The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program has awarded a $1 million grant to a team of FIU researchers to evaluate the automation needs of the architecture, engineering and construction industries and develop a training program in...
At one point in time, Grace Uddin felt intimidated by men in the construction field because she assumed they knew exactly what they were doing and she didn’t. Learning how to read plans and specifications was not part of the curriculum when Uddin attended college....
Through the Education Effect’s immersive summer programs at FIU, more than 125 students from Little Haiti, Overtown and Liberty City were exposed to careers in STEM, the humanities and law.The Education Effect—an initiative that addresses pressing educational...
For construction alumnus Andres Betancourt ’10, the buildings and structures we admire and frequent in our everyday lives are breathing monuments of human progress. “How we humans, with a mix of some concrete, steel and reinforced bar, can build such nice structures...
For Devan Blackman, FIU’s Engineering Center has come to feel like a second home.There’s a 5-foot-by-5-foot wooden “house” there that she and her classmates built and wired for electricity with their bare hands – something she’d never envisioned herself doing up until...
The nine graduates of the FIU College of Engineering & Computing were recognized at the Spring 2019 commencement ceremony. Women are successfully entering into the engineering and computer science fields and breaking barriers. Take a look at some of your peers...
