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...
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...
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...
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...