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For the seniors in FIU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, everything they’ve learned in four years culminates with a single project. Working together in teams, they take on projects that test their knowledge, ingenuity, patience and imagination. Finally, on Senior Design Day, the students put on their best suits [...]
FIU took part in the unveiling of the Broadening Participation in STEM Education Act this week on Capitol Hill. College of Engineering and Computing Dean Amir Mirmiran joined bill sponsors Congresswomen Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) and Miami’s own Frederica Wilson, corporate leaders and fellow academics at a press conference and [...]
Lazaro Herrera has been obsessed with robots since junior high. A native of Santa Clara, Cuba who came to the United States when he was 12, Herrera spent his junior high and high school years learning about robots, building robots, and entering them in competitions. Today, when the sophomore computer [...]
WHAT: Florida International University professors, students and administrators are headed to Orlando this week to honor and recruit some of Florida’s brightest high school students at the annual Sunshine State Scholars Program. The state’s top students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and their parents will be courted much like [...]
At one point in his life, after he joined the army to escape a girlfriend who broke his heart, after he left his wife for gambling away their money, after he was kicked out of the military for abusing alcohol, Aaron Alvin Sr. lived in Memphis, homeless and addicted to [...]
Two years ago, architecture professor Marilys Nepomechie and a group of FIU students conceived a home design perfect for South Florida – one that could get all its energy from the sun. Last fall, they traveled to Washington, D.C., and built that house for a world-renowned competition: the 2011 U.S. [...]
FIU will be hosting the 4th Annual NanoScience Technology Symposium, also known as NanoFlorida 2011, from Sept. 30 – Oct. 1 at the College of Engineering and Computing. Organized by the student body of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) with the guidance of conference chairs BME faculty Chen-Zhong Li [...]
After two years of planning and prep work, showtime arrives next week for the 20 teams participating in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar Decathlon 2011. The event runs from Sept. 23-Oct. 2 at the National Mall, West Potomac Park, in Washington, D.C. The contest challenges collegiate teams to design, [...]
A Lego building competition, a flight simulator and a candy structure contest were all part of the 10th annual Engineering Expo at Florida International University on Feb. 25. Approximately 1,200 elementary through high school students from Miami-Dade and Broward counties visited facilities and laboratories such as the Wall of Wind, [...]
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