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Professor SA Sherif received the 2026 ASME Dedicated Service Award at the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Awards Luncheon held on July 28, 2026, in Bellevue, Washington, where three collocated conferences were held; the Summer Heat Transfer Conference, the Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, and the 20th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. The collocated conferences took […]

Dr. S.A. Sherif, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and MAE Excellence Term Professor, received the 2026 IAHE Rudolph A. Erren Award for leadership in the thermochemical area of hydrogen production, as well as hydrogen transmission, distribution, and storage. The award was bestowed on Sherif by the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) at the […]

Dr. SA Sherif gave a special lecture at the 2026 AIAA Aviation Forum held in San Diego June 8-12, 2026. The lecture covered on-going research on aircraft icing at the University of Florida. This included investigating the role of atmospheric turbulence on cloud droplet distribution and droplet impaction on aircraft wings, developing new models for […]

Many of us remember a mentor whose influence stayed with us long after the lessons ended. Someone whose guidance continues to shape how we think, work and lead. For many doctoral students in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida, SA Sherif, Ph.D., has been that steady voice throughout their […]

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. SA Sherif for publishing in the March 2026 issue of the ASME Mechanical Engineering magazine! In a collaboration with the Australia Sustainable Energy Initiative Ltd., Sherif and his team at the Center for Defect Engineering of Energy Materials (CDEEM) have transformed surface defects into assets. By engineering specific surface flaws into […]

Professor SA Sherif has been selected among five professors university-wide to receive the 2025-2026 Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award. The University of Florida Graduate School’s yearly Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award (FDMA) spotlights outstanding, innovative, and effective mentoring of doctoral and Master of Fine Arts student through their final dissertation or fine arts thesis project. This award gives $3,000 to […]

On July 9, 2025, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) bestowed the 2025 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award on Professor Sherif. This took place at the 2025 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference held in Denver, Colorado, July 8-10, 2025.

A 32-year MAE veteran, Professor SA Sherif stays at the cutting edge of thermal, fluid, and energy sciences January 3, 2024 in Faculty Highlights, Highlights, News & Media The proudest moment of Dr. SA Sherif’s career came in 2001. After receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Alexandria University in Egypt, coming to the United […]

August 2, 2006 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When hurricanes, wars or other emergencies force authorities to respond, three essentials top their list of must-haves: water, electricity and refrigeration. Now, in a project funded by the U.S. Army, two University of Florida engineers have designed, built and successfully tested a combined power-refrigeration system that can provide all […]