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Biography

Manoj Chopra, currently serves as the chair of the Faculty Senate. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992. He joined UCF as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1993 and specializes in geotechnical engineering. He also serves as the director of the UCF Deep Foundation Test Site funded by the Department of Transportation. He has received two Teaching Incentive Program awards, the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award, the Excellence in Advising award, and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Professor award three years in a row. For his research activities, he shared the 2001 Excellence in Environmental Engineering award and also received the NASA Gold Quality Award for Continual Improvement for his patented work in innovative groundwater cleanup techniques. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Florida and was the recipient of the 2002 Engineer of the Year award from the Central Florida National Engineers Week committee.