Name: Naznin Akter Hometown: Barisal, Bangladesh What degree are you working on? I am a doctoral candidate in the College of Engineering and Computing’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), from which I received a master’s degree in electrical...
Name: Juliette Dubon Hometown: Miami Lakes, Florida Degree/major: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Where are you working? Title? I’ve accepted an engineering position at Boeing in the Research and Technology Division within the company’s Space and...
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...
Every year, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists (AAEES) honors an individual who demonstrates leadership, originality and has innovative solutions to current environmental challenges. Berrin Tansel, professor of environmental engineering...
Researcher and American Heart Association (AHA) Fellow Hooi Hooi Ng has won the AHA’s Elaine W. Raines Early Career Investigator Award for her studies on vascular calcifications. Ng’s research is a collaboration across FIU’s research community. She...
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...
