 10 for the last seven years: bit.ly/4y8lw9Q
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Congratulations to environmental engineering student Jacob Smith! He received the Roy W. Likins Scholarship from the Florida Section of the American Water Works Association: bit.ly/46nf42u
Thanks to Ivan Haigh from UCF Coastal for providing his expertise on the recent flooding in Nepal! tinyurl.com/478bfy9u mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news…
Working with the Central Florida Expressway Authority, Professor Haitham Al-Deek has been developing innovative solutions that have significantly decreased wrong-way driving.
Thank you to WFTV's Alexa Lorenzo for covering their progress!
We're proud to share that we have three new faculty members joining us this semester! Help us welcome Yohanna Mejia Cruz, Alexandra Schueller and Shahrior Pervaz to the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering! bit.ly/3UjwoT6
We're so proud! ✨
The UCF chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers brought home multiple honors from the ASCE National Championships. Learn more about their stellar accomplishments: bit.ly/45tWK74
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Congratulations to Muhammed Shahbaz ’25 and Thamed Chowdhury for taking home the third-place prize at the DriveX Grand Challenge held at the annual conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)!
Learn more about their work: bit.ly/4vX10XO
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Associate Professor Arvind Singh and postdoctoral scholar Dnyanesh Borse are using river geometry to help scientists better understand how rivers shape Earth and how ancient landscapes formed on Mars and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
Learn more: bit.ly/3T77rd8
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Congratulations to Professor Ni-bin Chang for being inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame! ✨
Learn more about his work: bit.ly/4b23b4L
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CNN reached out to Professor Necati Catbas for their report on "pancake" building collapses following the two devastating earthquakes that hit Venezuela, He helped explain the effect and how it is complicating rescue efforts.
Learn more from CNN: bit.ly/4vhZT4J
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UCF's chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has a number of projects coming up in the fall, from club socials to career fairs, plus hands-on experiences like blueprint readings and site visits.
Learn more about the RSO on Instagram at @abc.ucf.
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This Knight made a real-world impact before even stepping onto the UCF campus!
Civil engineering student Tristen Zanfini won a high school design contest for a gazebo to be built at Langford Park in Jensen Beach, Florida. Learn more about the project: bit.ly/44sur8F
We're so proud! 🎉
Congratulations to graduate assistant Krishna Pratap Sah, who earned the American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Scholarship! Learn more about his research: bit.ly/4vUqlSE
A new study involving UCF researcher and Associate Professor Thomas Wahl has found that historical one-in-100-year extreme coastal water level events are now occurring about every eight years.
Learn more the work published in Nature Climate Change: bit.ly/4eaaRUr
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A research team that includes UCF Associate Professor Thomas Wahl found that sinking land and rising sea levels are occurring more rapidly, increasing the risk of flooding.
Learn more about the study: bit.ly/4vG4MoE