Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Nicholas Albergo, PE, DEE, MSCE
Environmental
Professor of Practice
Email | 813-974-2275
Dr. Katherine Alfredo, PE
Environmental
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Drinking water quality and treatment, sustainable potable water provisions,
US and international water quality regulation, community support of drinking water
technology and utilities
Office: ENC 3212 | Email | Phone: 813-974-9612
Dr. Christopher L. Alexander
Structures and Materials
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Corrosion diagnosis and control, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy,
Multi-physics modeling
Office: ENC 3208 | Email | Phone: 813-974-1137 | Website
Dr. Mauricio E. Arias, PE
Water Resources
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Water resources sustainability; Ecological Engineering; Watershed
Hydrology; Water Quality Modeling; Wetland Ecohydrology, Environmental Flows.
Office: ENC 3216 | Email | 813-974-5593 | Website
Dr. William Carpenter
Structures and Materials
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Jeffrey A. Cunningham
Environmental
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Contaminant fate/transport, Physical, chemical, & biological processes
for water treatment/water quality control, Water resources & water reuse, Groundwater
remediation, Geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide
Office: ENC 3215 | Email | 813-974-9540 | Website
Dr. Sarina J. Ergas, PE
Environmental
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Research Areas: Biological treatment processes, Nutrient recovery, Water reuse, Low
impact development technologies, Sustainable algal biofuel systems
Office: ENC 3210 | Email | 813-974-1119 | Website
Dr. Manjriker Gunaratne, PE
Geotechnical
Professor and Department Chair
Research Areas: Modeling of soil and pavement material behavior, modeling of uncertainty
in geotechnical systems using probability methods, fuzzy sets and neural networks,
application of numerical techniques to pavement design and management, application
of digital imaging and satellite technology to solve geotechnical and pavement engineering
problems.
Office: ENC 3303 | Email | 813-974-5818
Dr. Stanley C. Kranc, PE
Structures and Materials Professor Emeritus
Research Areas: Fluid mechanics/heat transfer, Numerical analysis/modeling, Philosophy/history
of Technology
Office: ENG 303 | Email | 813-974-5821
Dr. Xiaopeng "Shaw" Li
Transportation
Associate Professor, Susan A. Bracken Faculty Fellow
Research Areas: Connected automated traffic analysis and control, Sustainable infrastructure
systems design, Sensor networks
Office: ENG 207 | Email | 813-974-0778 | Website
Dr. Pei-Sung Lin, P.E., PTOE, FITE
Transportation
Program Director, ITS, Traffic Operations and Safety, Center for Urban Transportation
Research
Research Areas: ITS, Traffic operations, Safety
Office: CUTR 125 | Email | 813-974-4910
Dr. Qing Lu
Transportation
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Pavement engineering, Asphalt mix design, Pavement management system,
Transportation infrastructure management, Steel bridge deck surfacing
Office: ENC 3209 | Email | 813-974-5822 | Website
Dr. Fred L. Mannering
Transportation
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Research Areas: Statistical & econometric methods, Highway safety, Transportation
economics, Automobile demand, Travel behavior.
Office: ENC 3506 | Email | 813-974-5817 | Website
Dr. Michael Maness
Transportation
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Travel Behavior, Travel Demand Forecasting, Choice Modeling, Modeling Social Interactions, Emerging Transportation Technologies, Sustainable Transportation, Travel Survey Methods.
Office: CUTR 233 | Email | 813-974-6144 | Website
Dr. James R. Mihelcic, BCEEM
Environmental | Samuel L. and Julia M. Flom Endowed Professor | Director, National
Center for Reinventing Aging Infrastructure for Nutrient Management
Research Areas: Sustainability, Impact of anthropogenic stressors on water resources,
Water supply, Water reuse, Nutrient management, Water/sanitation/hygiene (WASH) in
the developing world, Engineering education.
