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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

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