Wall of Wind Challenge Invites Local High School Students

Wall of Wind Challenge Invites Local High School Students

Each year, the WoW Challenge invites local high school students to build scale model structures that test their engineering skills against the WoW – a hurricane research facility at FIU’s Engineering Center with fans capable of generating 150-mph winds and category...

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Spring 2018 IPC Keynote Speaker – Chad Moss

Spring 2018 IPC Keynote Speaker – Chad Moss

Chad Moss is the co-founder and Executive Vice President of family-owned and operated Moss & Associates, one of Florida’s largest private construction management companies, and the President of Moss Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization established to...

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Samuel De La Torre’s First Job Working at FPL

Samuel De La Torre’s First Job Working at FPL

Samuel has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from FIU. Samuel got his first job as a protection and control engineer at Florida Power & Light! Sam loves his job because of the team he works with and how they are able to provide power to so...

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Engineering Students Inspire High Schoolers

Engineering Students Inspire High Schoolers

Andres Archila and Darian Perez accidentally fell into engineering and fell in love with it. This past spring semester, Archila, Perez and more than 90 electrical and computer engineering students presented their senior design projects to local high schoolers, hoping...

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Christones Michel’s Internship at Lockheed Martin

Christones Michel’s Internship at Lockheed Martin

Christones worked on the hardware design for the F-35 Full Mission Simulators (FMS). F-35 Full Mission Simulators are scale-sized simulators for the fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II jet fighter. The simulators are used to train pilots by imitating...

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Longfei Wei’s Internship as a Computational Engineer

Longfei Wei’s Internship as a Computational Engineer

Longfei Wei interned at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) located in Lemont, Illinois. Lemont is a suburb of Chicago. He worked as a computational engineer for the Energy System (ES) Division, which conducts applied research to strengthen the economy, protect the...

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