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...
Professor earns NSA’s Best Cybersecurity Paper award
“I promise you, this is not a prank call,” Deborah Frincke, who leads the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Research Directorate, told FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) Professor Geoffrey Smith over the phone. Frincke confirmed to Smith that...
Ultimate Software, FIU prepare students for job market
Source: FIU NEWS Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions in the cloud, and FIU have announced a 10-year extension to their current technology-education partnership. The new commitment will help establish an...
Chevron brings funds, internship opportunities to College of Engineering & Computing
Photo: Representatives of Chevron Corp., Niccole Boswell and Andy Chidalek, at center, were joined during a ceremonial check presentation by, from left, Interim Dean Ranu Jung and students Charlotte Farolan, Shadeh Ferris-Francis and Paola Jiron. The students are...
The future of tech education
FIU’s new $3 million Tech Station at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus is raising the bar for educational institutions, reflecting the kind of creative workspace that promotes learning and a spirit of innovation. The College of Engineering & Computing made the $3...
Dr. Ranu Jung and the Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory partner with the Combat Wounded Veterans Foundation
Swimming in a pool or in the ocean is a popular way for people to spend a summer day, a past time many of us take for granted, but not lower limb amputees who struggle to find prostheses that allow them to efficiently swim in the water. Prosthetists Arlene Gillis and...
2016 Cuba Infrastructure Scholarship Competition
The Cuba Infrastructure Scholarship Competition (CISC) is sponsored by the Cuban-American Association of Civil Engineers (C-AACE, www.c-aace.org) and the Association of Cuban Engineers. It entails that university-level student teams formulate and present a project of...
College reaffirms commitment to diversity in engineering on White House Demo Day
College of Engineering & Computing Interim Dean Ranu Jung joined more than 100 of her colleagues across the country and signed a letter pledging to increase diversity in engineering. Jung made her promise as a signatory of a letter released by the American Society...
Summer program turns teachers into techies
A “summer camp” for local public school teachers had them learning new skills to enhance STEM education in their classrooms. Seventeen middle and high school educators who wanted to boost their knowledge of technology participated in a six-week NSF-funded learning...
SCIS partners with Girls Who Code for summer program
FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) announced a new partnership with Girls Who Code – a national non-profit organization that seeks to inspire, educate and equip girls with computing skills for the 21st century; the school will also be continuing...
FPL and FIU join forces on innovative solar research facility
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and Florida International University (FIU) today announced a new partnership to build a commercial-scale distributed solar power facility that will both generate electricity for FPL’s 4.8 million customers and serve as an innovative research operation.
Engineering alumnus to research heart valves at Harvard Medical School
FIU biomedical engineering alumnus Manuel Salinas ’09, MS ’11, PhD ’14 has joined a team of medical doctors at Harvard Medical School to study the effects of blood flow in the heart.