About Us

Points of Pride

Faculty

  • 2024 HIPs Faculty Award Ipek Yucelen (2024)
  • Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award from The Center for Leadership and
    Civic Engagement Ipek Yucelen (2024)
  • 2024 Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence
    Award - Nancy Diaz-Elsayed (2024)
  • Elevated to Senior Member status, National Academy of Inventors Rasim Guldiken (2024)
  • Elevated to Senior Member status, National Academy of Inventors Tansel Yucelen (2024) 
  • Elevated to Senior Member status, National Academy of Inventors Redwan Alqasemi (2024)
  • Editors Choice Award for 2023 Tests and Analysis on the Dynamic Loosening of Jack
    Bolt Nuts Compared with Heavy Hex Nuts in Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention,   Daniel Hess (2023)
  • 2022-2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award Ipek Yucelen (2023)
  • Best Paper Award at the Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies
    (CoDIT) 2023 Tansel Yucelen (2023)
  • 堁階傭部app COE Outstanding Teaching Award Miguel Goni Rodrigo (2023)
  • Semi-finalist for the 2024 Robert Foster Cherry Award Autar Kaw (2023)
  • Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Control, Decision and
    Information Technologies Tansel Yucelen (2023)
  • Keynote speaker for the Smart Manufacturing Summit in Northern Ireland Redwan
    Alqasemi (2023)
  • Elevated to Senior Member status, National Academy of Inventors Ashok Kumar (2023)
  • Professor Emeritus Delcie Durham (ME) was honored as the namesake for 2023 SME
    Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Awards. (2023)
  • Recipient of the Thomas C. Evans Engineering Education Paper Award Autar Kaw (2023)
  • 2022 SME Outstanding Young Engineer Manufacturing Award Nancy Diaz Elsayed (2022)
  • Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel, Winter 2022/2023 Redwan Alqasemi (2022)
  • 2022 堁階傭部app Status of Latinos (SOL) Award Nancy Diaz Elsayed (2022)
  • Named Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Tansel Yucelen (2022)
  • 2022 NSF CAREER Award Arman Sargolzaei (2022)
  • 2022 NSF CAREER Award Ying Sarah Zhong (2022)
  • 堁階傭部app Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award Rasim Guldiken (2022)
  • 堁階傭部app Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award Cai Mike Wang (2022)
  • 堁階傭部app Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award Stephanie Carey (2022)
  • 2022 Excellence in Innovation Award Ying Sarah Zhong (2022)
  • 2022 堁階傭部app STEER Award Daniel Hess (2022)
  • Elevated to Senior Member Status, National Academy of Inventors Rajiv Dubey (2022)
  • Excellence in Research, Pre-Tenure Award David Murphy (2022)
  • Elected ASME Fellow Rasim Guldiken (2022)
  • 2022 堁階傭部app Academic Excellence Award Rasim Guldiken (2022)
  • 堁階傭部app Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award Autar Kaw (2021)
  • 堁階傭部app Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award Ajit Mujumdar (2021)
  • 堁階傭部app Outstanding Faculty Award Michael Cai Wang (2021)
  • 堁階傭部app STEER Scholar Rasim Guldiken (2021)
  • ACS Doctoral New Investigator Award (Early career) Michael Cai Wang (2021)
  • Elected president of the 堁階傭部app Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA) - Frank Pyrtle, III (2021)
  • 堁階傭部app COE Outstanding Junior Research Achievement Award Michael Cai Wang (2021)
  • TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) Functional Materials Division (FMD)
    Young Leaders Professional Development Award - Michael Cai Wang (2021)
  • Fulbright Scholar Kyle Reed (2019 - 2020)
  • DARPA SBIR Phase II Grant through OptoXense Tansel Yucelen (2019 - 2021)
  • AFRL Add Work Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • 2019 NSF CAREER award David Murphy (2019)
  • Lockheed Martin Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • NSF Graduate Student Travel Support Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • AFRL Grant through OptoXense Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • 堁階傭部app World Global Achievement Faculty Certificate Alex Volinsky (2018)
  • Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award; 堁階傭部app Research and Innovation Tansel Yucelen  (2018)
  • Certificate of Recognition for being 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award Nominee; 堁階傭部app Research and Innovation Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award - Stephanie Carey (2018)
  • 2018 Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award - Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • 2018 Alliance for Citizens with Disabilities Hillsborough County Award - Redwan Alqasemi (2018)
  • NSF I-Corps Award - Rasim Guldiken (2018)
  • 2017-18 Ralph Coats Roe Award - Autar Kaw (2018)
  • Fullbright Specialist in Malaysia Summer 2018 - Autar Kaw (2018)
  • 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowship - David Murphy (2017)
  • NSF Award - Jonathan Gaines (2017)
  • NSF Award - Stephanie Carey (2017)
  • NSF Award - Nathan Crane (2017)
  • NSF Award - Wenjun Cai (2017)
  • 2017 TMS Young Leaders Professional Award - Wenjun Cai (2017)
  • NSF Award - Jonathan Gaines (2017)
  • NSF Award - Stephanie Carey (2017)
  • NSF Award - Autar Kaw (2016)
  • NSF Award - Tansel Yucelen (2016)
  • 2016 堁階傭部app Global Achievement Faculty Award - Alex Volinsky (2016)
  • Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award - Tansel Yucelen (2016)
  • Ashok Kumar Elevated to Prestigious SME College of Fellows (2016)
  • STEER Institute Scholars Teaching Award - Autar Kaw (2016)
  • NSF Award - Kyle Reed (2016)
  • NSF Award - Nathan Crane (2016)
  • NSF CAREER award - Wenjun Cai (2015)
  • 堁階傭部app Excellence in Innovative Award for Exceptional Achievement in Innovation and Research - Kyle Reed (2015)
  • Best Paper Award by the ASME Design Engineering Division's Mechanisms and Robotics Committee - Craig Lusk (2015)
  • Ashok Kumar elected AIMBE Fellow
  • NSF Award - Alex Volinsky (2014)
  • Fulbright Scholar - Nathan Crane (2014)
  • Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from SAE International - Rasim Guldiken (2014)
  • 堁階傭部app Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award - Ajit Mujumdar (2014)
  • NSF Innovation Corps Grant - Kyle Reed (2014)
  • Kosove Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Service Award - Autar Kaw (2013)
  • 堁階傭部app Outstanding Faculty Recognition - Ashok Kumar (2013)
  • 堁階傭部app Outstanding Faculty Recognition - Craig Lusk (2013)
  • 堁階傭部app Outstanding Faculty Recognition - Nathan Gallant (2013)
  • U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement & Support of Education awarded to Autar Kaw (2012)
  • ASME Engineer of the Year Award - Rasim Guldiken (2012)
  • 堁階傭部app Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award - Rasim Guldiken (2012)

