Kamal Tawfiq, professor and former chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, was honored with the 2023 Outstanding Technical Achievement of the Year award from the Florida Engineering Society. Tawfiq received recognition at the annual Engineers Week banquet for a lifetime of technical and educational contributions to the engineering community in Tallahassee, Florida and beyond.

Two FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers won prestigious National Science Foundation early-career awards designed to celebrate emerging leaders in their fields. 

Juyeong Choi, an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering and Lichun Li, an assistant professor in industrial and manufacturing engineering, received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards and will receive a five-year grant from the NSF.

When hurricanes strike Florida, the safest option is sometimes to get out of harm’s way. But leaving home to avoid an oncoming storm presents its own challenges, especially for the state’s most vulnerable residents.

A two-year, $215,000 study led by FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Professor Yassir AbdelRazig for the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will help the state address the transportation needs of the vulnerable Floridians during a disaster.

An assistant professor in civil engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering received the Fred Burggraf Award for excellence in transportation research from the Transportation Research Board (TRB). 

Michael Elwardany received the award with his co-authors David Mensching and Varun Veginati for their paper, “Evaluating the Sensitivity of Intermediate Temperature Performance Tests to Multiple Loose Mixt

The destructive winds and storm surges of hurricanes are well-known dangers. But these massive storms bring another peril in their aftermath — tons of debris that poses a health risk for residents and creates an additional challenge for recovery.

Fluctuating volumes of debris and illegal dumping complicate that challenge for officials seeking to hasten cleanup efforts and rebuild in the wake of hurricanes.

Years after Hurricane Michael devastated Florida’s Gulf Coast, residents of that area are still struggling to overcome the trauma of the Category 5 storm. 

In a recent study, FSU researchers found that trauma and a host of psychosocial and physical challenges caused by Hurricane Michael are disproportionately affecting the region’s Black communities.  

When Hurricane Michael made landfall in 2018 near Mexico Beach, it was the first time a Category 5 hurricane hit Florida since 1992.