About Us

Points of Pride

FACULTY

  • Fulbright Scholar Kyle Reed (2019 - 2020)
  • DARPA SBIR Phase II Grant through OptoXense Tansel Yucelen (2019 - 2021)
  • AFRL Add Work Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • 2019 NSF CAREER award David Murphy (2019)
  • Lockheed Martin Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • NSF Graduate Student Travel Support Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • AFRL Grant through OptoXense Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • USF World Global Achievement Faculty Certificate Alex Volinsky (2018)
  • Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award; University of South Florida Research and Innovation Tansel Yucelen  (2018)
  • Certificate of Recognition for being 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award Nominee; University of South Florida Research and Innovation Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award - Stephanie Carey (2018)
  • 2018 Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award - Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • 2018 Alliance for Citizens with Disabilities Hillsborough County Award - Redwan Alqasemi (2018)
  • NSF I-Corps Award - Rasim Guldiken (2018)
  • 2017-18 Ralph Coats Roe Award - Autar Kaw (2018)
  • Fullbright Specialist in Malaysia Summer 2018 - Autar Kaw (2018)
  • 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowship - David Murphy (2017)
  • NSF Award - Jonathan Gaines (2017)
  • NSF Award - Stephanie Carey (2017)
  • NSF Award - Nathan Crane (2017)
  • NSF Award - Wenjun Cai (2017)
  • 2017 TMS Young Leaders Professional Award - Wenjun Cai (2017)
  • NSF Award - Jonathan Gaines (2017)
  • NSF Award - Stephanie Carey (2017)
  • NSF Award - Autar Kaw (2016)
  • NSF Award - Tansel Yucelen (2016)
  • 2016 USF Global Achievement Faculty Award - Alex Volinsky (2016)
  • Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award - Tansel Yucelen (2016)
  • Ashok Kumar Elevated to Prestigious SME College of Fellows (2016)
  • STEER Institute Scholars Teaching Award - Autar Kaw (2016)
  • NSF Award - Kyle Reed (2016)
  • NSF Award - Nathan Crane (2016)
  • NSF CAREER award - Wenjun Cai (2015)
  • USF Excellence in Innovative Award for Exceptional Achievement in Innovation and Research - Kyle Reed (2015)
  • Best Paper Award by the ASME Design Engineering Division's Mechanisms and Robotics Committee - Craig Lusk (2015)
  • Ashok Kumar elected AIMBE Fellow
  • NSF Award  Alex Volinsky (2014)
  • Fulbright Scholar - Nathan Crane (2014)
  • Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from SAE International - Rasim Guldiken (2014)
  • USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award - Ajit Mujumdar (2014)
  • NSF Innovation Corps Grant - Kyle Reed (2014)
  • Kosove Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Service Award - Autar Kaw (2013)
  • USF Outstanding Faculty Recognition - Ashok Kumar (2013)
  • USF Outstanding Faculty Recognition - Craig Lusk (2013)
  • USF Outstanding Faculty Recognition - Nathan Gallant (2013)
  • U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement & Support of Education awarded to Autar Kaw (2012)
  • ASME Engineer of the Year Award - Rasim Guldiken (2012)
  • USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award - Rasim Guldiken (2012)

 

STUDENTS

  • Finalist in the 2018 AIAA GNC Conference Graduate Student Paper Competition - Ehsan Arabi (2017)
  • 2017 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship - Kaitlin Lostroscio (2017)
  • 2017 American Solar Energy Society John and Barbara Yellott Award - Francesca Moloney (2017)
  • First Place Poster Presentation at IMECE 2016 - Michelle Morency (2016)
  • 2016 USF Engineering Research Day Award - Millicent Schlafly (2016)
  • 2016 USF Engineering Research Day Award - Justin Nussbaum (2016)
  • 2016 Graduate Student Research Symposium Award - Mustafa Mashali (2016)
  • Honorable Mention for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Daniel Capecci (2016)
  • 2015 Present-a-Bull Award - Christina-Anne Lahiff (2016)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Francesca Moloney (2016)
  • Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) - Francesca Moloney (2016)
  • Best Paper Award by ASME Design Engineering Division's Mechanisms and Robotics Committee - Ahmad Alqasimi (2015)
  • NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship - Joel Cooper (2015)
  • NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) - Joel Cooper (2015)
  • ASME Student Engineer of the Year Awarded to Katie Hart (2014-15)
  • SEI Scholarship awarded to Jamie Trahan (2014)
  • NSF Fellowship awarded to Laura Byrnes-Blanco (2014)
  • ASME Student Engineer of the Year Awarded to Marcos A. Robles (2013)
  • ASME Graduate Teaching Fellowship awarded to Jamie Trahan (2013)
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) awarded to Laura Byrnes-Blanco (2013)
  • Our students come from over 35 countries from around the world