Jun 17, 2020 | News, Student Success, SUCCEED
The Center for Diversity and Student Success in Engineering and Computing (CD-SSEC) launched its inaugural student research cohort this spring with 12 students from six different majors and eight faculty mentors. The mission of OURS (Opportunities for Undergraduate... 
May 21, 2020 | Mechanical Engineering, News, Student Success
There is a lot that FIU students can accomplish while earning their degrees remotely. In fact, several of them just became officers in the U.S. Army. On May 8, 18 recent university graduates who received military leadership training at FIU were inducted into the Army... 
May 20, 2020 | Breaking Barriers, Mechanical Engineering, News, Student Success, Women of CEC
Growing up as a woman interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), Patricia Garcia, a mechanical engineering major in the College of Engineering & Computing, faced the same question that all women on a similar path have to face. Is the... 
May 19, 2020 | Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Innovation, News, Student Success
FIU students earned first place out of 50 teams in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s eighth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge. The competition encourages students from across the country to submit green infrastructure designs and solutions to help address... 
May 15, 2020 | Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, News, Student Success
A multi-disciplinary team of FIU students came together to design a solar photovoltaic, the conversion of light into electricity, and storage system to maximize energy savings for 20 years as part of a new competition by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National... 
May 15, 2020 | Community, Coronavirus, Innovation, News, Student Success
While hundreds of South Florida nurses, doctors, and essential workers risk their lives to help on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, students who are at home and quarantined are wondering: What can I do from where I am? While FIU continues to aid the community... 