Florida Space Grant Consortium
Undergraduate Student
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Gustavo Munoz, an undergraduate student in the Department of Cvil and Environmental Engineering, has been informed by the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium that he is the winner of their 2010-11 Master Degree Fellowship Award for $12,000 for 2 years.
The purpose of FSGC award is to provide a prestigious instrument to reward and attract the best and the brightest of US citizens to space-related masters and doctoral studies and careers and to enhance cooperation among FSGC-affiliated university faculty and peers in industry, government and private laboratories.
Munoz will work with Dr. Sungmoon Jung on his research in the area of Structural Health Monitoring. His plan is to eventually earn a doctorate in civil engineering and move into explorative fields either in academics or industry.