Trina Fletcher, assistant professor of engineering and computing education at FIU, has been appointed as one of 12 members to the EngineerGirl Steering Committee, a service initiative within the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The National Academy of...
Name: Patricia GarciaHometown: Miami, FLWhat is your major? Mechanical engineeringWhere did you intern? What did you do there? I interned at the University of California Berkeley, where I worked jointly in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Berkeley Sensor...
“Work hard, never give up and respect others” is the motto used by ENLACE students. ENLACE, which stands for Engaging Latino Communities in Education, is a six-week summer camp held at FIU’s College of Engineering & Computing. The program, supported by The...
Name: Guillermo GarridoMajor: Computer EngineeringWhere did you intern? Alpine, an ITW CompanyWhat did you do there? As a software engineering intern, I worked on implementing and unit-testing new licensing features for the company’s computer-aided design...
Thirty-six hours of no sleep, plenty of coffee and a will to do good, that’s the idea behind ShellHacks, the largest hackathon in Florida held at FIU’s Graham Center. The hackathon, a sprint-like event where participants build code, develop apps and design websites,...
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program has awarded a $1 million grant to a team of FIU researchers to evaluate the automation needs of the architecture, engineering and construction industries and develop a training program in...
