CERC Fall 2022 Newsletter

CLEAN ENERGY NEWS

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA / FALL 2022

Goswami leading new ISA journal

Editor’s note: The Interna tional Solar Alliance, a group of 110 countries dedicated to increasing the global use of solar energy, named CERC Director Dr. Yogi Goswami the founding Editor-in-Chief of its new Open Access Journal, Solar Compass. Here is his editorial introducing the journal and its mission.

By Yogi Goswami CERC Director and Solar Compass Editor-in-Chief

The International Solar Alliance and publisher Elsevier have launched the Solar Compass open access journal as an important tool to sup port ISA’s vision of a rapid increase in solar energy use around the world. The pace of this increase must be such that the global com munity can achieve an ambitious goal of net

$5-million TECO gift

to fund CERC research

Tampa Electric is invest ing $5 million in the University of South Florida to fund research, education and innovation that aim to reduce carbon and improve the environment.

In its effort to explore, re search and develop emerg

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ing energy technologies that reduce carbon, Tampa Electric’s investment will create an endowed fund to support the Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) in USF’s College of Engineering. It is the largest single outright gift ever given to the college.

CERC SPOTLIGHT

To recognize the gift, CERC is being renamed the TECO Clean Energy Re search Center.

This commitment will further strengthen the long standing relationship be tween TECO and USF. The

NAME: Diego Jesus Guillen Perez AGE: 35

TITLE AT CERC: Ph.D. researcher

KOSSI TEPE

Working to improve solar plant design, p.6

DANIEL GARRAIN

Studying sustainability and circular economy, p.7

BACKGROUND: I was born and raised in Barranquilla, a port city located on the north side of Colombia, well known for its carnival and gastronomy. I moved five years ago to Tampa when I began a Ph.D. In chemical

GUILLEN

DIEGO

Doctoral researcher graduated in August.

Photo by CAROL BLAIR | USF CERC

From left, Dr. Robert Bishop, Dean of the College of Engineering; Dr. Yogi Goswami, CERC Director; Archie Collins, Tampa Electric President and CEO; and Rhea Law, USF President, celebrate with “bullhorns” after TECO’s gift announcement Aug. 31.

Researcher seeks to improve solar-to-thermal conversion

CERC FACES

TOGETHER AT NEXTERA: Five former USF CERC researchers now work at NextEra Energy. From left are four of them in Juno Beach together at the NextEra cafeteria with “Horns Up!”: Tanvir Alam (Graduated in 2015); Rajeev Kamal (2017); Francesca Moloney (2019); and Rachana Vidhi (2014). Not pictured is Jamie Trahan (2015).

DAVE GRADUATES: Dave Young graduated in August with a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering. His dissertation was on “Passive Radiative Cooling with Spectrally Selective Nanopar ticles in Thick Film Nanocompos ites.” To learn more about Dave and his work, read his “CERC SPOTLIGHT” published previous ly in the newsletter and on our website at: http://cerc.eng.usf.edu/ spotlight.html

A WEDDING AND MORE: Martina Leveni, a former visiting and post-doc toral researcher at CERC, married Manfredi Villani on May 7 in Chiesa di San Pietro in Montorio Piazza S. Pietro in Rome, Italy. Former CERC researcher Kelly Osterman was among those atttending. Martina is now a post-doc at Ohio State, and started a new position there in the Legacy program in February. It is a new postdoctoral scholars program that’s preparing the next generation of di verse engineering leaders in academia. Founded in 2021, the program aims to increase the number of under-represented minority postdocs who transition to faculty positions within the College of Engineering. LEGACY—which stands for Leading Engineering as Agents of Change and Equity—also focuses on establishing quality mentoring relationships, enhancing research opportu nities, and building strong scholarly communities. Martina’s research involves energy and environmental systems, carbon management, renewable energy, geoenergy systems, techno-economic assessment, optimization, systems and process level analysis, and reservoir modeling.

A GRANDSON AND GRANDDAUGHTER

IN CALIFORNIA: Dr. Goswa mi, CERC Director, welcomed a grandson, Om Vishwa Goswami, above, in June, and a grand daughter, Mira Tulsi Rao, in Sep tember in California.

TECO GIFT

$5-million gift will come from shareholder funds.

