The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering news for faculty and staff


Happening

Lunchtime Food Trucks will be at the Shaw Building's picnic area on the corner of East Paul Dirac Drive and Pottsdamer Street starting at 11:00 am. Lunch truck tentative schedule here.

COE Cafe: SU Hours thru August 1 - Open Mon-Thur, 9:00AM-2:00PM, Closed Fri.-Sun. | Menu 


Tally Robotics Youth Summer Camp, ends July 24, 2025, M-F, 9:00am-3:00pm, Location TBD (Shearer)

Brilliant Resilience Summer School, ends July 24, 2025, M-F, 8:00am-5:00pm, Location TBD (Ernst)

Brilliant Resilience Youth Summer School Showcase, July 25, 2025, 2:00-6:00P, B210 (Ernst)

Tally Robotics Summer Camp, July 28 thru August 1, 2025, 9:00am - 3:00pm, A226 (Shearer)

NASA + EN BP-AE REU, ends August 1, 2025, at AME (Moore)

Resilience REU, May ends August 1, 2025, at RIDER (Zhang)

CBE REU, ends August 1, 2025, COE (Ramakrishnan, Ali)

Summer Term Ends, August 1, 2025

IME REU, ends August 2, 2025, at HPMI (Dickens)

Joint Management Council Meeting, August 5, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Event Location: Zoom (Brown)

Department of Mechanical Engineering Annual Meeting, August 18, 2025, 8:00am-5:30pm, Parkview at Cascades ballroom, 414 East Bloxham Street.

2025 New Faculty Start, August 11, 2025

2025 New Faculty Orientation, August 22, 2025, 12:00pm - 3:30pm, A-115 at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. Confirm your attendance by emailing Duo Liu.

Fall Semester Begins, August 25, 2025

IGNITE Event: Access to Capital for Startups, featuring Chris Edwards, Regional President of MidSouth Bank, August 28, 2025, 10:30am-11:30am, at IGNITE Tallahassee 1729 W Paul Dirac Dr. Innovation Park.

Labor Day Holiday, September 1, 2025, College closed

STEM Resume Cafe, September 25, 2025, 10:00am - 2:00pm, A Atrium (Lazar)

Engineering Ambassador Network (EAN) SE Workshop, September 26-28

STEM Career & Internship Fair, September 30, 2025, 9:00am-3:00pm, All common areas. (Lazar)

FSU Seminole Futures, October 1, 2025, all majors career fair

FAMU Homecoming, October 18, 2025

ORNL Student Workshops, October 15, 2025, 8:00am-5:00pm, IRCB (Keller)

FSU Discovery Days, October 20-23, 2025, TBD (Shearer)

Engineering Ambassador Network (EAN) SE Workshop, October 24-26, 2025, TBD (Keller)

FSU Homecoming, November 1, 2025

Veteran's Day Holiday, November 11, 2025, College closed

Joint Management Council Meeting, November 18, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Location B202 (Brown)

Thanksgiving Day Holiday—No Classes, November 26-28, 2025 (Wednesday-Friday)

Last Day of Classes, December 5, 2025

Final Exams, December 8-12, 2025

Fall Semester Ends, December 12, 2025

 

Bookmark college events webpage. 


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Federal Research Updates

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Time Sensitive - Undergrad Experiments Operated by Astronauts on Int’l Space Station, STEM Opportunity Sept 2025

Announcing the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) 23rd Flight Opportunity - SSEP Mission 21 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2, 2025.

  • U.S. and Canadian National STEM Education Program Opportunity for Undergraduate Institutions 
  • 2025 Opportunity for 2- and 4-year Colleges and Universities to Engage 30+ Students (Reflecting at Least 10 Teams) in Real Microgravity Experiment Design and Proposal Writing, with One Experiment at Your Institution Selected for Operation by Astronauts on the International Space Station 
  • STEM Project-Based Learning Through Immersion in an Authentic Research Experience on the High Frontier 

TIME CRITICAL: Interested schools are directed to inquire about the program as soon as possible, and no later than July 31, 2025 

MILESTONE DATES:

  • Experiment Design and Proposal Writing Phase: September 2 to November 4, 2025 (9 weeks) 
  • Selection of Your Community's Flight Experiment: December 19, 2025 
  • SpaceX Launch of Your Experiment to the International Space Station: Late Spring 2026 
  • Ferry Flight Return to Earth: Launch + 4 to 6 weeks 
  • SSEP National Conference, likely at NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL, early July 2026 

PROGRAM OVERVIEW: The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education announces Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 21 to the International Space Station. This opportunity gives students across your institution the ability to design and propose microgravity experiments to fly in low-Earth orbit on the International Space Station (ISS). Experiments are designed to real world engineering and technology constraints imposed by the flight certified mini-lab that must be used, and the nature of flight operations to and from Low Earth Orbit. One experiment at each institution will be selected to fly to ISS on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in FL. Your experiment will launch from historic pad 39A, the same pad from which all Apollo missions to the Moon launched, and 82 Space Shuttle missions. Astronauts aboard ISS will operate the experiment for 4-6 weeks before it is returned to Earth and to your community's student flight team for harvesting and analysis. SSEP is not a simulation. We are truly inviting your community to be part of America's Space Program. 

Over the history of human spaceflight, a mission patch has been associated with every NASA mission. A college or university can engage hundreds of students in mission patch art and design competitions - as possibly outreach to local school districts, with up to two patches selected to fly with the flight experiment. SSEP is therefore an authentic STEAM initiative. We invite communities to use their mission patch competition to also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon missions, and humans returning to the Moon in 2026 with NASA's Artemis Program. 

