Cybersecurity tips for remote working
Companies worldwide have instructed employees to work from home in order to practice social distancing and reduce the spread of COVID-19. Packing up an office and installing it at home can be stressful when trying to remain connected to networks, servers and emails...
FIU Insights video: Cybersecurity during a pandemic
In a video conversation, FIU experts discuss cybersecurity at FIU—and around the world—during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more at FIU News.
FIU 3D-printing face shields for healthcare workers at Baptist Health
In response to the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers treating patients during the coronavirus pandemic, Florida International University (FIU) and Baptist Health South Florida are partnering to 3D-print reusable face shields. The first...
Virtual reality project offers 21st-century skills to first-year experience students
FIU’s First-Year Experience course, designed to teach students life skills and prepare them for professional success, is providing learners with a new collaboration opportunity in virtual reality. COMMUNITY is a virtual reality-based experience produced in...
Ph.D. student blazing a trail for female engineers
Armana S. Huq, a doctoral student in civil and transportation engineering at FIU and assistant professor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), knows what it’s like to be a woman in the male-dominated field of engineering. According to the...
Got my first job! Working as an engineering program manager
In this series, grads share their journey to landing that first job out of college. After years of studying and working toward a degree, these Panthers’ hard work paid off. Now they’re paying it forward by letting you know how they did it. Name: Marcos A. Rodriguez...
Dean Volakis Receives 2020 URSI Booker Gold Medal Award
Congratulations to John Volakis, dean of the College of Engineering & Computing, for becoming a URSI Fellow and receiving the 2020 URSI Booker Gold Medal Award for his citation, “Seminal contributions to electromagnetics, including small, ultra-wideband and...
Researchers create new electric vehicle battery
Researchers in the College of Engineering & Computing have strapped themselves into the driver’s seat and entered the fast-evolving world of electric vehicle batteries. Professor Bilal El-Zahab and his team have a patent pending on a high-density lithium model...
Got my first job! Working at Lockheed Martin
In this series, recent grads share their journey to landing that first job out of college. After years of studying and working toward a degree, these Panthers’ hard work paid off. Now they’re paying it forward by letting you know how they did it. Name: Jorge Cisternas...
New grant to fund additional scholarships for minority engineering, computing students
Mariana Ontiveros remembers a time when she wanted to leave Miami to attend college. Now, as a mechanical engineering student in her sophomore year, Ontiveros says coming to FIU has been “one of the best things” to happen to her. Mariana Ontiveros (right) at the 2020...
TAC Researchers Receive Two Awards at the 2020 ERN Conference in STEM
Congratulations to FIU students Briana Gonzalez and Gianfranco Perez-Greco for receiving two awards at the 2020 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM in Washington, DC! Briana received the first place award in the undergraduate poster presentation...
Engineering Professor Receives NSF Career Award for RF Communication Project
We check Instagram and Twitter on our mobile phones, use our car’s GPS system to navigate, and hop onto our coffee shop’s Wi-Fi to stay in touch with the rest of the world. But how often do we think about the way these communication systems work? Elias Alwan,...
