Graduate Student Spotlight

  • Tarra M. Beach

    Tarra M. Beach

    Spring 2013

    Tarra M. Beach is a fourth-year graduate student at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU, Tallahassee, FL). She is pursuing her PhD in civil engineering with an emphasis in environmental engineering.

  • Shantanu Joshi

    Shantanu Joshi

    Spring 2011

    Enabling a computer to "see" requires numerous steps-capturing the information in the form of images, processing it for suitable representation, analyzing constituent parts of the image, understanding the individual parts as well as their interrelationships, and...

  • Student Engineers to Represent Florida in Solar Decathlon 2011

    Student Engineers to Represent Florida in Solar Decathlon 2011

    Spring 2011

    Students at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering are helping design a sustainable, cost effective house to be judged and showcased at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 in the fall. FSU is one of four universities that comprise Team Florida, a...

  • Shari Briggs

    Shari Briggs

    Spring 2011

    Florida A&M has another student to add to its long list of achievers. Shari M. Briggs, a FAMU-FSU mechanical engineering master's cooperative student, won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 20th Undergraduate Research Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the Ana G...

  • Angelo Karavolos

    Angelo Karavolos

    Fall 2010

    A Florida State University doctoral student is the recipient of a prestigious fellowship designed to reward and attract the best and the brightest minds in science and engineering to space-related careers.

Check out what our grad students and post-doctoral researchers are doing in research labs, centers and institutes, at both FAMU and FSU, to challenge themselves in the pursuit of creative and practical solutions to everyday problems.

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