“This partnership is a key pillar in our vision to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050,” said Archie Collins, president and chief executive officer of Tampa Electric. “We have made great progress: Carbon emissions today are half what they were in 2000, and our investment in solar pow er has reduced fuel costs by more than $100 million this year. But our vision of a net-zero future will not be an easy journey. The path will undoubtedly include emerging technologies and innovations. We feel a re sponsibility to help fund and spur that innovation, and what better partner than the talented team at USF?”

Tom Hernandez, TECO’s Senior Vice President of De carbonization, said the USF collaboration will focus on research and development, evaluating the potential of emerging technologies that will be very important to TE CO’s sustainability plans.

“This gift can help us figure out what can help us now, and also what future technology can help,” Her nandez said.

As one of the nation’s leading research univer sities, “The university is committed to conducting high-impact research to help solve global problems and improve lives, and clean energy accomplishes both,” said USF President Rhea Law. “We are grateful to Tampa Electric for their investment and this op portunity to collaborate on finding innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions, find affordable clean ener gy alternatives and protect

courtesy of TECO

PARTNERSHIP: USF President Rhea Law and Tampa Electric President and CEO Archie Collins announce TECO’s gift to CERC at the Florida Chamber Association’s Technology & Innovation Solution Summit Aug. 31.

TECO, USF ANNOUNCE

our beautiful Tampa Bay region.”

The university has worked with TECO on other clean-energy solutions, such as carbon sequestra tion, electric vehicles, smart grid technology and solar array efficiency. One in 10 Tampa Electric employees attends or graduated from USF.

And 80 percent of TE CO’s engineers are from USF, TECO’s Hernandez said.

One of them is Dru Latchman, the Process/ Mechanical Engineering Lead on the Outage and Project Management Team at TECO, who has worked there for 22 years.

She studied chemical en gineering at USF and gradu ated with her bachelor’s in 2001 and her master’s in 2010.

Her research at CERC for her master’s was on carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuel power plants using dolomite.

“My experience at CERC has greatly supported my

work at Tampa Electric,” Latchman said. “Upon grad uating from USF with my Master’s, I became part of a project team and looked at doing carbon sequestra tion from the gasification process as part of a partner ship between Department of Energy, RTI and Tampa Electric. I was also fortunate enough to study ammonia manufacturing and carbon sequestration by combining carbon dioxide and calcium to create calcium carbon ate. With my academic knowledge and experience of carbon dioxide capture obtained at CERC, I was better able and equipped to lead the project’s process engineering efforts for Tam pa Electric,” she said.

Latchman hopes this gift will continue providing opportunities for partnerships between engineering students and industry to strengthen both sides by “giving students the oppor tunity to work on real-life issues and providing industry with the academic and theory base to solve techni

cal issues,” she said.

Robert H. Bishop, Dean of the USF College of Engineering, said, “Re newable energy resources provide substantial benefits to our society, economy and overall health through job development and creation, and reduced carbon emis sions and pollution.”

TECO has been a great partner for the Clean En ergy Research Center for research on solar energy and student education, said CERC Director Yogi Goswa mi. “We appreciate TECO’s commitment to the future of clean energy development and decarbonizing the pow er grid,” said Dr. Goswami.

Tampa Electric has be come the leading producer of solar energy per cus tomer in the state. So far, the company has installed nearly 900 megawatts (MW) of solar. By the end of 2023, Tampa Electric will be gen erating enough solar energy to power 200,000 homes.

Compiled from reports by USF Advancement and USF CERC Publications Editor Carol Blair.

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Journal launched at COP26

zero carbon emissions by 2050 (NZE2050) to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C. Obviously, achieving this will require a lot more action than just accelerating solar energy use. However, solar energy, including indi rect solar energy forms of wind, biomass, ocean etc., will have to be a major con tributor to achieve this goal. Several countries have al ready introduced targets to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, while others are seriously considering this target. However, actually achieving this target will be an incredible challenge to say the least. To help meet this challenge, ISA and Elsevier are joining forces to launch Solar Compass to share transformative infor mation on policy, financing, technology, and case stud ies with the stakeholders.

