Feb 18, 2019 | Biomedical Engineering, Research, Student Success
Biomedical engineering doctoral student Zahra Nafar has always had a drive to see the world. While following her passion for traveling, she discovered another love, ophthalmology.“I basically travel to see different natural scenes. And, I love painting. I mostly paint...
Feb 12, 2019 | Biomedical Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Innovation, News, Research, Worlds Ahead
FIU professor of biomedical engineering Shuliang Jiao, whose research and technological innovations are helping prevent and cure blindness, has been named to the inaugural class of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Members. Read more at FIU...
Jan 11, 2019 | Biomedical Engineering, Breaking Barriers, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Innovation, News, Patents, Research, Women of CEC, Worlds Ahead
FIU has grown its patent production by 650 percent seemingly overnight. In the years 2014 and 2015, university researchers earned a total of eight patents. In 2016 and 2017, the two-year total catapulted to 60 patents. The university’s rapid
turnaround began five...
Dec 7, 2018 | Biomedical Engineering, Breaking Barriers, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computing and Information Sciences, Construction, Corporate, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Enterprise Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industry, Innovation, Logistics Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, News, Research, Student Success, Women of CEC
Brian Cuadra is sporting a Microsoft t-shirt and making his way down the aisles at the College of Engineering & Computing’s Senior Design Showcase. It’s easy to mistake him for one of the students, but he’s not. Cuadra is a university recruiter for Microsoft and...
Dec 5, 2018 | Biomedical Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Fellows, News, Research
Chenzhong Li has been elected to be a Fellow of the America Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). The competition is fierce -less than 2% of the world’s biomedical engineers are elected- and election process includes academics and industry...
Nov 7, 2018 | Biomedical Engineering, Breaking Barriers, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Innovation, News, Patents, Research, Women of CEC, Worlds Ahead
The Neural-enabled Prosthetic Hand System (NEPH) developed at Florida International University by Ranu Jung and her Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory team, restores a sense of touch/grasp force and hand opening by stimulating sensory nerve fibers in the residual limb...