BlackboardResearchers in the News
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Mechanical Engineering’s Sam Taira Receives the AFOSR Young Investigator...
Spring 2013
Congratulations to Sam Taira, assistant professor in mechanical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, on receiving the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award.
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IME and HPMI principal investigator leading a $4.4M project from VA
Spring 2013
Florida State University's High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) is leading a major partnership to develop the next generation of prosthetic limbs for military-veteran amputee patients, thanks to a new contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Congratulations to Dr. Teng Ma, biomedical engineering and Dr. Jim Zheng...
Fall 2012
Four innovative research projects have been awarded a total of $106,000 by the Florida State University Research Foundation to help move their discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace.
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Dr. Alamo named Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fall 2012
Congratulations to Rufina Alamo, professor in chemical and biomedical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, on being elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Under the Covers
Fall 2012
The process of methane oxidation reduces the emissions of methane and other volatile hydrocarbons from the surface of landfills. Quantifying methane oxidation is one of the major uncertainties in estimating national or global methane emissions from landfills. Landfill gas (LFG) that is not collected...
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Florida State University reports development of highly conductive, high...
Fall 2012
Florida State University's High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI, Tallahassee, Fla., USA) reports that has developed a new high-performance composite material that could be up to 10 times lighter and 250 times stronger than steel, twice as hard as diamond and highly conductive to electricity...
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Professor Returns from Tanzania Following Work As Fulbright Scholar
Fall 2012
Florida A&M University (FAMU) Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Primus V. Mtenga spent 10-months at the University of Dar-es-Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania as 2011-2012 Fulbright Scholar grantee. In these 10-months Dr. Mtenga taught courses in structural engineering...
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Mechanical Engineering Professor to Receive the Gary Anderson Early...
Spring 2012
Dr. William Oates, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, has been selected to receive the 2012 ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award by the Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Technical Committee of the ASME Aerospace Division. This award recognizes Oates for his notable...
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Researchers Developing Revolutionary Nanomaterial with Promise for Major...
Fall 2011
It's a car, it's a plane, it's … paper?
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Four FSU Projects Win 'GAP' Awards to Move Cutting-Edge Research from Lab...
Summer 2011
Researchers at Florida State University seeking to shepherd their research out of the laboratory and into the crowded commercial marketplace have a friend in the FSU Research Foundation. Since 2005, the foundation has funded a highly energetic - and competitive - grant program that supports those...
Research Announcements
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John O. Sobanjo, Ph.D. (Civil and Environmental Engineering), wrote an article, “State Transition Probabilities in Bridge Deterioration Based on Weibull Sojourn Times.” in the Journal of Structure and Infrasturcture Engineering.
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John O. Sobanjo, Ph.D. (Civil and Environmental Engineering), was appointed to serve on the Southeast Bridge Preservation Partnership Committee, which reports to the Federal Highway Administration.
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IEEE ICNSC2011 Best Paper Award
presented at the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control.Ming Yu, Electrical & Computer Engineering, with two co-authors, Wei Liu and Tian Xing.
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2010-2011 COFRS Awards (FSU)
Award provides $14,000, usually towards summer salary support and/or CRC-approved expenses.Ongi Englander, Mechanical Engineering
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2011 Planning Grants (FSU)
Twice a year the CRC awards $12,000 for each funded fall and spring Planning Grant.Subramanian Ramakrishnan with Samuel Grant and Anant Paravastu, Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
We are fortunate to have so many talented faculty at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. From groundbreaking research discoveries, leading to new and improved products and processes, our Faculty is making news and improving the quality of life here and around the world.
"Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." - Albert Einstein
