EE Distinguished Professor Dr. Richard Gitlin was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Dr. Gitlin was also named to the James Madison High School (Brooklyn, NY) Wall of Distinction that includes other notables such as Carol King, Bernie Sanders, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Dr. Selcuk Kose received the USF Outstanding Researcher Award. Dr. Kose also received his third Cisco Research Award and was invited to present his research in the Cisco Research Center System and Platform Dr. Autar Kaw (ME) was awarded 2017-2018 ASEE Ralph Coats Roe Award in March 2018.
Dr. David Murphy (ME) was awarded the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowship in August 2017.
Faculty Research Awards Learning to walk again after a stroke can be difficult. Dr. Kyle Reed’s (ME) Gait Enhancing Mobile Shoe—created on a 3D printer—is known as the GEM Shoe. It recently completed clinical trials. The work was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NIH NICHD award #R21HD066200), Moterum LLC, and the Florida High Tech Corridor. Dr. Daniel Yeh (CEE) and his research team recently shipped and installed a NEW Generator to South Africa. NEW Generator recycles water for toilet flushing which cuts down on demand and also provides nutrients for fertilizing local gardens. This research is funded through a $1.4M Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant.
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Dr. David Murphy (ME) received a 2017 Early Career Research Fellowship from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Maya Trotz (CEE) is the PI on a $2.5M NSF grant over five years for “Collaborative Research: NRT-INFEWS: Systems Training for Research on Geography-based Coastal Food Energy Water Systems (STRONG-CFEWS).” Dr. Tom Weller and Dr. Jing Wang (EE) were recently awarded a $360,000 NSF GOALI with industry partner MTron of Orlando. The aim of the project is to investigate packaging technologies for high frequency microelectronic circuits that will provide critical performance enhancements for next generation wireless systems. Dr. John Licato (CSE) was awarded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator’s Program award, a grant of $450K over three years. Dr. Andres Tejada-Martinez (CEE) has been awarded a $1M grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) for a project titled “Turbulent Vertical Mixing and the Formation of Oil Particle Aggregates (OPAs): LES, Measurements and Modeling”. The goal of the project is to investigate numerically and through laboratory and field measurements how turbulence in inner shelves induced by winds, waves, tides and surface heat fluxes promotes mixing of oil and sediments leading to the generation of OPAs. Dr. Anda Iamnitchi (PI) and Dr. Larry Hall (both with CSE) received a $1.7M DARPA grant to examine how fast and in what ways different kinds of information travel through online social media. They are collaborating with College of Arts and Science sociology professor, Dr.John Skvoretz. Dr. Alfredo Weitzenfeld (CSE) received a $1M collaborative NSF grant with the University of Arizona. RI: Medium: Collaborative Reasearch: Experimental and Robotics Investigations of Multi-Scale Spatial Memory Consolidation in Complex Environments.