Mar 5, 2020 | Electrical Engineering, Engineering, News, Research, STEM, Student Success
Congratulations to FIU students Briana Gonzalez and Gianfranco Perez-Greco for receiving two awards at the 2020 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM in Washington, DC! Briana received the first place award in the undergraduate poster presentation...
Feb 11, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, News, Staff Achivements, STEM
MIAMI (Feb. 10, 2020) – Florida International University is among the 21 U.S. doctoral institutions that produced the most Fulbright U.S. Scholars in 2019-2020, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced Monday. Six scholars...
Feb 11, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Engineering, Events, Future, K-12 Outreach, News, STEM, Student Success
“What we hope to take away from today is to win!” said Marcos Santa-Cruz, a middle school student from St. Hugh Catholic School. His takeaway came true as his team took first place at South Florida’s Future City Competition, which was hosted by FIU’s College of...
Jan 17, 2020 | Community, Future, K-12 Outreach, News, STEM
Clouds formed at Modesto A. Maidique Campus last week. But it wasn’t mother nature behind it. The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science mixed hot water and liquid nitrogen together to produce the cloud-like effect as part of FIU’s STEM-Weather Day. The FIU...
Jan 14, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Electrical 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...
Nov 20, 2019 | Biomedical Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, News, Research, STEM, Women of CEC, Worlds Ahead
The Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded $6 million to FIU biomedical engineering professor Ranu Jung and her team to expand testing of their pioneering prosthetic hand system – which allows amputees to “feel” again – to military veterans and other amputees. The...
