Faculty Areas of Specialization (pdf)

• Civil, Environmental & Geomatics Engineering
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Ocean Engineering

• Center for Information Networks and Engineering
  Director - Karl K. Stevens, Ph.D., P.E.
  Mission
  The mission of the Center for Information Networks and Engineering (CINE) is to advance the competitiveness of Florida's information and communications technologies (ICT) industries. The Center participates in and organizes research programs of scale in strategic technologies that are emerging or anticipated in ICT. Equally important, the Center provides ICT industries with a flow of highly skilled R&D personnel and enriches academic programs offered by the College of Engineering and Computer Science through specialized multidisciplinary tracks of study and the facilitation of industry internships for students.

• Center for Intermodal Transportation Safety and Security
  Director - Panagiotis "Pete" D. Scarlatos, Ph.D.
  Mission
  The Center for Intermodal Transportation Safety and Security is a state university system-wide project led by FAU and designed to address the potential threat of terrorism affecting the safety and general economic welfare of Florida and its transportation-based infrastructure. The center's primary mission is to support initiatives by the state to protect and encourage the economic vitality of Florida by preventing both terrorism and transportation gridlock. This project includes Florida's 1,197-mile coastline and existing maritime facilities, airspace and airports, telecommunications, surface transportation and subsurface systems such as pipelines. The center brings together four universities- FAU, Florida International University, the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida-in the areas of transportation and urban planning, architecture, engineering, computer and information science and technology, criminology and public administration.

• Center for Systems Integration
  Director - Ravi Shankar, Ph.D.
  Mission
  The Center for System Integration provides a state-of-the-art center for multidisciplinary research, teaching and training with a component of service and nucleating beneficial economical activities. The Center's focus is on emerging technologies for real-time embedded system modeling, co-design, co-verification and integration. The Center is envisioned to provide a collaborative environment that induces individual performance and rewards excellence for both university and industry participants, and to contribute to a research and development infrastructure in South Florida.

• Center for Acoustics and Vibrations
  Director - Stewart Glegg, Ph.D., P.E.
  Mission
  The Center for Acoustics and Vibration is dedicated to the understanding of the generation, propagation, and reception of sound and vibration. Of particular interest are development of sonar systems, underwater acoustic communications, ocean acoustic propagation and ambient noise, flow noise, the noise from propellers and turbo machinery, sound radiation from and vibration of flexible elastic structures.
  • CHIRP Sonar Laboratory
  • Laboratory for Acoustic Communication and Navigation Systems

• Center for Coastline Security Technology
  Director- Stewart Glegg, Ph.D.
  Mission
  The Center will focus on research, simulation and evaluation of coastal defense and marine domain awareness equipment, sensors and components. It will leverage off the existing efforts and expertise in coastal systems and sensor research at the Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering (IOSE), the Imaging Technology Center, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the University Consortium for Intermodal Transportation Safety and Security at FAU. Through the Center, federal agencies, academia and industry would be able to come together to solve issues and problems related to coastal security, protection and safety.

• Center for Hydrodynamics and Physical Oceanography
  Director - Palaniswamy Ananthakrishnan, Ph.D.
  Mission
  Center for Hydrodynamics and Physical Oceanography promotes excellence in research and graduate education in the areas of hydrodynamics and physical oceanography. The Center's focus will be on fluid mechanics pertaining to the ocean, air-sea interaction and to surface and sub-surface vehicles and structures. Theoretical, computational and experimental research activities will include: 1) investigations of hydrodynamic design, drag, propulsion and maneuvering of vehicles and associated flow control and hydroacoustics, and 2) studies of basic physical processes involving air-sea interaction, wave motion, currents, turbulence, stratified flows, mixing and sediment transport.

• Center for Infrastructure and Constructed Facilities
  Director - Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D.
  Mission
  The Center for Infrastructure and Constructed Facilities (CICF) focuses on civil infrastructure systems and construction type applications. Interdisciplinary areas of research involving Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering include infrastructure safety and security, intermodal transportation network security, hurricane resistant infrastructure, fiber reinforced polymer composites for bridges, artificial intelligence applications, smart materials and structures.

• Center for Marine Materials
  Director - Richard Granata, Ph.D.
  Mission
  The Center for Marine Materials is dedicated to 1) understanding the mechanisms whereby materials deteriorate in marine environments, 2) developing means for reducing and preventing such deterioration, and 3) promoting transfer of developed technologies for integrity retention to the private sector. Although corrosion of materials in marine environments has been estimated to cost approximately one percent of the GNP per annum, the Center is the only stand-alone academic unit in the country that focuses exclusively upon marine materials.

• Center for Marine Structures and Geotechnique
  Director - Dronnadula V. Reddy, Ph.D.
  Mission
  The Center enhances the research (basic and applied) activities and industry relations in the Structures, Geotechnical, Geoenvironmental, and Materials areas. It also strengthens the teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and the interaction with other Centers in the College of Engineering, i.e. i) Marine Materials, ii) Hydrodynamics and Physical Oceanography, iii) Acoustics and Vibrations, iv) Applied Stochastics Research and v) Infrastructure and Constructed Facilities.

• Center for Advancement of Distance Educations Technologies
  Director - Bassem Alhalabi, Ph.D.
  Mission
  To provide an innovative and open research and development (R&D) creative pedagogical environment to facilitate the growth of emerging innovative distance education technologies. CADET focuses its research efforts on the innovation and the enhancement of the current FAU instructional systems and the use of these technologies as cognitive tools to aid the teaching and the learning process in the classroom-- traditional and virtual.

• Center for Ocean Energy Technology
  Executive Director - Susan Skemp
  Mission
  As the world's economy grows and strives to meet growing energy demands, the Center is committed to creating, developing and sustaining a new industry that has the potential to provide a clean, reliable and renewable source of energy that can be used to generate electricity, unlimited hydrogen and potable water, as well as providing alternative methods for residential cooling. Harnessing ocean energy would have a significant economic impact for Florida, creating a new industry and over 26,500 new Florida-based jobs-transforming Florida from an energy importer to a leader in energy exports. Not only will Florida achieve energy independence, but a new economic sector will be established to generate billions of dollars in revenue.

• SeaTech Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering
  Director - Manhar R. Dhanak, Ph.D.
  Mission
  The mission of IOSE is to provide an environment for advanced engineering research and technology development aimed at solving problems in the ocean. IOSE builds on and complements the academic programs of the Department of Ocean Engineering and forms the means for technology advancement, collaboration with academia, industry, and government, and transition of research products to applications.

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