Research Strengths Include:
- Additive manufacturing
- Analytical Techniques
- Artificial Intelligence
- Biomedical materials
- Computer Vision
- Energy Systems, Sustainability and Power Generation
- High and Low Energy materials processing
- Human Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality
- Materials and Smart Sensors
- Modeling and Simulation
- Prosthetics and Interfaces
- Transportation Engineering and Infrastructure Sustainability
- Water Resources and Quality
Research Centers
- Advanced Materials Processing Analysis Center (AMPAC)
- Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation
- Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research
- Center for Research in Computer Vision
- Coastal Dynamics of Sea Level Rise Research Cluster of Excellence
- Consortium for Applied Acoustoelectronics Technology
- Environmental Systems Engineering Institute
- FEEDER Center, DOE
- Future City Initiative
- Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering
- Interactive Systems & User Experience Research Cluster of Excellence
- Materials Characterization Facility (MCF)
- MIST Center, NSF I/UCRC
- Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES) Cluster
- Stormwater Management Academy
Clustered Research = Big Opportunities
UCF’s clustered research efforts join experts from a variety of disciplines and fields, and provide many benefits, including: a streamlined process; opportunities to partner with renowned researchers, higher national and international visibility; increased funding potential; and an avenue to train the future science and tech workforce with industry-relevant skills.
Research Focus Areas by Department
Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering
- infrastructural sensing and health monitoring
- transportation safety
- smart cities
- water resources and quality
Computer Science
- artificial intelligence and machine learning
- bioinformatics
- computer vision
- cyber security and privacy
- data analytics and data science
- digital forensics
- human-computer interaction and virtual reality
- software engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- antennas and microwaves
- autonomous vehicles, and robotics
- computer systems and architecture
- cyber physical systems (communications, controls and signal processing)
- electromagnetics and optics
- electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection
- energy systems and smart communities
- hardware security
- microelectronics
- microsystems and nanosystems
- smart grid technology (distribution and control)
- smart sensors
Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
- complex adaptive systems and data analytics
- creativity and leadership
- healthcare systems
- human factors and safety
- human systems integration
- innovation-based economic development
- management systems engineering
- modeling and simulation
- network science
- neuroergonomics
- operations research
- optimization and decision analysis
- quality management
- systems engineering
- transportation and logistics
Materials Science and Engineering
- additive manufacturing
- analytical techniques
- bioengineering
- biological materials
- electronic materials
- magnetics
- nanomaterials
- novel materials
- organic and molecular engineering
- polymers and ceramics (structural and bio)
- prosthetics
- reliability and packaging
- semiconductor interconnects
- shape-memory alloys
- structural materials
- theranostics
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- aerodynamics
- bioinspired engineering
- biomaterials and biomanufacturing
- biomechanics, neuroscience, prosthetics and rehabilitation
- biomedical diagnostics and devices
- cardiovascular and biofluids
- cell mechanics
- control and dynamics
- diabetes
- dynamics and control
- electrophysiology
- manufacturing
- materials
- mechanical properties of tissues
- mechanical systems
- propulsion
- structures and materials
- surgical devices and sensors
- systems design and optimization
- thermofluids
- virus maturation and assembly