Civil Engineering

Top research grants awarded to the College of Engineering (2024–2025)

1. Advancing marine technology

$14.7 million
Source: Department of Energy
PI: Bryson Robertson

This grant supports research and development activities at the Pacific Marine Energy Center focused on advancing marine energy technology. Projects include testing energy converter components, developing systems to protect river turbines from debris, simulating performance, and studying environmental impacts, and aiming to improve this renewable energy source for industry advancement.

Forrest J. Masters

Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E. (FL), has deep roots in the mission of a land-grant public university serving a coastal state—beginning as a 4Her in his youth and later as a professor of civil and coastal engineering who studies extreme weather effects on the built and natural environment. One of the more interesting aspects of this work is field reconnaissance in extreme storms, which involves deploying instrumentation in the path of hurricanes right up until landfall.