The mission of ISA is very much in line with my own life-long mission and my dream to see us achieve the global goal of net zero carbon emissions for which solar energy will be the key. After 50 years of experience as a researcher, author, editor, educator, and entre preneur, it is my honor to lead Solar Compass as its Editor-in-Chief to help ISA achieve its vision. I realized almost half a century ago during turmoil in the global oil markets that the only sustainable energy source for our future is solar energy in its direct and indirect forms. That realization motivated me to start my research and development to advance scientific knowl

edge and technologies for solar energy applications. As we became aware of the global climate change in the 1980s, it became my passion to be a part of the solution.

My journey has included teaching solar energy to thousands of students and advising hundreds of M.S. and Ph.D. students who are now spreading knowledge in countries throughout the world. I co-founded two so lar companies that designed and built hundreds of solar heating and cooling systems and three multi-megawatt solar power systems. And, since information transfer is so critical to technology and policy development in the world, I contributed to this task as an editor of journals and publications such as the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering and American Solar Energy Society’s Advances in Solar Energy, starting in 1990. Most recently, I served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Solar Energy Society’s flagship journal Solar Energy from 2002 to

2020.

During those two de cades of rapid scientific and industrial research and development, the costs of solar systems have dropped and the policies in major countries of the world have become conducive to rapid deployment of solar and wind power. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that most of the global growth in new energy capacity in the future will come from solar and wind power. Despite all the trends in the right direction, both International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Internation al Energy Agency (IEA) project that we will fall woefully short of achieving the NZE2050 or limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C if we continue with the current policies of the countries. We must dramat ically increase the targets for reduction in primary energy use and growth in renewable energy as soon as possible.

Achieving the necessary renewable energy targets is not going to be easy, yet it

is imperative that the global community understand the challenges and find ways to meet them. Both the IRENA and IEA reports provide the targets for various components, such as solar and wind power, biomass, renewable hydrogen, hydro power, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), as well as energy efficiency. However, they don’t provide how the targets will be achieved. This is where ISA has a key role to play.

There is not one silver bullet to achieve the net zero goal. It will require a multi-pronged approach on new, innovative and more efficient technologies, lower-cost manufacturing at scale, investments at scale to support entrepreneurship in new technologies, and financing at the consumer end to ensure adoption, while also taking care of the global societal issues to ensure access for all people of the world.

One key ingredient is the communication of informa tion to the stakeholders. Solar Compass will play this key role in the global quest to achieve the target of net zero. While the existing solar and renewable energy journals are doing a great job of publishing prog ress in long-term scientific research, and the renew able energy magazines are providing current news to the public, there is a serious gap of information needed to help accelerate the use of the most appropriate solar technologies in the world. Solar Compass is designed to fill this important gap. The

Solar Compass is launched at COP26 with ISA Director General Dr. Ajay Mathur, right, and Stephane Crouzat, Climate Ambassa dor, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic.

LAUNCH OF ‘SOLAR COMPASS’

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journal will cover new tech nology developments ready for commercialization, poli cy, and economic develop ments to increase access, manufacturing scale-up to reduce costs, successful case studies from around the world that could be replicated elsewhere, and appropriate technologies to support energy access for all.

While most international organizations, including IEA and IRENA, project future estimates of energy based on the present technolo gies and some incremental improvements, they are not in a position to foresee what impactful new technolo gies will be available in the future, which might com pletely change our predic tions. As an example, about 25% of all the energy used in the U.S. is for cooling of buildings. Although that percentage is lower for the rest of the world, it is rapidly increasing. Since buildings are cooled exclusively by electrical power, at present we can only hope to replace that electricity with power from renewable energy. However, a very promising innovation on the horizon in scientific and engineer ing research is to develop coatings for building skins that will emit long wave length infra-red radiation in the atmospheric window (8–13 mm wavelength) to deep space, which is at a temperature close to absolute zero. This technol ogy, when developed, will cool the buildings simply by transferring the heat from the buildings to the outer space by radiation. When this technology becomes practical and commercially available, there might not

Dr. Yogi Goswami, CERC Direc tor, was the editor-in-chief of the journal Solar Energy from 2002 to 2020.

Dr. Sam Wi jewardane, a CERC visiting research scholar, is So lar Compass’ editor for in novations and inventions.

be any need for mechanical cooling or heating of build ings in many parts of the world. Just as we have seen developments in computer and information technolo gies in the last two decades that we could not even imagine 30 years back, we will see developments in solar and ambient energy space that we can barely imagine today.

