Jan 5, 2021 | Breaking Barriers, Construction Management, Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure and Sustainability, News
In 2017, Chad Moss—executive vice president of the national construction management company at Moss & Associates—made the largest donation ever from an alumnus to FIU. With a $10 million contribution from the Moss Foundation to the College of Engineering &...
Nov 13, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, News, Women of CEC
Jason Liu, Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor and Interim Director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences, and Sharan Ramaswamy, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, are two of this year’s Office to Advance Women, Equity & Diversity (AWED)...
Jun 30, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Computer Engineering, News, SUCCEED, Worlds Ahead
Collins Vaye recalls the answer his 10th-grade physics teacher gave when Vaye asked the class, “What is engineering?” His teacher responded, “engineering is the application of math and science to solve real-world problems.” The term, solve real-world problems, stuck...
Jun 9, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Construction Management, News, Women of CEC
More than 90 percent of those in construction management are male, but FIU is working to change that. When the FIU construction management program began, more than 46 years ago, few, if any, women enrolled in the program or could see themselves working in a...
May 20, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, News, Student Success, Women of CEC
Growing up as a woman interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), Patricia Garcia, a mechanical engineering major in the College of Engineering & Computing, faced the same question that all women on a similar path have to face. Is the...
May 14, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Faculty Achievement, Future, News
Working to improve diversity and inclusion on campus is a tall order, especially when the campus is as large as FIU, with over two thousand instructional employees. A new program is being launched to make sure faculty members have easily identifiable point persons to...
