Project Title: New Sustainable Cementitious Material for Infrastructure
Department: Civil and Coastal Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Kyle Riding, kyle.riding@essie.ufl.edu
Ph.D. Student Mentor(s): Hossein Mosavi, smosavi@ufl.edu
Terms Available: Fall, Spring
Student Level: Junior, Senior; 1 student per term
Prerequisites: Civil and Coastal Engineering Student
Credit: 0-3 credits via EGN 4912
Stipend: $15 per hour up to 20 hours a week
Application Requirements: Basic online application, resume, faculty interview; email Kyle Riding, kyle.riding@essie.ufl.edu for interview request
Application Deadline: October 1 for Fall term and November 1 for Spring term
Website: n/a
Project Description: Portland cement manufacturing is responsible for around 5% of global CO2 emissions. Calcined clay offers the potential to replace part of portland cement, making concrete more durable and environmentally friendly. This project will be a pilot study into the potential for a local source of calcined clay to be used in infrastructure.
Project Title: Natural Hazard Wind Engineering Research for Undergraduates
Department: Civil and Coastal Engineering
Faculty Mentor: David Prevatt, dprev@ce.ufl.edu
Ph.D. Student Mentor(s): David Roueche, david.roueche@ufl.edu
Terms Available: Fall, Spring, Summer
Student Level: Junior, Senior; 3-5 students per term
Prerequisites: CES3102, Common Sense, Architecture and building construction interests
Credit: 0-3 credits via EGN 4912, for most students 0-1 credits per semester
Stipend: Volunteer with no stipend first term, potential OPS later, potential University Scholars
Application Requirements: Resume, statement of research interest, faculty interview; email one pdf file with all application requirements to David Prevatt, dprev@ce.ufl.edu, to set up an interview
Application Deadline: As projects are available to match skills of applicants
Website: n/a
Project Description: Conduct experimental and analytical research to understand how tornado forces create structural damage in low-rise buildings, particularly houses that annually suffer over $2 billion in economic loss. The research involves field deployments following tornadoes to document and analyze the damage, publication of summary reports on the web, as well as modeling of the probabilistic losses using Matlab and other software to develop Monte Carlo simulations of extreme-wind structural system interactions.
Department: Civil and Coastal Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Eric Du, eric.du@essie.ufl.edu
Ph.D. Student Mentor(s): Qi Zhu, qizhu@ufl.edu
Terms Available: Fall
Student Level: Sophomore, Junior, or Senior; 2 students per term
Prerequisites: Unity game engine development (basic); C# (intermediate level); Robotics knowledge (basic)
Credit: 0-3 credits via EGN 4912
Stipend: None
Application Requirements: Resume, UF Unofficial transcripts, faculty interview; email statement of interest, resume, and unofficial transcripts to Eric Du, eric.du@essie.ufl.edu
Application Deadline: Open
Website: faculty.eng.ufl.edu/ericdu/
Project Description: This research aims to understand the use of Virtual Reality as an intuitive user interface to enable a more natural collaboration between human workers and collaborative robots in complex construction tasks, such as pipe works.
Project Title: Performance-Based Design and Optimization of Building Systems
Department: Civil and Coastal Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Arthriya Subgranon, arthriya@ufl.edu
Ph.D. Student Mentor(s): N/A
Terms Available: Fall, Spring, Summer
Student Level: Junior or Senior; 1-2 students per term
Prerequisites: CES3102 and interests in building design. Knowledge of programming (Matlab) and statistics is a plus. Students considering graduate school are strongly encouraged to apply!
Credit: 0-3 credits via EGN 4912, for most students 0-1 credits per semester
Stipend: Volunteer with no stipend first term, potential OPS later, potential University Scholars
Application Requirements: Resume, UF Unofficial transcripts, faculty interview; email statement of interest, resume, and unofficial transcripts to Arthriya Subgranon, arthriya@ufl.edu, to set up an interview
Application Deadline: Rolling until filled
Website: N/A
Project Description: The substantial economic losses and social impacts seen in the aftermath of hurricanes have triggered interest in enhancing building design for mitigating wind-induced risk. In this project, student(s) will use computational models to assess the building performance through performance-based wind engineering frameworks. To achieve the high-performance goals at affordable costs, the student(s) will explore ways to integrate optimization methods with the performance-based design concept to identify optimal design solutions for wind-excited systems.
Project Title: AI, data science, and sustainable transportation systems
Departments: Civil and Coastal Engineering
Faculty Mentors: Xiang Yan, xiangyan@ufl.edu
Ph.D. Student Mentor(s): N/A
Terms Available: Fall, Spring, Summer
Student Level: Junior, Senior; 2 students per term
Prerequisites: Only students who have finished their Sophomore year will be considered.
Credit: N/A
Stipend: $15-$18 per hour
Application Requirements: Resume, Statement of research interest, Faculty interview. To express your interest, please email your CV and a short writing sample to Dr. Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan (xiangyan@ufl.edu).
Application Deadline: N/A
Website(s): https://jacobyan0.github.io/openpositions/
Project Description: The Just&Green Transportation Lab, led by Jacob Yan, focuses on using data science and artificial intelligence (machine learning) to make transportation more equitable and sustainable. The Just&Green Transportation Lab is looking for enthusiastic undergraduate and master’s students who are interested in AI, data science, public transportation, emerging transportation technologies (e.g., electric vehicles), and transport equity into the group.