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FAMU Students Win the 2009 Ford HBCU Business Classic Competition

TALLAHASSEE, FL - Florida A&M University (FAMU) students Emerson Naylor, School of Business and Industry (SBI), and Evan Anderson, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, won the 2009 Ford HBCU Business Classic Competition. As the grand prize winner, the student team won $35,000 in personal scholarships and $15,000 for FAMU.

"This is truly a great win given that Dr. Colin Benjamin, the team's ... full story »»

FSU Electrical Powered Car Takes Laps At Daytona International Speedway

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Students from the High Performance Material Institute of Florida State University and school president T.K. Wetherell took laps around historic Daytona International Speedway on Monday in an all-black, electrical-powered composite car.

The students, led by principal designer Alvin Lim, designed and built the car in four months. Taking la ... full story »»

Florida State Has Its First Udall Scholarship Winner

Over the past year, Florida State University students have been the recipients of numerous prestigious awards, including Rhodes, Truman and Goldwater scholarships. Now the Morris K. Udall Scholarship can be added to that impressive list of student accomplishments.

Ashley Danley, a junior from Cape Coral, Fla., who is double-majoring in environmental engineering and civil engineering, this month became the first F ... full story »»

Strong Winds Hit Engineering School

The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering was host to a squall line of severe thunderstorms that ripped through the campus early evening. Paul Duval, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service on FSU campus said they currently think the college experienced straight-line winds gusts of up to possibly 75mph. They do not think a tornado touched down at this time but are still planning to check out the damage that is done to furt ... full story »»

Humanitarian of the Year Award

Congratulations to Catherine Carella, an FSU Humanitarian of the Year Recipient, for her community outreach activities during her time with FSU and the College of Engineering. In Summer 2008, Ms. Carella, along with fellow students and faculty from the local chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering made a journey to San Rafael, Peru and hel ... full story »»

FES "Engineers in Education" Award

The Big Bend Chapter of the Florida Engineering Society presented Dr. Michelle Rambo-Roddenberry with the 'Engineers in Education' Award at the annual Engineers Week Banquet on Feb. 20, 2009. This inaugural award is given to outstanding Engineers in the Education field. For the past three years Dr. Rambo-Roddenberry, Assistant Professor at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, has led the "Pre-Senior Design ... full story »»

NCEES Engineering Award

NCEES is pleased to announce that the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Florida A&M University-Florida State University is the grand prize winner of the 2009 NCEES Engineering Award for Connecting Professional Practice and Education. The award jury met March 12, 2009, in Clemson, S.C., to select the $25,000 grand prize winner.

The department received the prize for its  ... full story »»

Awards & Grants

CRC awards First Year Assistant Professor grants

Jingjiao Guan, Chemical & Biomedical Engineering,
"Large Scale Manufacturing of Nanowire Structures"

Sungmoon Jung, Civil & Environmental Engineering,
"Innovative Visualization and Assessment of the Nation's Aging Infrastructure"

Arda Vanli, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering,
"Robust Design and Control of Nanomanufacturing Processes"

Michael Watts, Civil & Environmental Enginee ... full story »»

NanoCORE: Undergraduate Research Opportunities

The NanoCORE (Nanotechnology Concepts, Opportunities, Research and Education) at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is a new NSF funded program designed to integrate concepts in nanoscale science and engineering into the traditional undergraduate engineering curriculum. The program will impact all students at the College of Engineering through nanotechnology related modules in existing core courses as well ... full story »»

State-of-the-art Materials Research Building Opens Its Doors

The Florida State University has ushered in a new era for the development of composite materials that promise a wide variety of commercial and industrial uses.

Florida State President T.K. Wetherell officially opened the university's new, 45,000-square-foot Materials Research Building during a ceremony on Florida State's Southwest Campus in Tallahassee. With the opening of the building, The Flori ... full story »»

CUTTING THE LEAD IN SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH

Solar energy technology makes use of the sun's rays to provide other forms of energy, including electricity and heat, for household, industrial, and other applications.

In recent times of rising energy costs and depletion of fossil fuels, federal, state, and local agencies have placed an increased priority on the need to revitalize the nation's economy while finding clean and renewable domestic sources of ... full story »»

ASME visits Northrop Grumman Ship Building

Recently the FAMU-FSU Student Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) visited Northrop Grumman Ship building in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Just under thirty students attended. The sophomore, junior and senior ME students arrived at the College of Engineering just before dawn for the five hour bus ride to the facility.

Northrop Grumman is a mega-corporation comprised o ... full story »»

Engineering Professors Honored by Top Professional Institutes

One is a former astronaut who champions the teaching of science to young people. The other is a pioneering researcher looking for ways to improve the safety and reliability of the nation's power systems. Both are members of the faculty at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering -- and now both have received major recognition for their work.

Norman Thagard, a professor  ... full story »»

Florida State Announces $6.5 Million in Energy Research Grants

The Institute for Energy Systems, Economics and Sustainability, a research and policy group established earlier this year at The Florida State University to address sustainability and alternative power issues, today announced $6.5 million in grant awards for research in the areas of fuel cycles, governance and energy delivery systems.