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...
Name: Octavio Avila-Cardet Hometown: Guantanamo, Cuba What is your major? Computer science Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned for Microsoft as a software engineer. I worked in the core services department where internal tools and software that...
Name: Aparajita Singh Hometown: I was born in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. I was raised in various cities in India and the United States. Degree/major: I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics and another master’s in microelectronics in India. I...
Name: Giuliana Avogadro Hometown: Mendoza, Argentina What is your major? B.S., Computer Science Where did you intern? Microsoft in Bellevue, Washington What did you do there? The internship I applied for was the “Explore Internship,” which is a summer program...
Laura Coronado, a recent FIU computer engineering graduate, dreams of someday opening her own engineering business with her siblings. When Coronado was choosing classes for her last semester as an undergrad, she came across an engineering entrepreneurship course that...
Rene Formoso graduated from FIU with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2004 and has since worked at NASA. He has grown immensely there and now works as a project manager for the Mars Carbon Dioxide Collection Subsystem. NASA is working on creating...