Student innovators work to solve problems at hackathon
Sleeping bags and pillows were strewn around classrooms in PG 6 Tech Station while a few students took a quick nap or ate breakfast as the final day of MangoHacks began. Many were tired, but they were the proud survivors of 36 hours of coding and building. The...
Educational fun takes center stage at 2016 Engineering Expo
More than 1,500 elementary, middle and high school students from around Miami-Dade County had the opportunity to experience engineering first-hand at the 2016 Engineering Expo. Held at FIU’s Engineering Center, the annual event offers FIU engineering students a chance...
Students network with Boeing professionals
After joining the Aerospace Engineering Club, mechanical engineering major Jorge Cisternas realized he wanted a job in the aerospace industry. And recently, Cisternas, now the president of the club, got one step closer to his goal: he visited Boeing Florida Space...
OHL director receives national recognition
More than 25 years of excellence as an educator, researcher and leader at FIU have earned Irtishad Ahmad the 2016 W.A. Klinger Educator Award from the American Institute of Constructors. The AIC, which promotes industry professionalism and ethics, has presented the...
SCIS professor named an IEEE fellow
Shu-Ching Chen, an eminent scholar in FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The honor recognizes his contributions to the fields of multimedia data management and disaster...
Shekhar Bhansali has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Shekhar Bhansali, the Alcatel-Lucent Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. With more than 24 patents, Bhansali is the third faculty member from the college to...
Doctoral candidate’s research on sea level rise helped prepare him for city engineering job
When Carlos Tamayo started sitting in on meetings between FIU and the City of Miami Beach, he had no idea the experience would eventually lead to a career in local government. As a doctoral candidate researching sea level rise, Tamayo was interested in the...
FIU achieves top rank in Carnegie research classification
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced today the newest edition of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. FIU moved into the top category—R1: Doctoral Universities – Highest Research Activity. “We are focused on...
Inaugural ceremony introduces American Nuclear Society student chapter at FIU
In an inaugural ceremony at the FIU Engineering Center’s Panther Pit yesterday, the College of Engineering & Computing introduced a new student chapter of the American Nuclear Society, an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the fields of...
Visit Shakespeare’s London at FIU’s new virtual reality facility
It’s 1598, and you’re on your way to the Globe Theater to watch one of Shakespeare’s plays. You walk along the dirt roads and the green fields of London and you realize you can see the London Bridge in the distance. A vagabond asks you for a coin, and you find the...
FIU competition shines light on middle school innovators
Middle school students with posters and pointers in hand smoothed their blazers and business casual clothes and faced the do-or-die moment: the final team presentation at the Future City regional competition. Some began their presentations by getting “in...
Professors in FIU’s OHL School of Construction mount research effort
Watching live TV coverage of earthquake destruction in Nepal in April 2015 prompted Ali Mostafavi to make three important phone calls. The first two he placed to his fellow-professor in the OHL School of Construction. Initially, he wanted only to inquire about the...