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College of Engineering Receives $783,936 GAANN Grant
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The USF College of Engineering was recently awarded a Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grant, which will support a group of six to eight Ph.D. students to pursue research and education at the Water, Materials, Energy, Human Nexus with faculty from the departments of Civil and Environmental, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
The project management team includes faculty engineering members Maya Trotz, Delcie Durham and James Mihelcic, whose research and educational activities support the USF vision for sustaining healthy communities.
"We are extremely happy to receive this grant, which will train students to take a multidisciplinary approach to solving some of the world's grand challenges and really push the traditional engineering fields to consider sustainability and how it can be incorporated into graduate training," said Trotz.
Helen Muga, a post-doctoral researcher working with Mihelcic, worked tirelessly in helping to put the large grant together, which includes both a research and educational component for training the new cohort of American students.
Through the multidisciplinary program students will take a core set of classes on water, energy, materials, social interactions, and sustainability as well as engage in interdisciplinary seminars and project based research activities. The educational component of the grant will prepare students for academic careers and includes mentorship of undergraduate and masters’ students in the Master's International Peace Corps Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering, completion of a teaching certificate from the Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence, and pairing with an educational faculty mentor.
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