Office: ENC 3508 | Email | 813-974-9896 | Website
Dr. Gray Mullins, PE
Structures and Materials
Professor
Research Areas: Foundation Load Testing, Foundation Rehabilitation, Structural/Geotechnical
Instrumentation, Quality Assurance of Drilled Shafts, Post Grouted Drilled Shaft Design/Construction
Office: ENG 42 | Email | 813-974-5845 | Website
Dr. Mahmood Nachabe, PE
Water Resources
Professor
Research Areas: Hydraulics & water supply systems, Soil & ecosystem hydrology, Flow
& contaminant transport in porous media, Stochastic hydrology
Office: ENG 320 | Email | 813-974-5837 | CV
Karim Nohra
Engineering Education
Associate Instructor
Undergraduate advisor
Research Areas:: Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Education
Office: ENC 3301 | Email | 813-974-5594
Dr. Mark Ross, PE
Water Resources
Professor
Research Areas: Water resources, Hydraulic & water quality modeling, GIS in Hydrology,
Development of lake & estuary water quality management models & estuary sediment dynamics
Office: ENG 307 | Email | 813-974-5838 | CV
Dr. Alberto Sagüés, PE, FNACE
Structures and Materials
Emeritus Distinguished University Professor
Research Areas: Materials engineering, Corrosion performance of materials for construction
& energy applications, Failure analysis & prevention, Physical metallurgy
Office: ENL 112 | Email | 813-974-5819 | Website
Dr. Rajan Sen, PE, FACI, FASCE
Structures and Materials
Emeritus Professor and Jefferson Science Fellow
Research Areas: Structural engineering including design of bridges, Dynamic response
of structures, Dynamic behavior of piles, Pre-stress concrete
Office: ENG 41 | Email | 813-974-5820
Dr. Daniel Simkins
Structures and Materials
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Computational mechanics, Numerical analysis, Composite materials,
Computational engineering
Office: ENC 3206 | Email | 813-974-4174 | Website
Dr. Michael J. Stokes, PE
Structures and Materials
Associate Professor of Instruction
Research Areas: Foundation load testing, Non-destructive foundation integrity testing,
FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer) repair of corroding piles, Engineering education.
Office: ENG 43 | Email | 813-974-8244
Dr. Amy Stuart
Environmental
Professor
Research Areas: Air pollution, Atmospheric chemistry, Environmental computational
modeling, Urban design & human exposure to transportation emissions
Office: CPH 1117 | Email | 813-974-6632 | Website
Dr. Andrés E. Tejada-Martínez
Water Resources
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Numerical simulations of turbulent flows; vertical turbulent mixing
in the upper ocean and coastal shelves; mixing/hydraulic efficiency of water and wastewater
treatment systems; finite element, finite difference and spectral methods for fluids;
parallel computing.
Office: ENC 3207 | Email | 813-974-1738 | Website
Dr. Maya A. Trotz
Environmental
Professor | Faculty Fellow at Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions
Research Areas: Sustainability, Water quality, Ecotourism & small scale mining impacts
on sustainable livelihoods, Climate change, Environmental engineering education in
formal & informal settings in the US and in developing countries
Office: ENC 3502 | Email | 813-974-3172 | Website
Dr. Daniel H. Yeh, PE, LEED AP
Environmental
Professor
Research Areas: Water purification, wastewater resource recovery and life support
in challenging, off-grid and remote environments; Autonomous, self-powered water machines;
Anaerobic and phototrophic membrane bioreactors; Food-to-food (F2F) Biorecycling;
Innovations at water-energy-food nexus.
Office: ENC 3213 | Email | 813-974-4746 | Website
Dr. Abla Zayed
Structures and Materials
Professor
Research Areas: Cementitious systems, Construction materials durability
Office: ENG 221 | Email | 813-974-5823
Dr. Qiong Zhang
Environmental
Professor
Research Areas: Green engineering, Sustainability, Life cycle assessment, Water-energy
nexus, coupled nature-human system modeling, Environmental fate & transport modeling,
Water supply & treatment, Engineering education
Office: ENC 3214 | Email | 813-974-6448 | Website
Dr. Yu Zhang
Transportation
Professor
Research Areas: Transportation systems modeling & analysis, Air traffic management
& performance evaluation, Sustainable transportation, Energy & Environment, Autonomous
systems, Logistics & freight transportation, Transportation safety
Office: ENC 3211 | Email | 813-974-5846 | Website
Kristin Morico
Adjunct
Professor
Research Areas: Potable water supply/operations/design/policy, Wastewater design/operations,
Air quality policy/science/design, Waste policy/management/circular economy, Remedial
investigation/policy/design, ESG/sustainability, Environment/health/safety compliance
Office: ENC 3210 | Email