Solar Compass will bring such transformative infor mation to entrepreneurs and industry for rapid commer cialization to benefit society. Such information will be presented in the journal both as detailed articles and as short descriptions of new inventions and patents. The journal will cover solar technologies for power pro duction (PV, CSP and future

innovations), heating, cool ing, industrial process heat, chemical and environmental applications, solar cooking, solar water desalination and any other innovation that has the potential to have a major impact in global energy use.

On the policy front, although the concept of feedin tariff for solar and wind power has been known for more than 40 years, it was more broadly adopted in the world only in the last decade. Similarly, although Nobel Laureate Profes sor Muhammad Yunus introduced the concept of micro-finance for allevia tion of poverty by way of Grameen Bank in 1983, and this has been successfully used in Bangladesh, India, and some other countries for village-based solar entrepreneurs, it is still not in widespread use in African countries. Solar Compass will bring information on innovative policy and financ ing options that can accel erate widespread access to solar energy in poor rural communities in the world. Programs and policies or financing options that have worked successfully in any part of the world will also be published so that they may be replicated.

Solar Compass will be come an important source of peer-reviewed practical information for national and local governments, new technology entrepreneurs, small and large renewable energy industry, investors and financial institutions, NGOs and global organi zations, and others. All of these stakeholders will play important roles in realizing the vision of ISA.

Solar Compass will be an Open Access journal, to provide free, easy elec tronic access to all readers around the world. The initial publication frequency will be quarterly, which might increase. We welcome well-researched articles from authors around the world for submission to this journal. All articles will be peer reviewed before publi cation. An advisory board of visionary leaders will guide the directions of the journal, and an editorial board of globally renowned experts will plan, solicit articles and conduct reviews before accepting the articles for publication in Solar Com pass.

Solar Compass will fill the gap in information need ed to accelerate the use of solar energy. I look forward to working with ISA, Elsevi er, our Board of Editors and Advisors and the stakehold ers for accomplishing this important task in achieving a critical global target.

We welcome you to submit your manuscripts to Solar Compass and join us in this journey.

For more information on the submission, review, and publi cation processes, please visit the Journal Homepage: https:// www.journals.elsevier.com/solar-compass

The International Solar Alliance spotlighted the new Solar Com pass journal in its June 2022 newsletter. Editors launched the journal with a live forum on June 1.

KOSSI TEPE

CERC RESEARCHERS

BACKGROUND: I come from the University of Lomé in Togo, where I have been a researcher and assistant professor since 2015. As an assistant professor at the University of Lomé, my teaching activities are focused on both computer science and physics. I was appointed: • as assistant in physics and computer science in 2013 • as assistant professor in 2015. • As the Deputy Director of the university’s computer center in charge of computer networks in 2021. I teach undergrad uate classes in physics and computer science and have also supervised master’s students in these areas. My research activities take place in the Solar Energy laboratory, directed now by Professor Magolmèèna Banna at the University of Lomé. It is composed of two research groups: Unesco Chair on Renewable Energy (UCRE) and Transfer and Energetic Phenome na. I joined this laboratory during my Ph.D. research in 2001 while working on the characterization of solar cells and didactic tools between two major laboratories: Solar Energy Laboratory at the University of Lomé (Togo) and the Laboratory of Physics of Materials at the University of Poitiers (France). These research activities also allowed me to travel to the University of Augs burg in Germany in December 2015.

EDUCATION: • Ph.D., applied phys ics, 2011, University of Lome (Togo), Concentration: Solar energy, renew able energy and collaborative facilities. • Graduate Degree in Engineering Science, 2004, University of Lome (Togo), Concentration: Electrical engi neering and computer science • BSc in Computer Science, 1995, University of Lome (Togo), Concentration: Comput er trouble shooting, network design and configuration • MSc in Physics, 1994, University of Lome (Togo), Fundamental physics • BSc in Phys ics, 1992 University of Lome (Togo), Fundamental physics

Visiting CERC researcher Kossi Tepe wants to help improve solar installation and avoid problems in the design of solar systems.

