First-gen construction management scholarship recipients see real results
In 2017, Chad Moss—executive vice president of the national construction management company at Moss & Associates—made the largest donation ever from an alumnus to FIU. With a $10 million contribution from the Moss Foundation to the College of Engineering &...
Got my first job! Working as a software engineer at Oracle Cloud
Name: Calvin Mark Hometown: Miami, Florida Degree/major: Bachelor of Science in computer science with a minor in physics Where are you working? Title? Oracle/Oracle Cloud, software engineer How did you get your job? I met a recruiter at the FIU career fair this fall,...
Professor honored with award from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists
Every year, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists (AAEES) honors an individual who demonstrates leadership, originality and has innovative solutions to current environmental challenges. Berrin Tansel, professor of environmental engineering...
FIU scientist wins prestigious national early career investigator award
Researcher and American Heart Association (AHA) Fellow Hooi Hooi Ng has won the AHA's Elaine W. Raines Early Career Investigator Award for her studies on vascular calcifications. Ng's research is a collaboration across FIU's research community. She is a joint...
Biomedical engineering student wins first place at annual conference for Society of Women Engineers
At 7 years old, Allison Martinez pinched the legs of her grandmother, who was confined to a wheelchair, to see if she could get a reaction. Martinez’s grandmother had suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident. At an internet café in Honduras, “I [had] read about...
FIU student awarded 2020 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship
Congratulations to Hasantha Malavipathirana, doctoral student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), for being awarded the 2020 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship. The Cadence Women in...
John L. Volakis and Naphtali Rishe elected to the rank of National Academy of Inventors Fellow
John L. Volakis, dean of the College of Engineering and Computing and professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Naphtali Rishe, professor of the School of Computing and Information Sciences, have been elected to the highly distinguished rank of National...
Newly created engineering degree encourages students to customize program
Patricia Garcia and Naimah Woods are on track to be the first two graduates of the newly-created Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering (IDE) program, housed within the College of Engineering & Computing School of Universal Computing, Construction,...
Volakis, Almirall named 2020 AAAS fellows
Two FIU researchers have been named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). John L. Volakis, dean of FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing and professor of electrical and computer engineering, earned the lifetime distinction for...
FIU engineers awarded patent to process and find computer data more efficiently
Computers handle a lot more than we think. Take, for example, when a coworker sends a zip file via email. To read the documents within the zip file, a computer user has to decompress the file, which takes up memory space and processing time. As more and more data gets...
FIU launches cybersecurity apprenticeship program
Florida International University has received approximately $2 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to launch the Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Program (Cyber-CAP). The program is aimed at giving learners the necessary technical skills, on-the-job training and...
CEC Faculty Fellows Jason Liu and Sharan Ramaswamy are working to enhance diversity and equity
Jason Liu, Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor and Interim Director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences, and Sharan Ramaswamy, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, are two of this year’s Office to Advance Women, Equity & Diversity (AWED)...