FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) announced a new partnership with Girls Who Code – a national non-profit organization that seeks to inspire, educate and equip girls with computing skills for the 21st century; the school will also be continuing...
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and Florida International University (FIU) today announced a new partnership to build a commercial-scale distributed solar power facility that will both generate electricity for FPL’s 4.8 million customers and serve as an...
Mechanical engineering major Jean-Pierre Sorondo was sitting in a computer lab at the Engineering Center when a computer caught his attention. Displayed on the monitor was the design for the framework of a racecar and Sorondo, a sophomore who worked as a...
A 30-story hotel goes up in China in just 15 days, and a fully customized elementary or high school in the U.S. can be ordered “in a box.” These phenomena speak volumes about the future of building. The Construction Americas conference presented by FIU last week at...
“This is not rocket science,” joked mechanical engineering major and rocket enthusiast Giancarlo Lombardi as he passed around a small test rocket to a group of middle schoolers. “All we’re really using is basic algebra and calculus.” Calling two students to the front...
FIU’s annual Panther Alumni Week in February reinforced for students that their years of attending classes can have a wonderful ending: getting the very job for which your degree prepared you. More than 250 alumni in a variety of fields and industries spoke...
