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Faculty Mentors

Jeff Cunningham, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. Contaminant fate and transport in the environment; physical, chemical and biological processes for water treatment; water resources and water re-use; remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.Personal Website Link

James R. Mihelcic Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University), Professor and a State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar. Sustainable development, Green engineering, Global water and sanitation, Engineering education reform.

Mahmood Nachabe, Ph.D., P.E. (Colorado State University), Associate Professor. Subsurface hydrology; fate and transport of chemicals in the vadose zone; stochastic hydrology; uncertainty in distributed models.

Abdul Pinjari. (University of Texas at Austin), Assistant Professor. Transportation Planning and Travel Demand Modeling, Econometric Modeling of Travel Behavior, Integrated Land-use Travel Demand Modeling, Sustainable Transportation, Freight Transportation, Travel Data Collection,Transportation Safety.

Mark Ross, Ph.D., P.E.(University of Florida), Professor. Water resources; hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality modeling; surface and groundwater interaction, GIS applications in hydrology; lake and estuary water quality management; estuary sediment dynamics.

Peter Stroot, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati), Assistant Professor. Use of traditional engineering design, microbiology, and molecular biology to develop low-cost bioreactors. Development of molecular biology based methods for measuring the specific growth rate of distinct microbial populations in bioreactors.Personal Website Link

Amy Stuart, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. Transport and transformation of pollutants in the atmospheric environment; environmental computational modeling; human exposures to air pollutants. Personal Website Link

Andres Tejada-Martinez, Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Assistant Professor. Finite element methods for fluids, Subgrid-scale parameterizations for large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows, Novel LES methodologies, Numerical simulations of turbulence in the ocean and integration with field observations.Personal Website Link

Maya Trotz, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. Application of chemical principles to the study and manipulation of pollutant behavior (e.g. arsenic) in natural aquatic systems and in engineered processes.Personal Website Link

Daniel Yeh, Ph.D., P.E. (Georgia Institute of Technology), Assistant Professor. Membrane and biological processes for water purification and wastewater reclamation, industrial wastes minimization, and the remediation of contaminated soils and sediments; sustainable energy sources and processes; ecological engineering.Personal Website Link

Yu Zhang Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), Assistant Professor. Air Transportation, Transportation Network Modeling and Operations, Transportation Economics and Planning, Freight Transportation and Transportation Sustainability