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...
Spring 2016 IPC Keynote Speaker – Mike Morris
Mike Morris is president of SpectrEcology, a high tech company that manufactures and distributes products and applications for optical sensing technology. Currently, he is working on both the deployment of spectrometers for precision agriculture & aqua-culture,...
Health avatar could become modern version of doctor’s house call
It’s happy hour, and there’s a man, a man with a drinking problem, headed to his favorite bar. He turns into the parking lot, and his phone comes to life. It’s an image of a woman, her voice calm and reassuring. “I noticed you’re headed to the bar,” the woman says,...
Micro Device Fabrication and Materials Analysis: Two Day Training Course
The Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute (AMERI) invites you to attend a two-day training workshop focusing on micro and nano fabrication techniques for devices and analytical techniques for materials and failure analysis.
Dr. Khizroev’s research listed under top 100 Science Stories of Year 2015 by Discover Magazine
The research on wireless brain stimulation by the group of Professor Khizroev at FIU was included in the list of top 100 Science Stories of Year 2015 by Discover Magazine. The top stories were selected from hundreds of thousands of peer-reviewed articles published in...
President and CEO of Innovia to deliver Induction to the Profession keynote address
Co-Founder, President and CEO of Innovia, Leonard Pinchuk, will deliver the Induction to the Profession keynote address for the FIU College of Engineering and Computing. The induction will take place at 3:00 p.m. on December 14 at the Graham Center Ballrooms, Modesto...
FIU bridge expert named as White House Champion of Change
FIU’s Atorod Azizinamini was named a 2015 White House Transportation Champion Change on the same week that legislation was reintroduced to authorize funding of University Transportation Center programs. The White House and the U.S. Department of Transportation...
FIU researchers working on protecting nation’s power grid from cyber attacks
Researchers from FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have teamed up with four other universities and a utility company to help safeguard the nation’s power utilities from cyber attacks. “A cyber attack on any part of the nation’s power grid could leave millions...
White House honors FIU bridge expert as Champion of Change
The White House and the U.S. Department of Transportation will honor Atorod Azizinamini, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University’s College of Engineering and Computing, for his innovations in making the...
Professor Georgakopoulos, three others from college recognized at Faculty Convocation
Four outstanding faculty in the College of Engineering & Computing joined colleagues from throughout FIU to receive well-deserved recognition at the 2015 Faculty Convocation. These individuals have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to students, the university...
NSF Announces Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Experimental Facility Award – Wall of Wind (WOW) Facility at FIU receives $4.1 million NSF Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that it has selected the Wall of Wind (WOW) Facility as one of the nation’s major “Experimental Facilities” under the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) competition NHERI is the next...