Faculty Honored at College Awards Ceremony
Three members of our department were recently honored at the College of Engineering's 16th Annual Distinguished Faculty Awards event. The College of Engineering annually honors faculty members for their teaching and research.
Linda Weavers
Professor Linda Weavers was recognized for her outstanding efforts in encouraging females to enter the environmental engineering field. She developed a summer camp for eighth grade girls and mentored undergraduate honors students to continue for advanced degrees. Over half of her graduate students are female, reinforcing her commitment to diversity. This award recognizes an individual or team demonstrating excellence and success in the development and implementation of models, strategies, practices and programs that foster and enhance diversity in the college.
Ethan Kubatko
Dr. Ethan Kubatko was recognized for his interdisciplinary research activities, combining fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, physical oceanography, and computer science. Dr. Kubatko has worked on events that need a rapid response time, such as oil spill movement, tsunami events, and hurricanes, requiring complex computational tools to address such dynamic movements over huge areas. Dr. Kubatko has strong collaborations at the University of Central Florida, University of Notre Dame, and the University of Texas, as evidenced by his NSF Collaborative Research Projects. Dr. Kubatko has participated annually in the J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), UT – Austin. Dr. Kubatko and his graduate students have been heavily involved in both the national and international computational mechanics communities.
Charles Toth
Dr. Charles Toth was recognized for his research activities in real time mapping and LiDAR research. He has extensive professional involvement with the American Society of Photogrammetry (ASPRS) and the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). He has been very active in publishing in the top journals in his field, including Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, ISPRS Book Series on Mobile Mapping Technology, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, and Journal of Applied Geodesy. Dr. Toth is the recipient of the ASPRS Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild), 2009, the highest merit-based award given by ASPRS. Over the past five years, Dr. Toth has been involved as a PI or co-PI on several projects, totaling nearly $6 million.
The Lumley Engineering Research Awards are presented to a select group of outstanding researchers in the College of Engineering who have shown exceptional activity and success in pursuing new knowledge of a fundamental or applied nature.
