When natural disasters like the earthquakes in Nepal or the volcano eruption in Chile occur, one of the most pressing issues hindering rescue efforts is the loss of electricity. A senior design project completed by three students in the College of Engineering may help...
Global citizens make the best construction managers. Just ask Julio Cuenca, a December 2014 graduate of FIU’s OHL School of Construction Management who landed a job before the ink was dry on his diploma. “It was great,” he says of working for the firm, which has...
This Thanksgiving, the College of Engineering and Computing has something to be thankful for — it was able to share a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with the students of the college’s international Dual Degree Program, International Pipeline Graduate Program, and...
Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery constructed a Mandala Sand Painting March 31 through April 3 at FIU’s College of Engineering & Computing. The opening ceremony took place Monday, March 31, at 2 p.m. in the Panther Pit, located on the second...
When developers in Italy wanted to do full-scale testing on how hundreds of trees on terraces of two residential towers in Milan would hold up in winds in excess of 100 miles per hour, they turned to FIU’s Wall of Wind. The Bosco Verticale (vertical forest)...
A group of 36 ambassadors representing nations on five continents visited FIU’s College of Engineering & Computing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, to learn more about research taking place at the International Hurricane Research Center’s Wall of Wind. The visit was part of...
