Affiliate Members

 

GANG CHEN, Professor - Gang Chen is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His principal research interest is in the area of watershed management, land use change and climate change, water flow and physicochemical reactions in the porous media, nutrient cycling, and landfill leachate management. His research is focused on watershed modeling, hydrologic and water flow modeling, fate and transport of non-point source agricultural pollutants, system design and integrated approaches of workable and cost-effective solutions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOHN O. SOBANJO, Professor - John O. Sobanjo, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in Tallahassee, Florida. Dr. Sobanjo has a diverse background in civil engineering, with specific interests in the areas of transportation infrastructure systems, construction, materials, safety, resilience, sustainability, and applications of advanced technologies in civil engineering. He has been a principal investigator on about $6 million federal and state-funded research projects and has produced several journal publications and technical reports. Dr. Sobanjo is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is an Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, and also on the Editorial Board of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems. He has reviewed several research proposals for various national agencies, as well as reviewed journal papers for many publishers. Dr. Sobanjo is a licensed professional engineer in the states of California and Florida, with considerable industrial experience in various aspects of transportation design, traffic analysis, structural analysis, bridge inspection, construction, and maintenance, including over six years with both the Texas Department of Transportation (Texas DOT) and California State Department of Transportation (CalTrans). Dr. Sobanjo currently serves as the Director of the FSU’s Center for Accessibility and Safety for an Aging Population

 

CARL MOORE is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include robot-based 3D printing, haptic interface design and control and teleoperation. He was instrumental in the development of cobot technology - a novel human-robot technology. Through NSF HBCU-UP and RISE programs, he has recruited and trained URM undergraduate and graduate students and facilitated REU programs. He currently serves as the Title III director for the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. Dr. Moore has professional experience as a manufacturing engineer for Eastman Kodak Company in the Copy Products and Single-Use Camera divisions. He also has professional research experience with Ford Motor Company's Interactive Conceptual Design and Applications lab where he studied how haptics can improve industrial design and manufacturing. Dr. Moore was instrumental in the development of cobots - a novel human-robot collaborative technology. He continues to perform robot design and control research and has secured research funding from NSF, ONR, DOD, ARL and others totaling $8.3 million ($3.2 million as PI). Through these projects Dr. Moore has been able to support and graduate 14 graduate students (including 6 BIPOC students) and publish 36 papers in robotics.

 

YOUNENG TANG, Assistant Professor -  Youneng Tang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.  His research mainly aims at sustainable treatment of water, wastewater, and landfill leachate through biofilm processes.  His recent research interests include a) chemical-additive-free recovery of metals and metalloids, b) beneficial use of water treatment by-products such as methane and ethane, c) synergistic combination of biofilm and other processes, and d) multispecies biofilm modeling.  His recent research is supported by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and private sectors.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

KASSIE ERNST directs the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program and is faculty director for the FSU Engineering Living and Learning Community. Working primarily with undergraduates, Kassie is specifically focused on ensuring students are able to tackle the big challenges that we face this century. Her main research interests focus on systems-level adaptation and resilience planning in urban, energy, and water systems. She also works with scientists, engineers, resource managers, and decision-makers on optimizing science co-production - bringing useful science into decision-making processes, and helping to facilitate the use of that science to make just, effective, and resilient decisions in consideration of climate, environmental, social, and economic changes