NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to FIU Engineering doctoral student

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to FIU Engineering doctoral student

Melissa Venedicto ’22 has her grandmother’s bad knees to partially thank for one of her most recent accomplishments. The first-year Ph.D. student in FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing has been named a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF)...
Interstellar engineering: Student uses NASA-supplied simulated lunar soil to 3D print out-of-this-world housing

Interstellar engineering: Student uses NASA-supplied simulated lunar soil to 3D print out-of-this-world housing

He hopes his work will allow astronauts to create their own habitats while in outer space NASA is working to build a research base on the moon to send the first astronauts to Mars. Along the way, a new industry is coming to life: construction on surfaces beyond Earth....