An important consideration - the expectation is that faculty mentors in a participating 2- or 4-year college or university will engage at least 30 undergraduate students over 9 weeks of experiment design and proposal writing spanning September 2 through November 4, 2025. Students will form into at least 10 teams, each team designing a microgravity experiment in a science discipline of their choice. Each team writes a formal proposal to make the case for why their experiment should be selected for flight to ISS. Your students will be engaged in a very real research proposal competition, focusing on technical writing, and mirroring the experiences of professional scientists and engineers. A national review board meeting in Washington, DC, will select the flight experiment for your community, and do the same for each of the other Mission 21 participating communities. 

The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) provides a fully authentic research competition as a STEM Project-based Learning experience. Launch of the Mission 21 flight experiments is currently projected for Late Spring 2026. 

For program details, and how to explore this opportunity for your community, carefully read the SSEP Home Page, which provides a comprehensive summary of the program.

To explore undergraduate participation in SSEP Missions to date, visit webpage.

Program Contact: 

Stacy Hamel, Senior Flight Operations Manager

National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) 

stacyhamel@ncesse.org


ASEMFL Annual Meetings

ASEMFL Save the date

 

Find FSU Resources at response.fsu.edu

We hope you are having a fantastic summer and are finding ways to beat the heat. Whether new to FSU or returning to campus, we want you to know that your FSU community is always here for you. The resources listed below are available to help support your well-being, and we encourage you to reach out as you see fit. Thank you for showing kindness and support of one another.

To access important resources and updates, visit: RESPONSE.FSU.EDU

FSU Counseling & Psychological Services

FSU Employee Assistance Program

MiResource

TalkCampus

FSU Victim Advocate Program

FSU Case Management Services

FSU Food for Thought Pantry

FSU University Health Services


Need to Know

Engineering Our Future

We identified five strategic priorities to focus on for the next five years. For each of these priorities, we set goals with identified metrics for our college: 

Keep up with the plan here.

 

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Opportunities for Faculty and Staff

FAMU HR Upcoming Trainings Calendar 

Click here for the latest Upcoming Trainings calendar.

 


Dissertation and Thesis Defenses

Dissertation Defenses - TBA

 

THESIS DEFENSES - TBA

 

For full defense announcement info click here.

 


Engineering Spirit Shop at Clothesline
Engineering Spirit Shop - Order here. All orders can be picked up locally or shipped. If you have questions, please email Dana.

Good to Know

New FSU ID Cards for COE Joint Faculty

FSU is issuing new ID cards for our FAMU faculty in the College of Engineering. These new cards are designated "COE Joint Faculty" rather than "Courtesy" at FSU. This change reflects our efforts to better recognize and integrate our faculty within the college community, as outlined in Article 4 of the Memorandum of Agreement between FAMU and FSU and the One College goal of the COE Strategic Plan.

To obtain your new ID card, drop by the FSU card office

 

FAMU-FSU Engineering Career Services Liaisons

Sean Collins - sean.collins@famu.edu

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Sr. Career Specialist, Career Services Liaison at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering | https://cpdcenter.famu.edu/


FSU - TBD Career Liaison for the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Drop-in Career Advising at the Career Center (No Appointment Necessary):

  • Monday (VIRTUAL): 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Click HERE 
  • Tuesday - Thursday (IN-PERSON): 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
  • Friday (VIRTUAL): 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Click HERE 

Pre-Scheduled Career Advising Appointments with a Career Advisor (located at The Career Center):

  • Login to NoleNetwork
    • Click appointments on the menu bar options
    • Click request a new appointment
    • Select Virtual Career Advising
    • Click search at the bottom
    • Select your preferred appointment time to complete the booking process by following any additional prompts
    • You will get a confirmation email and can always log back into your NoleNetwork account to update, change, or cancel your virtual career advising booking

Career Docs (Virtual Document Review):

 

 


Things to Do

Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee

Hollywood Movies at the IMAX | Call (850) 645-7796 to Buy Tickets

Faculty and Staff tickets are $11. Check out all the new movies now playing, here.

 


Resources

Engineering Career Services
Virtual and F2F advising hours here.

FAMU Academics
Undergraduate Links to academic info, student services, student life and more.
Grad Links to academic info, grad student services and more.

FSU Student Academic Resources
Undergraduate Links to academic info, official university announcements and public health information.
Grad Links to graduate student academic info, official university announcements and public health information.

Online Scholarship Search

FAMU Scholarships

FSU Scholarships

In case of emergencies 

Call 9-1-1. If you have concerns about your safety while on the engineering campus, call FSU Police 850-644-1234.

The Engineering Library Circulation Desk

Hours are: Monday - Friday – 8am to 5pm | (850) 410-6328 | A225 & A248

College Lost and Found

Student Services in B111 is the college lost and found location. If you've found something, drop it off here and if you've lost something, check here first!

Need a Mental Health Break? 

Welcome to the Breakroom, B226-H, which is available for one person at a time, from 9:00 am - 4:50 pm on normal business days. Reserve a 50-minute slot using this link.

FAMU Counseling Services and Support

Check online here for more information about individual or group counseling services. 
To schedule an appointment, you can walk in or contact the office by phone at 850-599-3145. 
If you are experiencing a crisis and need to speak with a counselor when our office is closed, call BetterMynd for FREE at (844) 287-6963.

FSU Employee Mental Health & Wellbeing Support

If you are struggling, please visit the Employee Mental Health & Wellbeing Support page for a list of on-campus and community resources. 
If you are in crisis or need immediate intervention, contact FSU PD at (850) 644-1234. To reach the 24/7 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call 988. 
Questions? Contact the Employee Assistance Program at (850) 644-2288.

 


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