Jun 8, 2022 | Engineering, Future, Innovation, News, Research, STEM, Worlds Ahead
Listening, learning and wanting to serve, Susan Margulies, head of the National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Engineering, led a discussion at the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) Wednesday about diversity and inclusion in education and research. ...
Jun 1, 2022 | Engineering, Future, Innovation, News, Research, STEM, Worlds Ahead
Lithium is a metal that dominates the battery industry. Lightweight and powerful, lithium-ion batteries are used in laptops, phones, scooters, electric toothbrushes and other consumer electronics. Global lithium mine production nearly quadrupled from 2010 to 2021,...
Jun 1, 2022 | Engineering, Future, Innovation, News, Research, STEM, Worlds Ahead
In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land. These Category 5 winds can shatter a test building in the blink of an eye. Yet the giant fans creating them aren’t powerful enough to keep up with...
Nov 16, 2021 | Community, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Future, Grant, News, School of Electrical, Computer and Enterprise Engineering
From medical devices to cell phones, we have become dependent on batteries and chargers to keep us functioning. Imagine the day, however, when there is no longer a need for transmission lines, charging cords and manually plugging electric vehicles into an outlet....
Nov 5, 2021 | Breaking Barriers, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Future, News, School of Electrical, Computer and Enterprise Engineering, STEM, Student Success, Worlds Ahead
In the future, a “smart” bandage being developed at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing could remotely send real-time information directly to physicians to advise them how well a patient’s chronic wound is healing. That’s the hope of the project’s mastermind,...
Nov 2, 2021 | Breaking Barriers, Engineering, Future, News, Student Success, Worlds Ahead
FIU ranks among the top 20 U.S. public universities in the world for the number of U.S. utility patents produced. FIU was awarded 60 patents in 2020, spanning the fields of engineering, computer information sciences, public health, chemistry, medicine, genetics,...
