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 28, 2019 | Breaking Barriers, Computer Engineering, Computing and Information Sciences, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Innovation, News, Patents, Research, Women of CEC, Worlds Ahead
FIU has been recognized as an institution with “highest research activity,” or R1 category, since 2015. This classification represents the highest level of research activity for doctorate-granting universities in the U.S. In the new Carnegie review, less than 3... 
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... 
Jan 2, 2019 | Alumni, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, News, Student Jobs, Student Success
Laura Coronado, a recent FIU computer engineering graduate, dreams of someday opening her own engineering business with her siblings. When Coronado was choosing classes for her last semester as an undergrad, she came across an engineering entrepreneurship course that... 
Dec 18, 2018 | Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Industry, Innovation, News, Research
Through a $450,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awarded to FIU, Professor Sakhrat Khizroev, an expert in electrical engineering, computer engineering and physics, is creating an energy-efficient computer using spintronics technology... 
Dec 13, 2018 | Alumni, Computing and Information Sciences, Construction, Engineering, News
The 2018 Torch Awards Gala attracted a record-breaking 1,000 attendees to make it the largest in FIU history. The November event, held at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus, honored 15 alumni and one faculty member who are each making a difference in their professions, in... 