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...
Fewer than half of all high school students in Florida who take the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam pass the test. For Florida’s African American students, that number is even smaller. In 2013, 83 African American students took the exam; sixteen passed — only...
Global citizens make the best construction managers. Just ask Julio Cuenca, a December 2014 graduate of FIU’s OHL School of Construction Management who landed a job before the ink was dry on his diploma. “It was great,” he says of working for the firm, which has...
A new construction exposition called Construction Americas is scheduled for March 26-27, 2015, in Miami. Sponsored by the Florida International University OHL School of Construction, the exposition will include a reception, panel discussions, and exhibition of...
Booker T. Washington Senior High School sophomore Victor Fleary could not take his eyes off the sleek Formula One racecar built by students in the College of Engineering and Computing at FIU. When he got a chance to slide into the cockpit and fiddle with the controls,...
As part of a partnership with FIU, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) donates an electric vehicle to the College of Engineering & Computing. Electrical and computer engineering students in the Energy Power & Sustainability (EPS) Lab will use the electric...