Using a unique FIU Business-built blockchain, a multi-disciplinary team of FIU students captured first place in the Association for Information System’s national 2020 AIS Student Chapter Blockchain Challenge. The national first-place victory, announced March 28, is a...
In response to the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers treating patients during the coronavirus pandemic, Florida International University (FIU) and Baptist Health South Florida are partnering to 3D-print reusable face shields. The first...
FIU’s First-Year Experience course, designed to teach students life skills and prepare them for professional success, is providing learners with a new collaboration opportunity in virtual reality. COMMUNITY is a virtual reality-based experience produced in...
Congratulations to John Volakis, dean of the College of Engineering & Computing, for becoming a URSI Fellow and receiving the 2020 URSI Booker Gold Medal Award for his citation, “Seminal contributions to electromagnetics, including small, ultra-wideband and...
Researchers in the College of Engineering & Computing have strapped themselves into the driver’s seat and entered the fast-evolving world of electric vehicle batteries. Professor Bilal El-Zahab and his team have a patent pending on a high-density lithium model...
We check Instagram and Twitter on our mobile phones, use our car’s GPS system to navigate, and hop onto our coffee shop’s Wi-Fi to stay in touch with the rest of the world. But how often do we think about the way these communication systems work? Elias Alwan,...