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Engineering Faculty Spotlight at 2024 Florida Inventor’s Hall of Fame
Celebrate USF Professor Daniel Yeh’s induction into the 2024 Florida Inventors Hall of Fame! Renowned for the NEWgenerator, his innovative sanitation solution brings clean water and renewable energy to communities in need. Learn more about his impactful work
November 25, 2024Civil Environmental, Faculty, Research
USF College of Engineering Faculty Honored as 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholars
Congratulations to two USF Engineering Faculty! Discover how USF College of Engineering’s distinguished faculty, Dr. J. Morris Chang and Dr. Mauricio Arias, are driving innovation worldwide as 2024-2025 Fulbright Scholars. Learn about Dr. Chang’s advancements in privacy-preserving machine learning and Dr. Arias’s impactful research in environmental sustainability.
November 6, 2024Civil Environmental, Electrical, Faculty, Research
Daniel Yeh's NEWGenerator scores AUTM Better World Project Award for USF
USF has been awarded the AUTM Better Project Award, thanks to USF's Technology Transfer Office, Civil & Environmental Engineering professor Daniel Yeh and Yeh's NEWGenerator, a solar-powered innovation providing off-grid water sanitation for people in remote locations.
February 23, 2024Civil Environmental, Faculty, Research
USF Alums Trishelle Copeland-Johnson And Christopher Allemang Advancing Their Fields At Department Of Energy-Contracted National Labs
As a Glenn T. Seaborg Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Idaho National Laboratory, USF chemical engineering alum Trishelle Copeland-Johnson researches the corrosion mechanisms of materials used in creating clean energy of the future.
February 13, 2024Civil Environmental
Capstone Class Project Wins Competition with Wastewater Solution
Students from Professor Sarina Ergas' Capstone Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Design class won first prize in the 2017 Florida Water Environment Association (FWEA) Wastewater Division Student Design Competition.
February 8, 2024Civil Environmental
USF researchers to play key role in making Tampa roads safer
Researchers from the University of South Florida are partnering with the City of Tampa to develop innovative solutions that will lead to safer travel conditions along busy roads within the city. The initiative stems from a new $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation received by the city and announced by Tampa Mayor Jane Castor.
November 12, 2023Civil Environmental, Research
USF Engineering Undergraduates Win First Place In The Florida Water Environment Association Student Design Competition
A team of undergraduate students from the University of South Florida’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering won first place in the FWEA Student Design Competition. The USF team members are Adele Howard, Daniela Montoya, Fabricio Escobar, and Olta Tarko.
August 31, 2023Civil Environmental
Katherine Alfredo Selected As JSB Environmental Fellowship Recipient
Solving 21st Century environmental engineering problems requires a new generation of leaders in academia and industry. One initiative developing a cadre of enviro-centric professionals is the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program of Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
January 24, 2023Civil Environmental
USF engineers awarded $2.5 million federal grant to expand harmful algal bloom research
USF engineers are leading a team of scientists across the state in the development of a new, state-of-the-art system that allows water districts to better predict and manage harmful algal blooms.
January 11, 2023Civil Environmental
$27.5 Million Collection of Grants Focuses on Sustainability and Equity
Directing research efforts toward projects that address important issues has resulted in several high-profile grant awards and recognition for Professor Maya Trotz of the University of South Florida College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
December 12, 2022Civil Environmental
Waste To Water Technology Developed By College Of Engineering Researchers In Commercial Production
A solution to the problem of providing sanitation facilities to people living without them is now more readily available as technology developed at the University of South Florida College of Engineering enters the marketplace.
December 12, 2022Civil Environmental
Cooperation Among Hydropower Producers Could Hold The Answer To Reviving The Mighty Mekong
Scientists in Florida, Maryland and Singapore show that restoring natural water availability to the Mekong’s floodplains is possible.
November 17, 2022Civil Environmental