Gustavo Roig and Carlos Duart honored at FIU’s 13th Annual Torch Awards Gala
FIU’s College of Engineering & Computing was well represented at the 13th Annual Torch Awards Gala on Saturday, March 8. Professor Gustavo Roig was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Award, and FIU alumnus Carlos Duart, president and CEO of Duart Enterprises...
Computer Science Professor to co-direct FIU team to lead insurance industry in solving the wind vs. flood issue
Wind and water can have a devastating impact on property. Yet, as Hurricane Sandy made it clear in 2012, separate insurance systems for wind and flood damage make the task of sorting out the damage caused by a storm a highly cumbersome process. Building on the success...
Engineering Students Build Blender Bike for SOBEWFF
Months of preparation paid off last weekend for about 25 Miami Northwestern Senior High School (MNW) students who had the experience of a lifetime at the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s “Fun and Fit as a Family” event at Jungle Island. As part of The...
Close the Innovation Deficit
http://youtu.be/ZS0Gcsi5820 Close the Innovation Deficit is an effort by leaders of the business, higher education, scientific, and high-tech manufacturing communities who are concerned about cuts and stagnating federal investments in research and higher education at...
Testing the world’s first vertical forest
When developers in Italy wanted to do full-scale testing on how hundreds of trees on terraces of two residential towers in Milan would hold up in winds in excess of 100 miles per hour, they turned to FIU’s Wall of Wind. The Bosco Verticale (vertical forest)...
FIU students to test their own version of RoboCop
MIAMI (Feb. 10, 2014) –- Researchers and students in FIU’s Discovery Lab have developed the initial prototype of a TeleBot -- which combines telepresence and robotics -- to allow disabled police and military personnel to serve as patrol officers. A demonstration of...
Origami techniques lead to newly engineered compact antennas and electronics
Stavros V. Georgakopoulos, assistant professor at FIU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, holding an origami antenna. FIU researchers are using technology and principles derived from the traditional Japanese art of origami to create remarkably compact...
Ambassadors from around the world experience the impact of FIU’s Wall of Wind
A group of 36 ambassadors representing nations on five continents visited FIU’s College of Engineering & Computing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, to learn more about research taking place at the International Hurricane Research Center’s Wall of Wind. The visit was part of...
Magnetic properties in graphene could unlock broad applications from information processing to medicine
In the three years since the Nobel Committee awarded its prize in physics for the discovery of graphene – a new material that many think can change the world due to its unprecedented strength, flexibility and conductivity – researchers have been trying to establish...
Internships propel FIU grad to NASA
At 26, FIU alumnus Rigoberto Roche has reached a level of scientific success that many recent graduates can only imagine. His work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) includes writing complex code for the International Space Station, as well...
Strategic Partnership With ANSYS Provides Valuable Electromagnetic Simulation Tools To Engineering Students
Students in Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Engineering & Computing will be one step ahead of their future employment competition thanks to a new partnership with ANSYS that provides its robust electromagnetics simulation technology in the laboratory and classroom.
FIU Engineering Professor advances retinal implant that could restore sight for the blind
People who went blind as a result of certain diseases or injuries may have renewed hope of seeing again thanks to a retinal implant developed with the help of Florida International University’s W. Kinzy Jones, a professor and researcher in the College of Engineering...