#FutureIsUs: My volunteer work with FIU’s largest student tech organization
Name: Samantha J. FernandezHometown: Miami, FloridaWhat is your major? Information TechnologyWhat organization have your partnered with to impact our community? I partnered with Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the largest student organization for technology at...
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Engineering alumna tests autonomous cars in Dubai
Arriving soon at a parking lot near you: self-driving cars. What was once a sci-fi fantasy is now quickly becoming reality. Samaneh Khazraeian Ph.D. ’17, who has a doctorate in transportation engineering from the College of Engineering & Computing, is...
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Grad student works to protect the nation as a cybersecurity warrior
David Gabay has always wanted to serve his country. A cybersecurity warrior at FIU, Gabay is close to realizing his dream. Gabay, who is pursuing his master’s in computer engineering at FIU, is the recipient of the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service, funded by the...
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FIU receives $1M Grant from Department of Energy for Research and Training in Advanced Materials
The FIU Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering is pleased to announce its partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) as an institution selected for their new initiative known as the “Partnership for Research and Education Consortium in Ceramics and...
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Sandhiya Govindarajulu receives Best Student Paper Award at the 2019 iWAT
Sandhiya Reddy Govindarajulu received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2019 International Workshop of Antenna Technology (iWAT) conference for her paper, Range Optimization for DSRC and 5G Millimeter-Wave Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Link. iWAT was held at FIU...
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Pranjal Nautiyal: Shining Graduate Scholar Receives Prestigious Awards
Unlike most young people, when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, Pranjal Nautiyal had an unwavering answer – he wanted to be an engineer. Pranjal was surrounded by engineers all of his life while living in New Delhi, where he was born and raised; his father...
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Graphene Technology to Deice Aircraft
Mr. Tom Donaldson, President, Signet International Holdings, Inc. (OTC: SIGN), the parent company of Signet Graphene Technologies, Inc. (SGT), announced today that the company has executed a contract with Florida International University (FIU) to further the...
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BME graduate student earns well-deserved grant
Sana Nasim recalls meeting Nancy Cavalie at FIU biomedical engineering’s first annual Miami Heart Day Symposium. Little did she know that a short conversation with Miami Heart Research Institute’s Executive Director would steer her last few years as a Ph.D. student in...
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Dr. Iyengar has been awarded the “2019 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) Research Leadership Award
Dr. Iyengar has been awarded the “2019 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) Research Leadership Award” for his contributions for research and education in the area of Distributed Sensor Systems at the forthcoming 2019 IEEE ISI conference. Read more on FIU...
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Trina Fletcher and Alexandra Coso Strong expand engineering education at FIU’s newest school
Most people know engineering is a possible degree to pursue, but have you ever heard of engineering education? The School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) was formed in 2018, in conjunction with the STEM Transformation...
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Students create water purification startup
How do you get your water? You probably have a water fountain nearby and the tap at home or even a water bottle in your hands right now. Now, imagine having to walk many miles carrying gallons of water out of sheer necessity? Unfortunately, for some impoverished...
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My internship as a software engineer at Microsoft
Name: Octavio Avila-Cardet Hometown: Guantanamo, Cuba What is your major? Computer science Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned for Microsoft as a software engineer. I worked in the core services department where internal tools and software that...
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