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...
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,...
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...
Rossana Zotti always had her eyes set on becoming a doctor, but she changed gears to focus her undergraduate studies on mechanical engineering to give her an edge as a physician. Medicine has been a constant in Zotti’s life. While pregnant with her in Paraguay,...
The event, held at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center, brought together more than 500 engineering seniors to show their problem-solving skills. In order to graduate, COE students break into teams, identify a problem in their discipline and come up with a solution that...
Daniella Bernal, a Worlds Ahead grad, became an FIU student at just 16 years old and set her sights on a job that brought man to space. Today, she works on the Falcon 9 for SpaceX. Check out the videos below:
