Jan 28, 2019 | Breaking Barriers, Computer Engineering, Computing and Information Sciences, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Innovation, News, Patents, Research, Women of CEC, Worlds Ahead
FIU has been recognized as an institution with “highest research activity,” or R1 category, since 2015. This classification represents the highest level of research activity for doctorate-granting universities in the U.S. In the new Carnegie review, less than 3... 
Jan 11, 2019 | Biomedical Engineering, Breaking Barriers, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Innovation, News, Patents, Research, Women of CEC, Worlds Ahead
FIU has grown its patent production by 650 percent seemingly overnight. In the years 2014 and 2015, university researchers earned a total of eight patents. In 2016 and 2017, the two-year total catapulted to 60 patents. The university’s rapid
turnaround began five... 
Dec 7, 2018 | Biomedical Engineering, Breaking Barriers, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computing and Information Sciences, Construction, Corporate, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Enterprise Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industry, Innovation, Logistics Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, News, Research, Student Success, Women of CEC
Brian Cuadra is sporting a Microsoft t-shirt and making his way down the aisles at the College of Engineering & Computing’s Senior Design Showcase. It’s easy to mistake him for one of the students, but he’s not. Cuadra is a university recruiter for Microsoft and... 
Nov 7, 2018 | Biomedical Engineering, Breaking Barriers, Engineering, Faculty Achievement, Innovation, News, Patents, Research, Women of CEC, Worlds Ahead
The Neural-enabled Prosthetic Hand System (NEPH) developed at Florida International University by Ranu Jung and her Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory team, restores a sense of touch/grasp force and hand opening by stimulating sensory nerve fibers in the residual limb... 
Sep 11, 2018 | Breaking Barriers, Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, News, Women of CEC
FIU’s Diversity Mentor Professor Initiative is a special program aimed at recruiting multiple excellent STEM faculty with strong research programs to FIU who have a history of and commitment to the mentorship of women and underrepresented minority students in STEM,... 
Aug 8, 2018 | Alumni, Breaking Barriers, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, First Job, Internships, Job Opportunities, News, RF and Microwave, STEM, Student Jobs, Student Success, Women of CEC
Karina Quintana earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in communication systems from FIU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Karina’s first job after graduation was a flight test engineering... 