The All New Bachelor of Science in Internet of Things
The internet of things is changing the way we work, live and play. By 2020, there will be over 20 billion IoT devices, more commonly known as smart devices. FIU is the first in the nation to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in the internet of things. Watch the video...
Krista Shuckerow gets First Job at Google
Krista Shuckerow interviewed with a few companies, including Microsoft, Capital One and Google. In the end, after talking about it with her trusted peers, friends and family, she decided to accept the offer from Google. She graduates at the end this semester in May...
Gabriela Duran has been awarded a scholarship from the Zonta Women’s Club
Congratulations to mechanical engineering student, Gabriela Gutierrez Duran, who was awarded a scholarship from the Zonta Women’s Club. This is the second year in a row that the club awards a scholarship to one of our students. As this year’s winner, Gabriela is now...
Manuel Losada’s Internship at Rockwell Collins
Manuel worked as a systems engineer for the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) Department. As a systems engineer, he mainly interfaced between the technicians who brought my design to life and the customer (government) who required information such...
Future Cities for Senior Citizens as Envisioned by Emerging Engineers
Imagine a grandmother waiting for her daughter to get out of work to bring her prescription drugs because there is no effective public transportation and driving herself is not an option. Or a senior citizen feeling lonely for days at a time because they live far away...
2018 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award for Ram Iyegnar
Dr. S. S. Iyengar, director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences, has been selected by the Engineers Council Honors and Awards Committee, representing engineering societies from across the United States, to receive the "Distinguished Engineering...
Youngsters from Local Schools Visit FIU on Education Day
What happens when you pack 2,000 elementary and middle school students into the Ocean Bank Convocation Center for an FIU women’s basketball game? You get noise. A lot of noise. The students cheered on the Panthers to a 57-54 victory against Louisiana Tech on Jan. 18....
Graduate Program Retreat 2018
Come join us at our Graduate Program Retreat on February 1,2018. RSVP - click here Download the Agenda - click here Who should attend? Junior and Senior students Those interested in shaping tomorrow's technologies What to Expect? Overview of the college Funding and...
Alexand Gibson’s Internship at Northrop Grumman Aerospace
Alexand Gibson interned with the System Integration Test & Evaluation (SIT&E) team at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Space Park, Redondo Beach, California. Space Park is a historic location for space technology where rocket engines, lasers and advanced...
FIU Engineering Student Lands an Internship at MIT
This past summer, Manuel Garcia, an FIU engineering student, got the opportunity of a lifetime. He always dreamed of going to MIT so when a friend told him about a summer internship program, he applied. Out of 600 students who applied, 36 were accepted. Garcia was...
EPS group researchers win two best paper awards
Three researchers from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering were recently presented with a Best Symposium Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Resilience Week in Wilmington, Delaware. Read more in ECE news....
Survived cancer, now off to grad school
Imagine being more than halfway through college and then getting diagnosed with cancer. Alexander Alvarez didn’t have to imagine it; he lived it. This past weekend, Alvarez graduated from FIU with a bachelor’s in civil engineering, but the journey here was anything...