(ORLANDO) Approximately 3,500 University of Central Florida (UCF) students graduated in December 2006, and Ms. Leila Jammal Nodarse, P.E., founder and President of Nodarse & Associates, Inc. (N&A), was one of the speakers at the December 11th joint commencement ceremony for the Burnett College of Biomedical Sciences, Colleges of Engineering and Computer Science, Optics and
Photonics, and Health and Public Affairs.  Ms. Nodarse is a 1982 UCF graduate, and she has served on the UCF Foundation Board of Directors. Since forming N&A in 1991, she has won the UCF Campus Geotechnical Engineering Services contract on five occasions and has participated in designing the foundations for many of the buildings on campus.  Ms. Nodarse told the graduates in attendance, “ . . . it was my relationship to UCF that would propel my career and the success of my company which now proudly employs 250 technical and professional staff members in nine locations across the state of Florida. Many of our employees are UCF graduates.”

Nodarse & Associates, Inc. provides statewide environmental consulting, geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing and threshold inspection services.  The company is headquartered in Central Florida and has offices in Gainesville, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Miami, Ormond Beach, West Palm Beach, Winter Park, Tallahassee, and Tampa, Florida.