Two faculty members from the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, Curtis Taylor, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Hamed Dalir, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors, the organization announced today.
They are part of the 230 emerging academic inventors identified by NAI member institutions and welcomed to the 2026 class of senior members. This year’s class of senior members is the largest to date and comes from 82 National Academy of Inventors member institutions across the nation.
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