FIU Ph.D. Student Lamar Burton Represents FIU at Maize Genetics Conference
Lamar Burton received the MaGNET award. The MaGNET (Maize Genetics Network Enhancement via Travel) award provides funding to cover costs for the conference registration, meals during the conference, housing and travel to and from the conference. The award is sponsored...
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...
FIU Alumnus Jason Dettbarn Finds StartUP FIU is What His Company Addigy Needed
FIU alumnus Jason Dettbarn (B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, 2000 and 2003 respectively), had been having mild success with Addigy, a company he founded in 2014, offering cloud-based IT management platform specifically for managing apple Mac Computers. While more...
FIU Alumnus Jose Maldonado Leverages Virtual Reality to Improve Physical Therapy
Jose Maldonado, an FIU alumnus with a B.S. in Computer Science (2017), is one of those guys you hear about, the kind of brilliant innovator who decides a new virtual reality headset is too expensive to buy so he makes his own and then has a blast creating his own...
FIU Alumnus Ahmed Elsayed gets First Job Working at Boeing
Ahmed Elsayed received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within FIU’s College of Engineering & Computing. He got his first job working for Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
College of Engineering & Computing’s first-ever Senior Design Project Showcase
The event, held at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center, brought together more than 500 engineering seniors to show their problem-solving skills. In order to graduate, COE students break into teams, identify a problem in their discipline and come up with a solution that...
FIU is awarded $4.8 million by Air Force to establish a center for origami antennas
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded FIU a $4.8 million grant to launch the Center for Physically Reconfigurable and Deployable Multifunctional Antennas. The center will be led and directed by researcher Stavros Georgakopoulos, associate professor...