Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Nicholas Albergo, PE, DEE, MSCE
Professor of Practice - Environmental
Office: ENC 3215 | Email | 813-974-2275
Dr. Katherine Alfredo, PE
Assistant Professor - Environmental
Office: ENC 3212 | Email | Phone: 813-974-9612
Research Areas: Drinking water quality and treatment, sustainable potable water provisions, US and international water quality regulation, community support of drinking water technology and utilities
Dr. Jeffrey A. Cunningham
Professor - Environmental
Office: ENC 3215 | Email | 813-974-9540 | Website
Research Areas: Contaminant fate/transport, Physical, chemical, & biological processes for water treatment/water quality control, Water resources & water reuse, Groundwater remediation, Geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide
Dr. Manjriker Gunaratne, PE
Professor and Department Chair - Geotechnical
Office: ENC 3303 | Email | 813-974-5818
Research Areas: Modeling of soil and pavement material behavior, modeling of uncertainty in geotechnical systems using probability methods, fuzzy sets and neural networks, application of numerical techniques to pavement design and management, application of digital imaging and satellite technology to solve geotechnical and pavement engineering problems.
Dr. Stanley C. Kranc, PE
Structures and Materials Professor Emeritus
Office: ENG 303 | Email | 813-974-5821
Research Areas: Fluid mechanics/heat transfer, Numerical analysis/modeling, Philosophy/history of Technology
Dr. Pei-Sung Lin, P.E., PTOE, FITE
Program Director, ITS, Traffic Operations and Safety, Center for Urban Transportation Research
Office: CUTR 125 | Email | 813-974-4910
Research Areas: ITS, Traffic operations, Safety
Dr. Fred L. Mannering
Professor and Associate Dean for Research - Transportation
Office: ENC 3506 | Email | 813-974-5817 | Website
Research Areas: Statistical & econometric methods, Highway safety, Transportation economics, Automobile demand, Travel behavior.
Dr. Michael Maness
Assistant Professor - Transportation
Office: CUTR 233 | Email | 813-974-6144 | Website
Research Areas: Travel Behavior, Travel Demand Forecasting, Choice Modeling, Modeling Social Interactions, Emerging Transportation Technologies, Sustainable Transportation, Travel Survey Methods.
Dr. James R. Mihelcic, BCEEM
Environmental | Samuel L. and Julia M. Flom Endowed Professor | Director, National Center for Reinventing Aging Infrastructure for Nutrient Management
Office: ENC 3508 | Email | 813-974-9896 | Website
Research Areas: Sustainability, Impact of anthropogenic stressors on water resources, Water supply, Water reuse, Nutrient management, Water/ sanitation/ hygiene (WASH) in the developing world, Engineering education.
Dr. Mahmood Nachabe, PE
Professor - Water Resources
Office: ENG 320 | Email | 813-974-5837 | CV
Research Areas: Hydraulics & water supply systems, Soil & ecosystem hydrology, Flow & contaminant transport in porous media, Stochastic hydrology
Karim Nohra
Associate Instructor, Undergraduate advisor - Engineering Education
Office: ENC 3301 | Email | 813-974-5594
Research Areas:: Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Education
Dr. Michael J. Stokes, PE
Associate Professor of Instruction - Structures and Materials
Office: ENG 43 | Email | 813-974-8244
Research Areas: Foundation load testing, Non-destructive foundation integrity testing, FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer) repair of corroding piles, Engineering education.
Dr. Andrés E. Tejada-Martínez
Professor - Water Resources
Office: ENC 3207 | Email | 813-974-1738 | Website
Research Areas: Numerical simulations of turbulent flows; vertical turbulent mixing in the upper ocean and coastal shelves; mixing/hydraulic efficiency of water and wastewater treatment systems; finite element, finite difference and spectral methods for fluids; parallel computing.
Dr. Maya A. Trotz
Professor | Faculty Fellow at Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions - Environmental
Office: ENC 3502 | Email | 813-974-3172 | Website
Research Areas: Sustainability, Water quality, Ecotourism & small scale mining impacts on sustainable livelihoods, Climate change, Environmental engineering education in formal & informal settings in the US and in developing countries
Dr. Daniel H. Yeh, PE, LEED AP
Professor - Environmental
Office: ENC 3213 | Email | 813-974-4746 | Website
Research Areas: Water purification, wastewater resource recovery and life support in challenging, off-grid and remote environments; Autonomous, self-powered water machines; Anaerobic and phototrophic membrane bioreactors; Food-to-food (F2F) Biorecycling; Innovations at water-energy-food nexus.
Dr. Abla Zayed
Professor - Structures and Materials
Office: ENG 221 | Email | 813-974-5823
Research Areas: Cementitious systems, Construction materials durability
Dr. Qiong Zhang
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator - Environmental
Office: ENC 3214 | Email | 813-974-6448 | Website
Research Areas: Green engineering, Sustainability, Life cycle assessment, Water-energy nexus, coupled nature-human system modeling, Environmental fate & transport modeling, Water supply & treatment, Engineering education
Dr. Yu Zhang
Professor - Transportation
Office: ENC3211/CUT220|Email |813-974-5846 |Website
Program Director - CUTR Advanced Air Mobility
Research Areas: Multimodal transportation systems modeling & analysis, Air traffic management & Airport operation and management & Advanced Air Mobility, Sustainable transportation, Transportation Resilience
Dr. Hao Zhou
Assistant Professor - Transportation
Office: CUTR 231 | Email | Website
Research Areas: Traffic flow theory, Network Science, Self-driving design and experiments, Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Kristin Morico
Professor - Adjunct
Office: ENC 3210 | Email
Research Areas: Potable water supply/operations/design/policy, Wastewater design/operations, Air quality policy/science/design, Waste policy/management/circular economy, Remedial investigation/policy/design, ESG/sustainability, Environment/health/safety compliance
Dr. Zachary B. Haber, PE
Assistant Professor - Structures and Materials
Office: ENG 041 | Email | Website
Research Areas: Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC), Reinforced and Pre-stressed Concrete Structures, Bridge Engineering, Strengthening and Preservation of Structures, Sustainable and Advanced Materials
Dr. Rajan Sen, PE, FACI, FASCE
Emeritus Professor and Jefferson Science Fellow - Structures and Materials
Office: ENG 41 | Email | 813-974-5820
Research Areas: Structural engineering including design of bridges, Dynamic response of structures, Dynamic behavior of piles, Pre-stress concrete
Dr. Alberto Sagüés, PE, FNACE
Emeritus Distinguished University Professor - Structures and Materials
Office: ENL 112 | Email | 813-974-5819 | Website
Research Areas: Materials engineering, Corrosion performance of materials for construction & energy applications, Failure analysis & prevention, Physical metallurgy