{"id":32393,"date":"2023-01-23T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/newengineer\/?p=32393"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:42:15","slug":"forrest-masters-interim-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/featured\/forrest-masters-interim-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Masters, Interim Dean of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32413\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32413 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2023\/01\/26-003-Interim-Dean-Masters-2023_slider2.jpg\" alt=\"Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2023\/01\/26-003-Interim-Dean-Masters-2023_slider2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2023\/01\/26-003-Interim-Dean-Masters-2023_slider2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2023\/01\/26-003-Interim-Dean-Masters-2023_slider2-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2023\/01\/26-003-Interim-Dean-Masters-2023_slider2-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2023\/01\/26-003-Interim-Dean-Masters-2023_slider2-1536x768.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E., Interim Dean and Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure &amp; Environment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As interim dean, it is a great honor to lead the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering into a new and exciting chapter of its remarkable 110-plus-year history. I would like to begin by recognizing my predecessor, Dr. Cammy Abernathy, for the visionary leadership and tireless energy that left such an indelible mark on the College.<\/p>\n<p>During her tenure, we experienced the greatest growth and impact ever by every significant metric: Our emerging footprint now includes the opening of the state-of-the-art Malachowsky Hall for Data Science &amp; Information Technology later this year; our increasing, eminent faculty are the most diverse of any engineering college among the public AAUs; our ever-expanding portfolio of strategic collaborations with academia, industry, government and corporations is leveraging Gator Engineering expertise in every conceivable sector of society; and we boast a burgeoning talent pipeline that distinguishes our college and UF with groundbreaking discoveries and accomplishments in their professional fields.<\/p>\n<p>In all aspects, the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is well-positioned for an ambitious trajectory going forward as we leverage our world-class technological and intellectual capital to take on even greater challenges \u2014 ones that distinguish us as a preeminent leader in engineering education and research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message from Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E. Interim Dean and Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":32413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37721,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393\/revisions\/37721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}