Current Spotlights

  • Nahom Tewolde

    Nahom Tewolde

    Spring 2013

    As a transfer student, Tewolde would be the first to tell you his path to where he is today was nothing short of a perfect storm of events. Not a typical transfer student, Tewolde took time off before pursuing an engineering degree after earning his A.A. degree from Valencia...

  • Justin Vandenbroeck

    Justin Vandenbroeck

    Summer 2012

    Justin Vandenbroeck is an Industrial Engineering student at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His passion for sustainability has driven him to success in various avenues. Justin's spark began in 2010 when he began designing and implementing photovoltaic systems with...

  • Michelle Cullum

    Michelle Cullum

    Spring 2012

    "My father and my high school drafting teacher were instrumental in my decision to pursue an engineering degree," said Michelle Cullum, a civil and environmental engineering student. "One day my high school drafting teacher asked me what I was thinking of...

  • Ryan Kopinsky

    Ryan Kopinsky

    Spring 2012

    Ryan Kopinsky is a senior electrical engineering international student from Surinam, South America, where the native language is Dutch.

  • Robert Wandell

    Robert Wandell

    Spring 2012

    Robert Wandell has always had an interest in science. Growing up, he would take apart anything mechanical that his parents threw away to find out how it worked.

  • Imhotep Duncanson

    Imhotep Duncanson

    Spring 2012

    Imhotep Duncanson, a civil engineering student at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering started thinking "engineering" in high school. "The people who led me to pursue an engineering degree, " Duncanson remarks, "were my high school teachers. At...

  • Bradley Wells

    Bradley Wells

    Spring 2012

    Bradley Wells grew up about an hour west of Tallahassee so it is not surprising that the one thing that really attracted him to the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is the small campus atmosphere. Wells' experiences since, justified his choice of...

  • Nikki Jacobs

    Nikki Jacobs

    Fall 2011

    Nikki Jacobs chose to bring her math and science skills to Florida State and found a good fit for them in the College of Engineering. She also brought her people skills, and those led her to choose a major in industrial engineering.

  • Stephan Morrison-Ketter

    Stephan Morrison-Ketter

    Fall 2011

    Stephan Morrison-Ketter remembers exactly when he decided to be an industrial engineer. "In first year engineering as freshmen, we were introduced to all the different engineering department programs available at the college. Representatives from each department came...

  • Michael Perez

    Michael Perez

    Fall 2011

    FSU senior Michael Perez is captain of the Concrete Canoe Team.