The Wall of Wind can blow away buildings at Category 5 hurricane strength to help engineers design safer homes – but even that isn’t powerful enough

The Wall of Wind can blow away buildings at Category 5 hurricane strength to help engineers design safer homes – but even that isn’t powerful enough

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...
Prestigious NSF grant awarded to FIU engineering professor for ‘smart’ bandages

Prestigious NSF grant awarded to FIU engineering professor for ‘smart’ bandages

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,...
FIU receives $3M Department of Energy grant to train next-generation workforce in power, energy and cybersecurity

FIU receives $3M Department of Energy grant to train next-generation workforce in power, energy and cybersecurity

Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Engineering and Computing has received a $3 million U.S. Department of Energy three-year grant to lead an initiative to prepare minority students for careers with national security entities. The grant from the...