Steven Laux joined UF in January 2017 after a 32-year career as a civil engineer including VP of Jones Edmunds, practicing in the fields of solid waste management system design and infrastructure design for the aerospace industry. He teaches courses in solid waste systems design, containment system design, civil engineering practice and construction engineering design. He works on the Sustainable Materials Management Research Laboratory led by Dr. Timothy Townsend. His research has focused on sustainable materials management, including beneficial reuse, recycling, and municipal solid waste landfill topics. He currently works on landfill leachate treatment lately, including experiments using reverse osmosis and a $13M constructed wetlands treatment system.Based on the transcript provided, here's the video outline with timestamps for the main topics of conversation:OUTLINE:0:00 - Intro1:36 - Journey of waste & landfills8:21 - Public & private waste management16:00 - Modern landfill design19:53 - Leachate collection & treatment26:03 - Deep well injection30:17 - Constructed wetlands40:04 - Waste-to-energy incineration47:58 - Beneficial reuse of ash56:33 - Phosphate gypsum challenges1:03:23 - Recycling process & markets1:16:00 - Climate change considerations1:24:36 - Industry to academia transition1:33:10 - GratefulnessEPISODE LINKS:UF Profile: https://essie.ufl.edu/people/name/steven-laux/Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QxBoNKkAAAAJ&hl=enPODCAST INFO:Spotify Episodes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBXSpotify Creator Profile: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0SOCIAL:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrespulido8/Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Joe Glover became Interim Provost in September 2024, resuming his 15-year career as UF's chief academic officer after a brief period as provost of the University of Arizona.Glover served as UF Provost from 2008 to 2023. Prior to that appointment, his academic leadership positions at UF included interim provost, associate provost for academic affairs, and interim dean and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Having arrived at UF in 1982 as an assistant professor in mathematics, he served as chair of the mathematics department from 1993 to 1998.OUTLINE:0:00 - Intro1:06 - Role of the provost3:32 - Rankings and performance metrics11:16 - Budget, tuition22:49 - UF’s mission and global talent28:59 - Who should go to college37:50 - Purpose of college in an AI era43:13 - Scholarship vs activism in DEI47:39 - GratefulnessEPISODE LINKS:UF Profile: https://aa.ufl.edu/about-the-office/leadership/dr-joseph-glover/Achievements: https://news.ufl.edu/2023/07/joe-glover-leaves-legacy-of-progress-at-uf/PODCAST INFO:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBXAnchor Website: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0SOCIAL:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrespulido8/Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Aladdin Alwisy, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Rinker School of Construction Management and the director of the Smart Industrialized Design and Construction (IDC) lab at the University of Florida. Dr. Alwaisy’s research interests lie in developing and assessing practices for the future of intelligent industrialized construction, such as robotics, sensing technologies, machine learning, augmented/virtual/mixed reality, simulation, and lean manufacturing to reduce the expense of the design, manufacturing process, and system control.

OUTLINE:0:00 - intro0:46 - Industrialized construction (IC)5:01 - Metrics for IC12:37 - Why increase "made in America" products?19:02 - Construction robotics compared to manufacturing robotics39:37 - Framing with an intelligent robotics arm 56:45 - Academic research and industry applications gap1:05:23 - Impact of advances in fundamental robotics in construction1:12:44 - Human robot collaboration

EPISODE LINKS:Dr. Alwisy's profile: https://dcp.ufl.edu/faculties/aladdin-alwisy/

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/smart-idc-lab/home

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