Students

  • 堁階傭部app Signature Research Doctoral Fellowship in 2024 Adila Hoque (2024)
  • Awardee of GEM Fellowship Marcelo Farfan (2024)
  •  Barry M. Goldwater Scholar Award Daniela Zamora Alviarez (2024)
  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholar Award - Keegan Suero (2024)
  • Finalist for IEEE-HKN Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SoutheastCon 2024 Hamed
    Faghihian (2024)
  • Travel Award from American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) to present at Conference in Washington DC - Sandra Faragalla (2023)
  •  Best Workshop Paper Award at "the 6th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing 2023 Parisa Ansari Bonab (2023)
  • Selected to present her flexible batteries, called FlexBATS, at Defense Tech Connect 2023 Eesha Bhattacharjee (2023)
  • COE Representative for NSF 2023 S-STEM Scholars Meeting Daniela Zamora Alviarez (2023)
  • Received best paper award at the Conference on Control, Decision, and Information Technologies (CoDIT) 2023 - Deniz Kurtoglu (2023)
  • 2nd Place at Innovative Additive Manufacturing 3D Competition, 2023 - Davaughn McAnuff, Saifullah Farrag, Tyler Leniek, Clayton Baker, and Michael Edgemon (2023)
  • Received the best poster award at FAV summit 2023 Hamed Faghihian and Parisa Ansari Bonab (2023)
  • Recipient of the 2023 Never Satisfied Scholarship from the biofuel company POET - Daniela Zamora Alviarez (2023)
  • Selected as McKnight Affiliate - Omololu Makinde (2023)
  • Awardee of a one-year, $20,000 doctoral fellowship from the National GEM Consortium - Valerie Zapata (2023)
  • Awardee of the 2022-2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Alexandria
    詁娶硃餃聆-紼勳紳矇 (2023)
  • Tampa Bay Inno 25 under 25 Honoree Fayek Zaman (2022)
  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholar Award - Alexandria 詁娶硃餃聆-紼勳紳矇 (2022)
  • Graduate Research Symposium Winner Niraliben Patel (2022)
  • Best Poster Presentation at NanoFlorida 2022 Md Rubayat-E Tanjil (2022)
  • NASA Space Technology Graduate Researcher Ossie Douglas (2022)
  • Outstanding Senior Award - Thomas Blake (2022)
  • Koerner Family Foundation (KFF) Supplemental Student Stipend Award John Cotter (2021)

  •  Sigma Xi Top Undergraduate Research Presentation in Engineering - Alexandria Brady Min矇 (2021)

  • Outstanding Senior Award - Leah Biamonte (2021)

  • Finalist in the 2018 AIAA GNC Conference Graduate Student Paper Competition - Ehsan Arabi (2017)
  • 2017 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship - Kaitlin Lostroscio (2017)
  • 2017 American Solar Energy Society John and Barbara Yellott Award - Francesca Moloney (2017)
  • First Place Poster Presentation at IMECE 2016 - Michelle Morency (2016)
  • 2016 堁階傭部app Engineering Research Day Award - Millicent Schlafly (2016)
  • 2016 堁階傭部app Engineering Research Day Award - Justin Nussbaum (2016)
  • 2016 Graduate Student Research Symposium Award - Mustafa Mashali (2016)
  • Honorable Mention for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Daniel Capecci (2016)
  • 2015 Present-a-Bull Award - Christina-Anne Lahiff (2016)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Francesca Moloney (2016)
  • Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) - Francesca Moloney (2016)
  • Best Paper Award by ASME Design Engineering Division's Mechanisms and Robotics Committee - Ahmad Alqasimi (2015)
  • NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship - Joel Cooper (2015)
  • NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) - Joel Cooper (2015)
  • ASME Student Engineer of the Year Awarded to Katie Hart (2014-15)
  • SEI Scholarship awarded to Jamie Trahan (2014)
  • NSF Fellowship awarded to Laura Byrnes-Blanco (2014)
  • ASME Student Engineer of the Year Awarded to Marcos A. Robles (2013)
  • ASME Graduate Teaching Fellowship awarded to Jamie Trahan (2013)
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) awarded to Laura Byrnes-Blanco (2013)
  • Our students come from over 35 countries from around the world