Locations and Schedule:
UWF Fort Walton Beach, Building 8, Room 836 (Campus Map)
1170 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547
Thursday, March 21
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
UWF Fort Walton Beach, Building 8, Room 836 (Campus Map)
1170 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547
Thursday, March 28
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
UWF Sea3D Lab
201 E Zaragoza St
Pensacola, FL 32502
Thursday, April 4
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Instructor: Joseph Piacenza PhD, MBA
Dr. Joseph Piacenza earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of South Florida (USF), and completed his MBA at USF with a focus on entrepreneurship and management. While working toward his MBA, Dr. Piacenza founded and managed an automotive-based small business for seven years. After selling the company, he concurrently pursued his M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University focusing on concept-stage robust design for complex infrastructure systems. Additional active research areas include robust optimization, identifying cyber-physical attacks in manufacturing system, sustainable building design, and sea turtle satellite tracking tag design. Dr. Piacenza instructs the mechanical engineering Junior Design course, and is actively involved with hands on and interdisciplinary student design projects. In addition, he is the Faculty advisor for SAE Baja.
Program Description:
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