KEY RESEARCH INTEREST: Renewable Energy (photovoltaics) and IT (materials, networks and system security)

WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THIS AREA? One of my professors discovered that my different skills in physics and computer science could be useful in their research on photo voltaic materials and proposed that I work with them for my Ph.D. research.

WHAT RESEARCH ARE YOU CONDUCTING AT CERC? I work in the field of renewable energy, especially photovoltaic materials and system de sign. At the University of Lomé in Togo we worked on the characterization of solar photovoltaic materials used in the production of electricity. At CERC

one of my projects is the design of a solar power plant with the possibility for simulation of its various components using the System Advisor Model (SAM) software. This software, which I used for the first time at CERC, permits us to design various solar-size projects and simulate the efficiency, the financial model and the rentability (low cost of energy to produce) of the type of installation (single owner or on-grid installation). We used some specific databases (NSRDB) integrat ed in the software (such as weather files and vendors of components), which can be completed and adapted to those available in my country for the improvement of the projects. We expect, with this collaboration, to become a center with expertise in the installation of solar power plants in my country and enable our graduate students to work on the design and efficiency of such projects. In addition to this research project, I worked at CERC on ongoing research on ther mochromic materials.

HOW LONG WILL YOU BE WORKING AT CERC? My visiting research appointment at USF is for three months.

ULTIMATE GOALS PROFESSIONALLY: My ultimate goals are to continue our collaboration and not only to learn, but also use the designing solar systems knowledge in my home university. I will also participate in the ongoing research and possibly contrib ute to future publications.

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU? • Discover new research in the fields of renew able energy. • Conduct this research in my home university and help improve solar installation and avoid problems in the design of solar systems (poorly sized components, sometimes components not meeting the characteristics of suppliers and solar systems not meeting customer expectations). • The need to discover how an American university functions and learn about its culture. Improvement of my English is a secondary challenge.

TITLE AT CERC: Visiting Fulbright scholar

DANIEL GARRAIN

NAME: AGE: 44

TITLE AT CERC: Visiting scholar

BACKGROUND: I was born in Castellón, a nice Mediterranean city in the East of Spain. After I ob tained my Ph.D., I moved to Madrid to start my current job as a Senior Researcher in CIEMAT (www. ciemat.es), the Spanish Research Center on Energy, Environment and Technologies.

EDUCATION: I got my degrees from the University Jaume I of Castellón (www.uji.es): chemical engineering in 2002, and a Ph.D. in chemical and envi ronmental engineer ing in 2009.

KEY RESEARCH INTEREST: Sustainability and circular economy applied to energy technolo gies.

WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THIS AREA? My learning in chemical engi neering allowed me to acquire knowl edge in materials flow analysis and energy balances, which helped me to develop my research career mainly focused on environmental analysis through the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. My experience as a LCA researcher has offered me a very interesting topic to develop and apply. This tool is the basis for quantifying potential environmental impacts, but its approach can be applied to the other two pillars of sustainability, that is, both social and economic impacts. It is also a key method for the evaluation of the circularity of processes and prod ucts. Therefore, quantifying how systems, especially those related to energy, can be more sustainable and improve the circular economy is the main focus of my research.

WHAT RESEARCH ARE YOU CONDUCTING AT CERC? The focus of my research will be ap

CERC RESEARCHERS

DIEGO GUILLEN

plication of the LCA approach in materials, prototypes and energy systems developed in the lab. My first project will be to assess how the encapsulation of Phase Change Materials potentially could improve the environmental impact of thermal storage facilities through their use ful life, and the analysis of circulari ty of the raw materials for manufac turing the capsules. I hope to work on as many projects as possible, so time will tell.

HOW LONG WILL YOU BE AT CERC? I will be at CERC until the end of March 2023.

ULTIMATE GOALS PROFESSIONAL

LY: One of the main goals for a research er is the publication of scientific articles but, at least in Spain and Europe, to be able to obtain public funding for the development of projects is essen tial. That is why I am proud to have obtained funding for a project to analyze the repair and recycling processes of photovoltaic modules at the end of their useful life, in terms of sus tainability and circularity. This is one of the more interesting projects that I am currently working on. The main goal of my research stay at CERC is to support the synergy between our centers by exchanging and transferring experiences, expertise and know-how. The publication of our results in scientific high JCR impact journals is another objective, to make them available to the inter national scientific community.

