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Meet Our New Engineers

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering has welcomed 72 faculty members from 2015 through 2018.  And we are just getting started. 

As one of the largest and most dynamic engineering programs in the nation, with curriculum offered across nine departments, 15 degree programs, and more than 20 centers and institutes, we produce leaders and problem-solvers who take a multidisciplinary approach to innovative and human-centered solutions. Students, faculty and alumni are hailed as New Engineers who aim to transform the way we live, work and play.

Meet our New Engineers. 

Departments

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

  • Jorge Barrera Alviar, Assistant Professor
  • Eban Z. Bean, Assistant Professor
  • Gerrit Hoogenboom, Professor
  • Cheryl A. Palm, Research Professor
  • Aditya Singh, Assistant Professor 
  • Jonathan Adam Watson, Assistant Professor

J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering

  • Maigan A. Brusko, Research Assistant Scientist
  • Ruogu Fang, Assistant Professor
  • Daniel P. Ferris, Professor
  • Walter L. Murfee, Associate Professor
  • Jennifer A. Nichols, Assistant Professor
  • Andrew D. Nordin, Research Assistant Scientist
  • Edward A. Phelps, Assistant Professor
  • Sarah C. Rowlinson, Lecturer 

Computer and Information Science and Engineering

  • Tania Banerjee, Research Assistant Professor
  • Christina A. Boucher, Assistant Professor
  • Petter Dobbins, Lecturer
  • Jaime Ruiz, Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Joaquin J. Casanova, Research Assistant Professor
  • Alina Z. Glenn, Associate Professor
  • Joel Harley, Assistant Professor
  • Yier Jin, Associate Professor
  • Michael F. Mitchell, Research Assistant Professor
  • Sandip Ray, Professor
  • Narayan Subramanian, Research Assistant Professor

Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment

  • Andrew H. Altieri, Assistant Professor
  • Alberto Canestrelli, Assistant Professor
  • Lili Du, Associate Professor
  • Katrina A. Indarawis, Research Assistant Professor
  • Clark Letter, Research Assistant Professor
  • Kyle A. Riding, Associate Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

  • Michelle M. Alvarado, Assistant Professor
  • McKenzie E. Landrum, Lecturer
  • Hongcheng Liu, Assistant Professor
  • Maciej W. Rysz, Research Assistant Professor
  • Ehsan Salimi, Lecturer
  • Xiang Zhong, Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering 

  • Assel Aitkaliyeva, Assistant Professor
  • Kyle C. Hartig, Assistant Professor
  • Monica Kapoor, Research Scientist
  • Michael Tonks, Associate Professor
  • Xianfei Wen, Research Assistant Scientist
  • Agata K. Zupanska, Research Assistant Scientist

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Katerina E. Aifantis, Associate Professor
  • Teresa Benitez, Lecturer
  • Alexander Bennett, Lecturer
  • Jonathan T. Brooks, Lecturer
  • Cristian E. Cardenas-Lailhacar, Research Associate Scientist
  • Nitin Chandola, Assistant Engineer
  • Jason Hackl, Research Scientist
  • Matthew Hale, Assistant Professor
  • Ryan W. Houim, Assistant Professor
  • Grant Huang, Research Assistant Scientist
  • Amor Menezes, Assistant Professor
  • Steven A. Miller, Assistant Professor
  • Kyle D. Schulze, Lecturer
  • Xin Tang, Assistant Professor
  • Peter J. Wass, Research Scientist
  • Nadim Zgheib, Lecturer

Institutes

Engineering Innovation Institute

  • William J. McElroy, Engineer
  • Claudio Spiguel, Professor of Practice
  • Melda Uzbil, Assistant Director 

Florida Applied Research in Engineering

  • Richard L. Vigeant, Director

Institute for Excellence in Engineering Education

  • Ashish Aggarwal, Lecturer
  • Jeremiah J. Blanchard, Assistant Engineer
  • David J. Cheney, Lecturer
  • Joshua E. Fox, Lecturer
  • John A. Mendoza Garcia, Lecturer
  • Cheryl Resch, Lecturer
  • Sindia Rivera Jimenez, Lecturer
  • Lillianny J. Virguez Barroso, Lecturer

UF Transportation Institute

  • Nithin K. Agarwal, Assistant Engineer