Mar 16, 2020 | Electrical and Computing Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Future, Innovation, News, Research, RF and Microwave
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...
Mar 5, 2020 | Electrical and Computing Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Innovation, News, RF and Microwave
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,...
Jan 14, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Engineering, Innovation, News, Patents, Research, RF and Microwave, STEM
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has awarded FIU a $4.2 million grant to research vacuum nanoelectronics and generate a new technology called Nanoscale Vacuum Field Effect (VFETs). VFETs will help improve radar signal quality and...
Jul 17, 2019 | Electrical and Computing Engineering, Events, Research, RF and Microwave, Student Success
FIU had the strongest presence ever at the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, an international forum where the world’s leading experts in radio science, antennas and propagation exchange ideas and present the...
Jul 5, 2019 | Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Engineering, Events, Research, RF and Microwave, Student Success
Clothing is embroidered with designs and logos using a sewing machine and threads. Dieff Vital, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral student, is using the same sewing machine and conductive threads to embroider antennas and electronic circuits on regular...
Sep 24, 2018 | Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, News, Research, RF and Microwave
The Transforming Antennas Center (TAC) was recently launched thanks to a $4.8 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The center held a ribbon cutting this month, which was attended by several government leaders, including Congressman...