Jan 6, 2021 | Biomedical Engineering, News, School of Biomedical, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Student Success, Women of CEC
Name: Melissa Venedicto Hometown: Miami, Florida What is your major? My major is biomedical engineering, and I am pursing a minor in physics. Where did you intern? What was your role there? My internship was with the NASA MIRO CRE2DO Center at FIU, under the...
Dec 11, 2020 | Biomedical Engineering, News, School of Biomedical, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Student Success, Women of CEC
At 7 years old, Allison Martinez pinched the legs of her grandmother, who was confined to a wheelchair, to see if she could get a reaction. Martinez’s grandmother had suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident. At an internet café in Honduras, “I [had] read about...
Dec 11, 2020 | Electrical and Computing Engineering, News, School of Electrical, Computer and Enterprise Engineering, Student Success, Women of CEC
Congratulations to Hasantha Malavipathirana, doctoral student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), for being awarded the 2020 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship. The Cadence Women in...
Nov 5, 2020 | Computing and Information Sciences, Innovation, News, Student Success
Eric Azcona, an undergraduate information technology student at FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), is proving that you can pursue your career and study at the same time. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Azcona immigrated to the...
Oct 20, 2020 | Internships, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, News, School of Biomedical, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Student Success, Women of CEC
Name: Sasha Omadally Hometown: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago What is your major? Mechanical Engineering Where did you intern? What was your role there? I was a product development engineering intern at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) this past summer. How did you...
Sep 24, 2020 | Biomedical Engineering, Fellows, News, School of Biomedical, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Student Success
Two students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering recently won a National Institutes of Health F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award – Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. Valentina Dargam...
