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...
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...
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...
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...
Rene Formoso graduated from FIU with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2004 and has since worked at NASA. He has grown immensely there and now works as a project manager for the Mars Carbon Dioxide Collection Subsystem. NASA is working on creating...
Brian Cuadra is sporting a Microsoft t-shirt and making his way down the aisles at the College of Engineering & Computing’s Senior Design Showcase. It’s easy to mistake him for one of the students, but he’s not. Cuadra is a university recruiter for Microsoft and...