Faculty Achievements
2020 | 2018-19 | 2017 | 2016 |
Dr. Myeongsub (Mike) Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Myeongsub (Mike) Kim's research featured in Analytical Chemistry for article titled “Microbubbles Loaded with Nickel Nanoparticles: A Perspective for Carbon Sequestration.”
Dr. Dan Meeroff
Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering
Dr. Meeroff received a grant from the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County for $32,500, titled "Investigation of Leachate Management Solutions at the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County."
Dr. Francisco Presuel-Moreno
Associate Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Presuel-Moreno received a grant from Sandia National Laboratories for $22,335, titled "Metal-Carbon Fiber Composite Interconnects in Seawater."
Dr. Yufei Tang
Assistant Professor and I-SENSE Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Dr. Tang received a grant from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity (USF) for $20,000, titled “Proactive Defense Against Cyber-Physical Smart Grid Attacks.”
Dr. Elias Bou-Harb
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Dr. Elias Bou-Harb’s team won the Best Paper Award at the 28th edition of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications conference for their paper titled, “A First Empirical Look on Internet-scale Exploitations of IoT Devices.”
Dr. Shihong Huang
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Dr. Abhijit Pandya
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Inventors, Prof. Shihong Huang, Prof. Abhijit Pandya, and Prof. Sam Hsu (emeritus), from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and; Prof. Marilyn Parker (emeritus), from the College of Nursing, of the U.S. patent no. 8,799,017, titled "Apparatus and Method for Managing Interaction-Based Services," was sold pursuant to an Intellectual Property Transfer Agreement with Koninklijke Philips N.V. (a.k.a. Philips). The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent to FAU on Aug. 5, 2014. The invention is a new software system that manages patient health information gained from nurses' perspectives - such as conversations, observations, and diagnoses - to better improve healthcare to patients.
Dr. Ali Zilouchian
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Received the President’s Leadership Award for 2016-2017. The award is given to individual employees of Florida Atlantic University who have rendered services of an extraordinary nature to the University and/or the greater community.
Dr. Fred Bloetscher
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering
Awarded Weppner Center for LEAD and Service-Learning Change Agent of the Year Faculty Award 2016-2017.
Dr. Isaac E. Elishakoff
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Authored the book, "Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures, Strength of Materials, Random Vibrations, and Random Buckling." The book is a third, corrected and expanded edition that appears in conjunction with its companion volume Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures: Complete Worked-Through Solutions.
Dr. Amir Abtahi
Associate Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Roger Messenger
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Amir Abtahi, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, and Roger Messenger, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in the FAU Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science co-authored the undergraduate/graduate level textbook, "Photovoltaic Systems Engineering, Fourth Edition."
Dr. Kevin Kang
Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Applicant/Mentee Winner of the 2017 Faculty Research Mentoring Program Awards by the FAU Division of Research.
Dr. Khaled Sobhan
Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering
Co-authored the Korean version of the textbook, "Principles of Geotechnical Engineering" with Braja M. Das, Ph.D., Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, Sacremento. An introductory text in soil mechanics that offers an overview of soil properties and mechanics together with coverage of field practices and basic engineering procedures.
Mentor Winner of the 2017 Faculty Research Mentoring Program Awards by the FAU Division of Research.
Dr. Hongbo Su
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering
Applicant/Mentee Winner of the 2017 Faculty Research Mentoring Program Awards by the FAU Division of Research.
Dr. Ramesh Teegavarapu
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering
Co-authored the book "Sustainable Water Resources Planning and Management Under Climate Change," with Elpida Kolokytha, Ph.D., associate professor, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece and Satoru Oishi, Ph.D., professor, at the Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Dr. Stewart Glegg
Professor and Director of the Center for Acoustics and Vibration, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Co-authored the book "Aeroacoustics of Low Mach Number Flows," with William Devenport, Director of the Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel and Director of the Center for Renewable Energy and Aerodynamic Testing, at Virginia Tech.
Dr. Borko Furht
Professor and Director of NSF Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Guest speaker at the 14th Vienna Congress com•sult, that will be held in Vienna, Austria January 17, 2017. The event will focus on the general topic "Call for Future". The congress is one of the most renowned international economic-political congresses of the region.