Immersive summer programs expose local students to future careers
Through the Education Effect's immersive summer programs at FIU, more than 125 students from Little Haiti, Overtown and Liberty City were exposed to careers in STEM, the humanities and law.The Education Effect—an initiative that addresses pressing...
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Got my first job! Working for Boeing as a flight test engineer
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: Rami...
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A computer science major’s positive experience has opened her eyes to a career she hadn’t previously considered.
Name: Carolina Uribe-GosselinHometown: Miami, FLWhat is your major? I am majoring in computer science.Where did you intern?I worked for Tesla as the technical program manager for the Packaging Engineering Team. My job was located at the Tesla Gigafactory...
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National Science Foundation awards FIU $1 million to train policy professionals in cyberinfrastructure
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded FIU a $1 million grant to train policy scientists in cyberinfrastructure to help meet the demand for professionals with an in-depth understanding of the latest technologies.“This is a great collaboration...
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FIU’s HCPS Lab receives Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction
(From left to right: Rodrigo Ramon, Ou Bai, Roozbeh Atri, Masudur Siddiquee, J. Sebastian Marquez, S. M. Shafiul Hasan and Tong Yi)FIU’s Human Cyber-Physical Laboratory (HCPS), housed within the School of Electrical, Computer and Enterprise Engineering,...
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My internship as a software engineer at GoDaddy
Name: Tommy CarrascalHometown: Miami, FloridaWhat is your major? Computer scienceWhere did you intern? What did you do there? I interned as a software engineer at GoDaddy, a web hosting company that has more than 18.8 million customers worldwide. I...
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FIU among the top three universities with the most contributions at the 2019 AP-S/URSI Radio Science Meeting
FIU had the strongest presence ever at the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, an international forum where the world’s leading experts in radio science, antennas and propagation exchange ideas and...
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Jeanine Shraim’s internship with Boeing.
Name: Jeanine ShraimHometown: Sunrise, FLWhat is your major? Mechanical engineeringWhere did you intern? What did you do there?I interned with the Boeing Company in Southern California at the Seal Beach location. I worked on the commercial side of the 787...
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For One Alumnus, Thriving Local Business is a Family Matter
For construction alumnus Andres Betancourt ’10, the buildings and structures we admire and frequent in our everyday lives are breathing monuments of human progress. “How we humans, with a mix of some concrete, steel and reinforced bar, can build such nice...
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My internship at Ford Motor Company
Name: David Garcia Hometown: Hialeah, Florida What is your major? Mechanical Engineering Where did you intern? Ford Motor Company. What did you do there? I worked in Vehicle Engineering with the Mustang Vehicle Integration Team in Dearborn, Michigan. How...
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New engineering degree programs seek to develop the next generation of diverse STEM leaders
Two new degree programs at FIU aim to develop students as leaders in engineering, computing and education, by preparing them to tackle local, national and global challenges.FIU’s School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education...
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Ph.D. student designs wearable antennas for medically underserved communities
Clothing is embroidered with designs and logos using a sewing machine and threads. Dieff Vital, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral student, is using the same sewing machine and conductive threads to embroider antennas and electronic circuits...
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