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Aug. 21, 2018 The 鶹ƷƵCollege of Engineering and Computer Science, Dean Stella Batalama is pleased to announce an expansion of the college leadership team with the appointments of Frederick Bloetscher, associate dean for undergraduate studies and community outreach; Mihaela Cardei, associate dean for graduate studies; Javad Hashemi, associate dean for research; Shihong Huang, associate dean for faculty affairs, equity and inclusion;and, Paul Scarpinato, assistant dean, lab operations and engineering technology. [...] |
Aug. 7, 2018 A disabled veteran with an entrepreneurial spirit, Frederick Brunn always dreamed of being a successful mechanical engineer. On Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 1 p.m., he will make that dream come true, as he walks across the stage to be handed a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. [...] |
Aug. 1, 2018 Researchers from 鶹ƷƵ’s College of Engineering and Computer Science have received a $599,983 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on data mining models and algorithms for complex dynamic information networks for health care delivery. [...] |
July 23, 2018 The 鶹ƷƵ College of Engineering and Computer Science (COECS) Human-Powered Submarine (HPS) team placed third overall at the fourth biennial European International Submarine Race (eISR) at Haslar in Gosport, England. [...] |
July 17, 2018 The 鶹ƷƵCollege of Engineering and Computer Science is pleased to announce that Gary Perry, Ph.D., former 鶹ƷƵprovost with the concurrence of President Kelly and Dan Flynn, Ph.D., vice president for research at 鶹ƷƵhas appointed Dimitris A. Pados, Ph.D., professor and I-SENSE Fellow as the Charles E. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in Engineering. [...] |
June 20, 2018 鶹ƷƵCollege of Engineering and Computer Science Receives $175,000 NSF Grant, Launches ‘FloridaSOAR’ [...] |
May 25, 2018 Manhar R. Dhanak, Ph.D., professor and director of SeaTech - The Institute for Ocean & Systems Engineering in 鶹ƷƵ’s Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering was presented with the 2018 World Class Faculty Award by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance. [...] |
May 24, 2018 鶹ƷƵ’s College of Engineering and Computer Science has received a $500,000 gift from the Gangal family’s nonprofit foundation to establish an endowed scholarship fund for engineering graduate students with an emphasis on bioengineering research. [...] |
May 23, 2018 鶹ƷƵ's College of Engineering and Computer Science has been awarded a $1.25 million grant by the United States Office of Naval Research (ONR) to undertake research in support of autonomous unmanned marine vehicle platforms for coastal surveillance, coastal surveys, target tracking and protection of at-sea assets. [...] |
May 3, 2018 The 鶹ƷƵ Alumni Association (FAUAA) hosted its annual Hall of Fame and Distinguished Alumni ceremony and reception Wednesday, May 2, 2018. [...] |
April 26, 2018 Mimicking the seamless motion of how fish swim and use their fins to maneuver their way within the ocean depths has landed an engineering professor at 鶹ƷƵ with a prestigious $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. [...] |
April 25, 2018 The deans of 10 engineering colleges throughout Florida have formed a first-of-its-kind partnership in an effort to collaboratively demonstrate the impact their colleges have on the state’s and the nation’s innovation economy by producing a large, highly sought-after skilled workforce of engineers and computer scientists. [...] |
April 18, 2018 鶹ƷƵ President John Kelly and Provost Gary W. Perry hosted the University’s 49th annual Honors Convocation on Wednesday, April 18 at 4 p.m. at the University Theatre in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. [...] |
Feb. 28, 2018 It is estimated that of the 70 million cases of infertility worldwide, almost half are caused by factors relating to the male partner. A number of semen parameters – motility, morphology, velocity, volume, concentration, and count – affect male fertility. Are there enough of them? [...] |
Jan. 29, 2018 鶹ƷƵ undergraduate computer engineering student, Nazik Almazova with her teammates from the University of Pennsylvania won the grand prize at the PennApps XVII hackathon [...] |
Jan. 11, 2018 Researchers from 鶹ƷƵ’s College of Engineering and Computer Science have received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to design, deploy and evaluate a first-of-its-kind software-defined testbed for real-time undersea wireless communications (data, voice, and video streaming) and surveillance. [...] |
Nov. 28, 2017 Too much, too little, just right. It might seem like a line from “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” but actually describes an important finding from researchers in FAU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. [...] |
Nov. 14, 2017 鶹ƷƵReceives $1.3 Million NIH grant for prosthesis project. The sense of touch is often taken for granted. For someone without a limb or hand, losing that sense of touch can be devastating. [...] |
Sept. 27, 2017 Evaluating the structural integrity of aging timber railroad bridges in Florida and the United States is imperative, especially in the aftermath of destruction from hurricanes Irma and Harvey this year. [...] |
Aug. 29, 2017 Malaria, one of the most severe public health problems, affected 212 million people worldwide in 2015. This life-threatening disease is caused by parasites that are transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. [...] |
Aug. 28, 2017 Isaac Elishakoff, Ph.D., distinguished research professor in the department of ocean and mechanical engineering at 鶹ƷƵ recently authored the book "Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures, Strength of Materials, Random Vibrations, and Random Buckling.” [...] |
Aug. 9, 2017 There's "Counting Crows," counting sheep, counting blessings and now researchers at 鶹ƷƵ have their own version of "counting cars" – literally – in an attempt to improve traffic flow on South Florida's and our nation’s overcrowded roads. [...] |
July 31, 2017 Following a national search, 鶹ƷƵ has named Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., as the new dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Batalama, who assumes this new role, Tuesday, August 1, comes to 鶹ƷƵfrom the University at Buffalo, a flagship institution of The State University of New York (SUNY) and a premier research-intensive university. [...] |
July 6, 2017 鶹ƷƵ’s Human-Powered Submarine (HPS) team placed second overall in the absolute speed category at the 2017 International Submarine Races [...] |
May 19, 2017 Owls Racing, 鶹ƷƵ’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) team, finished 21st overall out of 110 teams at the Formula SAE Michigan, the [...] |
May 4, 2017 The 鶹ƷƵ Alumni Association (FAUAA) hosted its Hall of Fame and Distinguished Alumni ceremony in May. [...] |
April 27, 2017 A team of four engineering students took home the top prize at this year’s 鶹ƷƵ Business Plan Competition with a system [...] |
April 17, 2017 鶹ƷƵ President John Kelly and Provost Gary W. Perry hosted the University’s 48th annual Honors Convocation [...] |
March 21, 2017 鶹ƷƵ’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) team placed fifth overall in the 2017 ASCE Southeast Student Conference, [...] |
March 20, 2017 鶹ƷƵ’s Technology and Aerospace Club (TAC) within the College of Engineering and Computer Science placed third in two categories at the [...] |
March 3, 2017 Owls Racing, 鶹ƷƵ’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) racing team, recently took home second place [...] |
Feb. 22, 2017 About the size of a tablet, a portable device that could be used in a host of environments like a busy airport or even a remote location in South America, [...] |
Feb. 7, 2017 鶹ƷƵ recently received designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by the United States Department of Education. [...] |