Research

Think about what makes a person have such a strong foundation in life: family, friends, positive mindset, and more. The foundation of a person’s life leads to who that person becomes just like how the foundation of a structure will affect how that structure exists. Without this proper foundation, the risk of experiencing issues such…

Over 90% of drinking water in Florida comes from aquifers, emphasizing a need for understanding of groundwater hydrology. This area of engineering focuses on how groundwater moves and flows through aquifers and the quality of the water. Land use transitions to urbanization can influence hydrologic responses in streams, lakes, wetlands and groundwater, and can result…

ScholarGPS, a digital research analytics platform, has ranked several UCF engineering and computer science professors among the top researchers in their respective fields of study. These professors have been named Highly Ranked Scholars for their number of publications, the impact of their work and their scholarly contributions, which place them within the top 0.05% of…

Gold may be a coveted precious metal, but it could also be the key to cleaner drinking water. A team of UCF researchers is exploring the use of the metal to develop a novel method to rid drinking water of harmful algal blooms, or HABs, which occur when colonies of algae grow out of control…

The University of Central Florida is part of a new $22 million project to help understand the future of the Mississippi River delta and ways to combat land and ecological losses. The work is through a five-year grant awarded to the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in order…

Monitoring the structural health of the nation’s aging budlings and bridges is vital to keeping people safe and helping prevent tragedies such as the Surfside condominium collapse in 2021. That’s why UCF researchers have developed four new inventions that use artificial intelligence and virtual reality to improve the structural health monitoring of buildings, bridges, roads…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $25,000 grant to a team of UCF engineering students for the development of a biosensor that can detect harmful algal toxins in drinking water sources. The UCF Knights – environmental engineering majors Jennifer Hughes and Lance-Nicolas Rances and environmental engineering doctoral student Stephanie Stoll, along with associate professor and principal investigator Woo…

UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science assistant professors, Kenle Chen, Zhaomiao (Walter) Guo and Luigi Perotti, have been named 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award winners. The combined award total is an estimated $1.5 million. Recipients of this prestigious, early-faculty award exhibit the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, and…

A University of Central Florida engineering researcher is part of an international team of scientists who are developing oyster-based shoreline protection for U.S. coastlines. The work is through a $12.6 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-funded project that seeks to create self-repairing, biological and human-engineered reef-mimicking structures. The project is led by Rutgers University…

Seafloor cables carry over 95% of all digital data traffic worldwide, including financial trading information and social media communications. However, how the Earth’s changing climate could impact this vast undersea network has been relatively understudied until now. In a new global study published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, an international team of researchers led by the…