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU? To make a better world. My research is focused on learning whether an energy system is more sustainable or not, so this inspires me to go on and do my part to save the environment and make a better world for the next generations.

Diego Guillen presented his dissertation on “Multiple Solar Receivers Arrange ment for High-Temperature Power Gen eration and Applications.”

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engineering at USF.

EDUCATION: My alma mater is Univer sidad del Norte, Barranquilla, where I got a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and attended graduate studies.

KEY RESEARCH INTEREST: Sustain ability, renewable and solar energy, and developing new technologies.

WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THIS AREA? Sustainability in the nexus of food, water, and energy is critical to keeping a healthy ecosystem for us and new generations. In this sense, the solar resource is more than enough to supply our energy needs while helping mitigate climate change.

WHAT RESEARCH ARE YOU CONDUCTING AT CERC?: I am researching the generation of high-temperature and quality energy using concentrated solar power for process heat or power genera tion. And in particular, my project focuses on using multiple receivers to improve the solar to thermal conversion on cen tral receiver plants.

ULTIMATE GOALS PROFESSIONALLY, IN ENGINEERING OR OTHERWISE: My ultimate goal as an engineer and researcher is helping to generate solutions for everyday needs.

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU? My family, food, and coffee.

CLEAN ENERGY IS GREEN ENERGY

Florida has no substantial indigenous supply of fossil fuels but we do have solar and biomass resources. The Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) at the University of South Florida pursues research and development of new and environmentally clean energy systems. See our website for a complete listing of our research, patents and publications: cerc.eng.usf.edu

KEY RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Environmentally clean energy systems

• Solar thermal power

• Photovoltaics

• Concentrating solar power

• Energy storage (phase change materials, thermal storage, batteries, supercapacitors)

• Photocatalytic detoxification/disinfection technologies

• Smart materials (Thermochromics and electrochromics)

• New efficient thermodynamic cycles

• Solar energy conversion via rectifying antennae

• Biomass conversion/biofuels

• Solar water desalination and distillation

• Design of solar plants on reclaimed land

CERC DIRECTORS

Dr. Yogi Goswami is a Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Clean Energy Research Center at USF, as well as Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Solar Energy journal and Editor-in-Chief of Solar Compass. A member of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, he has more than 40 years of experience in education, research, entrepreneurship, leader ship and policy development. Dr. Goswami is co-founder and Chief Science & Technology Advisor of Molekule, Inc., which commercialized his Photoelectrochemical Oxidation (PECO) technology for air purification at the molecular level.

Contact: goswami@usf.edu

Dr. Elias K. Stefanakos is a USF professor and Director of the Clean Energy Research Center and focuses on research and development related to renewable energy sourc es and systems, such as concentrated solar power systems, Smart materials (thermochromics and electrochromics), photo voltaic energy, solar charging stations, and battery testing.

Contact: estefana@usf.edu

CERC STAFF

TIM MEAD, Lab Manager and Engineer

Contact: timead@usf.edu

CAROL BLAIR, Publications Editor

Contact: carol11@usf.edu

Venkat Bhethanabotla, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Prasanta Kumar Biswas, Ph.D., Courtesy Professor, Electrical Engineering

Jeffrey Cunningham, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jamie Chilton, Ph.D., Instructor, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering

Tapas Das, Ph.D., Professor, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering

Sarina Ergas, Ph.D., Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lingling Fan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Chris Ferekides, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical Engineering

Andrew Hoff, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical Engineering

Robert E. Hooker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Business Babu Joseph, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Burton Krakow, Ph.D., Retired Research Associate

John Kuhn, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Ashok Kumar, Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Zhuo Lu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering

Zhixin Miao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Don Morel, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical Engineering

Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical Engineering

Ajit Mujumdar, Ph.D., Instructor, Mechanical Engineering

Mahshid Rahnamay Naeini, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering

George Nolas, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor, Physics

George Philippidis, Ph.D., Professor, Patel College for Global Sustainability

Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physics

Stanley Russell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Architecture

Rudy Schlaf, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical Engineering

Paul Schnitzler, Ph.D., Retired Instructor II, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering

Sesha Srinivasan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physics, Florida Polytechnic University

Mark Stewart, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Geosciences

Arash Takshi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Yasin Yilmaz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Yu Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering