Outstanding Ph.D. Degree Graduate Mustafa Farhadi knew he’d grow up to be an engineer. As a kid in Ghaemshahr – a city in northern Iran – he toyed with electrical devices in his home, and family members always asked him for help when something broke. He came to FIU’s...
Sleeping bags and pillows were strewn around classrooms in PG 6 Tech Station while a few students took a quick nap or ate breakfast as the final day of MangoHacks began. Many were tired, but they were the proud survivors of 36 hours of coding and building. The...
Shekhar Bhansali, the Alcatel-Lucent Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. With more than 24 patents, Bhansali is the third faculty member from the college to...
The annual Outstanding Student Life Awards, held on Thursday, April 2, unapologetically recognized the exceptional efforts of three student organizations and 21 student leaders. These individuals have demonstrated unwavering commitment and dedication toward...
In January 2014, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering announced that a National Science Foundation grant would be supporting a collaborative research effort between FIU researcher Stavros Georgakopoulos and Georgia Tech University to work on the...
If you teach, taught or parent a student, you know that it can be a challenge to keep students actively engaged in learning. But John Escobar, a parent who was teaching robotics and technology in an after school club at David Lawrence Jr K-8 Center, found a creative...