FIU is Producing Patents Like Never Before

FIU is Producing Patents Like Never Before

FIU has grown its patent production by 650 percent seemingly overnight. In the years 2014 and 2015, university researchers earned a total of eight patents. In 2016 and 2017, the two-year total catapulted to 60 patents. The university’s rapid
turnaround began five...

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FIU Engineers Become Entrepreneurs

FIU Engineers Become Entrepreneurs

Laura Coronado, a recent FIU computer engineering graduate, dreams of someday opening her own engineering business with her siblings. When Coronado was choosing classes for her last semester as an undergrad, she came across an engineering entrepreneurship course that taught her that consumers are the key to the next big invention.

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Professor Sakhrat Khizroev Receives 450K Grant from the Air Force

Professor Sakhrat Khizroev Receives 450K Grant from the Air Force

Through a $450,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awarded to FIU, Professor Sakhrat Khizroev, an expert in electrical engineering, computer engineering and physics, is creating an energy-efficient computer using spintronics technology to create extremely fast computers.

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Chenzhong Li  Named AIMBE Biological Engineering Fellow

Chenzhong Li Named AIMBE Biological Engineering Fellow

Chenzhong Li has been elected to be a Fellow of the America Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). The competition is fierce -less than 2% of the world’s biomedical engineers are elected- and election process includes academics and industry leadership around the world.

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Announcing 2018 AAAS Fellow – FIU’s Shekhar Bhansali

Announcing 2018 AAAS Fellow – FIU’s Shekhar Bhansali

AAAS has named Shekhar Bhansali, Alcatel-Lucent professor and chair of FIU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a fellow of AAAS for his significant contributions to microfluidics, care sensors and wearable sensors, and to the enhancement of underrepresented minority college students.

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DOE fellowship connects student to her family’s past

DOE fellowship connects student to her family’s past

In 1952, a young Italian couple set voyage to Argentina in a cramped ship to flee the devastation of World War II. Sixty-four years later, Silvina Di Pietro is working on a project to remediate problems caused by the very same war her grandparents fled.

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