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Five Women In Engineering Win 2020 USF Golden Bull Awards
Presented by the USF Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, the award is one of USF’s highest honors and is given to 20 undergraduate and graduate students who exemplify exceptional leadership and service to USF. Five of this year's awardees are women of all degree levels in the College of Engineering.
February 27, 2020Biological, Civil Environmental, Computer
Three USF Engineering Faculty Members Recognized With Excellence In Innovation Awards
Of the five USF faculty members awarded with the university's latest Excellence in Innovation Awards, three are College of Engineering faculty members.
January 13, 2020Biological, Civil Environmental, Computer
Interdisciplinary USF Team Launching $1 Million S-STEM Scholarship Project To Support Graduate Students Underrepresented In STEM
USF Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Sarina Ergas (top left), Ph.D., is a co-principal investigator on the NSF-funded project, and department professors James Mihelcic (bottom left), Ph.D., Maya Trotz (top right), Ph.D., and Qiong Zhang (bottom right), Ph.D. have been closely involved with the grant’s development.
December 16, 2019Civil Environmental
Turning Coastal Communities Into Clean Water Converters
Researchers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF are preparing to begin lab work on a project that could have significant impacts on where coastal communities, including Tampa Bay, source their clean water from.
September 12, 2019Civil Environmental
Rep. Kathy Castor Addressed Researchers, Students During Visit to the Center of Urban Transportation Research at USF
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor visited the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at USF last week to speak to researchers and students about their work in solving America’s most pressing transportation issues and to take a short tour of the center.
July 15, 2019Civil Environmental
Ysela Llort is 2019 Florida Transportation Hall Of Fame Inductee
Ysela Llort, who during more than three decades of transportation leadership has guided modern transit solutions in complex metropolitan areas, will be inducted into the Florida Transportation Hall of Fame for 2019 and will be the first woman to receive the honor, Florida Transportation Commissioner Teresa Sarnoff announced today.
July 10, 2019Civil Environmental
CEE PhD Grads Receive ASEE Best Paper Award
USF environmental engineering Ph.D. graduates Pablo Cornejo — an assistant professor at California State University, Chico — and Kevin Orner — a postdoctoral research scientist at University of California, Berkeley — received the 2019 Best Paper Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Environmental Engineering Division.
June 20, 2019Civil Environmental
Wainella Isaacs Awarded Schlumberger Foundation Fellowship
Wainella Isaacs, a PhD student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida, has been awarded a highly competitive Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship for Women in STEM.
April 16, 2019Civil Environmental
Bob Hartnett Inducted into FL Transportation Hall of Fame
Celebrating the career of a transportation industry advocate and recognizing the achievements of USF students were on the agenda of the 16th annual Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) Transportation Achievement Awards, Nov. 1, at the University of South Florida Embassy Suites Hotel.
November 14, 2018Civil Environmental
Jim Mihelcic Receives 2018 Charles R. O’melia Distinguished Educator Award From AEESP
Professor James Mihelcic, PhD, BCEEM, the Samuel L. and Julia M. Flom Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering at the University of South Florida, recently received the 2018 Charles R. O'Melia Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). Established by AEESP in 2012, this award is given annually to recognize the significant contributions of Professor Charles R. O'Melia 1934-2010 to environmental engineering education. It is awarded to an environmental engineering or science professor who has a record of excellent teaching in the classroom and through graduate student advising; significant research achievements that have contributed to environmental engineering knowledge; and an outstanding record of influence through mentoring of former students and colleagues.
October 4, 2018Civil Environmental
Jim Mihelcic Receives 2018 Charles R. O'Melia Distinguished Educator Award from AEESP
Jim Mihelcic receives 2018 Charles R. O'Melia Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP).
October 4, 2018Civil Environmental
Bob Hartnett To Receive 2018 Transportation Award
Bob Hartnett, TEAMFL President and CEO, will receive the 2018 Florida Transportation Hall of Fame Award at the 16th Annual Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) Transportation Achievement Awards event on November 1, 2018, at the University of South Florida Embassy Suites Hotel on the Tampa Campus. Hartnett's selection was announced by Thornton Williams, CUTR Advisory Board Chair and Managing Partner of the Williams Law Group P.A., Tallahassee.
July 31, 2018Civil Environmental