Student success
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s national competition, Campus RainWorks Challenge, encourages students to design green infrastructure solutions. FIU’s dynamic and driven multi-disciplinary team won first place out of 50 competing schools. Their design for the Biscayne Bay Campus incorporated green infrastructure practices that mimic the natural water cycle. The plan works to collect rainwater during extreme weather events to combat stormwater pollution. The team received a $5,000 student prize and a $5,000 faculty prize.
Ahead of the 2020 Super Bowl LIV, an enterprising FIU collaboration between CARTA, the CEC, FIU police and Miami-Dade Police Department made security planning easier and more efficient. This was accomplished with a detailed 4-by-5-foot 3-D model of the Hard Rock Stadium. The FIU team that made it happen consisted of Project Director Hadi Alhaffar, undergraduate IT software student Samuel Morris, and architecture graduate students Katherin Rendon and Francisco Alduenda.