FIU Engineering receives $22.9 million from U.S. Army to advance research on high performance additive manufacturing technologies

FIU Engineering receives $22.9 million from U.S. Army to advance research on high performance additive manufacturing technologies

Florida International University (FIU) has received a five-year, $22.9 million grant from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory to advance additive manufacturing technologies that aid in the repair, design and durability of...
Prestigious NSF grant awarded to FIU engineering professor for ‘smart’ bandages

Prestigious NSF grant awarded to FIU engineering professor for ‘smart’ bandages

In the future, a “smart” bandage being developed at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing could remotely send real-time information directly to physicians to advise them how well a patient’s chronic wound is healing. That’s the hope of the project’s mastermind,...
Construction trades program helps underserved members of the community thrive in the workforce

Construction trades program helps underserved members of the community thrive in the workforce

Leodanys Collazo had reached a dead end, personally and professionally. A suggestion from his wife and avid supporter to look into an FIU program changed everything, opening a career path that landed him a lucrative job in construction safety management. Collazo is a...
Biomedical engineering professor receives $2.6M NIH grant to research brain disorders

Biomedical engineering professor receives $2.6M NIH grant to research brain disorders

Nikolaos Tsoukias — who is an associate professor at the College of Engineering and Computing in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) — has been awarded a five-year, $2.6 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research microvascular...