For the quarter of a million people who use the Dolphin Expressway every day, the sight is impossible to miss. Gigantic concrete pillars stretch high above the road, making commuters on the already-elevated expressway feel small. A fleet of construction equipment...
Cris Lugo understands the education gap caused by a lack of technology. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the Turks & Caicos Islands, there were no computers in his home. Now he hopes to combine his experience as the first international student ever to...
At a young age, Deidra Hodges was well-positioned to become an engineer. Her parents were educators and her older brothers worked with technology, constantly fixing things around the house. Wanting to be like her siblings, Hodges signed up for her high school’s...
Surrounded by water, South Floridians know the problems that come with climate change, sea-level rise and extreme weather events. Heavy downpours bring flooding, hurricanes force a surge of water onshore and both cause polluted stormwater to run into precious coastal...
FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing researchers have received a $2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help develop technology to prevent, detect, analyze and mitigate cyberattacks against U.S. energy systems. “Our FIU team is very...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a team of researchers, including researchers from FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing, $1 million to continue their work to help thwart cyberattacks ― from computers and mobile devices to large-scale networks....