Faculty

Nine new columnists, including MAE Professor Seetha Raghavan, will begin sharing their opinions for the ninth year of the weekly UCF Forum. The faculty, staff and student writers for the next 12 months of columns are from engineering, business, athletics and varied other fields around the university. Some of the writers also are graduates from […]

Two new faculty have joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering this semester: Wendy Shen, who goes by Wen, and Denizhan Yavas. Shen joins the department as an assistant professor from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research includes the development of functional materials-based microelectronics for biomedical interfacing, agricultural sensing and structural health […]

Subith Vasu, UCF associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was recently awarded the prestigious Director’s Fellowship from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, one of just 12 researchers nationally to earn the 2020 research grant. Vasu, an expert in spectroscopy and optical diagnostics, was awarded $250,000 by the Department of Defense to continue […]

UCF engineering Assistant Professor Kawai Kwok studies the way insects fly and land on plants to inspire his understanding of deployable structures, which could one day help NASA more easily explore the solar system. Deployable structures are those that can change their shape on command. Think of an umbrella, which uses mechanisms to change shape […]

The 2020 UCF Reach for the Stars recipients have conducted research that may change the world we know. From supersonic engines that may someday let us travel from New York to Los Angeles in 30 minutes to protecting our waterways, exploring the new world of attoscience and making education accessible to those with disabilities, they […]