Distinguished Seminar Series: C.F. Zukoski
“Creation of a New Industry: Lithium Extraction in the Imperial Valley”
A lecture by Charles Zukoski, University of Southern California.
Engineers Secure $10 Million from the USDOT for Transportation Research
Researchers from a consortium of six institutions led by Florida A&M University have secured a five-year grant for $2 million per year from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to establish a new Tier One University Transportation Center (UTC) at FAMU.
College Awards Night Celebrates Engineering’s People and Accomplishments
On April 7, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering honored outstanding faculty and staff at the annual College Awards Night Banquet at the Capital City Country Club in Tallahassee, Florida. Ditching their sneakers, the engineering campus community celebrated the success of their students and peers on a warm night of fellowship.
The awards recognize employees who go above and beyond their day-to-day duties to serve the engineering campus community. Students from several top senior design teams were also honored at the event.
Thesis Defense: Sainath Rapolu
“Design of Hurricane Resistant Residential Structure in Florida: Construction Strategies for Alleviation and Cost Analysis”
Dept: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Chair(s): Yassir AbdelRazig, Eren Erman Ozguven, John Sobanjo
World’s Strongest Magnet
More than a dozen of our FAMU-FSU College of Engineering faculty members have active labs at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Using the world’s most powerful magnet technology, they study everything from human neurobiology to complex fluid mechanics. See what’s behind the scenes at the National “MagLab” just steps from our college.
FAMU-FSU Engineering Researcher to Serve on the Leon County Science Advisory Committee
Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, a faculty researcher in the civil and environmental engineering department at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, has been appointed to the Leon County Board of County Commissioner’s Science Advisory Committee. He will serve a four-year term, ending in Sept. 2027.
Dissertation Defense: Ahmed Alzahrani
“Realistic Adaptive Signal Control Under Platooned Connected Vehicles Environment”
Dept: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Chair(s): Dr. Ren Moses
Dissertation Defense: Comfort Adedeji
“Developing Machine Learning-Based Frameworks and Similarity-Driven Transferability Criteria for Watershed-Scale Water Quality Predictions in Poorly Gauged Watersheds”
Dept: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Chair(s): Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, Yanshuo Sun, Clayton J. Clark, Youneng Tang, Gang Chen
Dissertation Defense: Jalaycia Hughes
“Multi-Facet Approach to Evaluate Installation Quality and Energy Savings with a Probabilistic Investment Return Metric for Existing Single-Family Residential Buildings in Mixed Hot-Humid Climate”
Dept: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Chair(s): Dr. Abdelrazig & Dr. Clark II
FAMU-FSU Engineering Researchers Will Develop Solar Technology to Improve Disaster Resilience
A team of researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is developing a modular solar electricity system that can help communities keep electricity flowing during natural disasters.