UCF MAE Department<\/a> has reported — UCF has broken its own record for the most number of National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipients this year. The university leads the state and ranks third in the nation for boasting 11 award winners, three of whom are mechanical and aerospace engineering faculty members. The recipients are:<\/p>\nAssistant Professor Andrew Dickerson
\nAssistant Professor Ranajay Ghosh
\nAssistant Professor Helen Huang
\n\u201cI\u2019m so proud of our faculty members. These awards are only the tip of the iceberg and they demonstrate the stellar competency of our faculty as a whole,\u201d said Yoav Peles, the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. \u201cThis is just the beginning and I\u2019m sure that there are many more to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The funding will support Dickerson\u2019s research on the stability of liquids as they flow through gas, which has important implications for drug delivery, fabrication and thermal regulation. For Ghosh, the award will allow him to explore tunable exoskeleton structures, which could serve as platform for researchers to develop advanced soft- and human-integrated collaborative robots.<\/p>\n
The funds will also enable Huang to use electroencephalography to study the brain and predict measures used to study the human body as it walks. She also plans to develop an outreach program, neuromechanics^girls, which will support and encourage girls to pursue careers in STEM.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very excited to have received an NSF CAREER award from the engineering in biomedical systems program because it shows the breadth of my research,\u201d Huang said. \u201cI typically pursue funding from the National Institutes of Health and a couple of years ago, received an NIH R01 from the National Institute on Aging. Few assistant professors have a NIH R01 and NSF CAREER, and I am the first person ever at UCF to have earned both.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four additional recipients came from the College of Engineering and Computer Science with another three from the College of Sciences. This equates to more than $4.5 million in funding for faculty research.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe awards recognize what we\u2019ve long known. We have talented faculty with a pioneering spirit and a drive to make an impact on the world,\u201d says Elizabeth Klonoff, vice president for research and dean of the College of Graduate Studies. \u201cThis year\u2019s success also demonstrates the power of investing in people.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CAREER awards are among the most prestigious in the nation. The awards recognize early career professionals with promising research. The awards are part of the NSF\u2019s Early Career Development Program and are given to recipients who have the potential to serve as academic role models and lead their respective fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COSMOS Director Ranajay Ghosh wins 2019 NSF CAREER Award from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures program in the Division of Engineering. UCF TODAY reported — UCF leads the state and ranks third in the nation for the number of National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipients this year. UCF has 11 confirmed awards as of…","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lab-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}