Florida State University College of Communication and Information (CCI) Associate Dean for Research and School of Information Professor Marcia A. Mardis is leading a cross-campus team of researchers in a new National Science Foundation Civic Innovation Challenge (NSF CIVIC) project titled “Rural Resiliency Hubs: A Planning Approach to Addressing the Resiliency Divide.” The project began in January 2021.

The Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) has received an award of $348,898 through the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s Rebuild Florida General Planning Support Program. Two FAMU-FSU College of Engineering civil engineering professors were part of the DURP team.

The funds are allocated through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development mitigation program formed in response to the 2016-2017 presidentially declared disasters and are used to bolster state, regional and local planning to withstand future disasters.

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have discovered a new technique that uses microwave technology to synthesize fertilizer for agriculture production. The process makes the fertilizer more efficient and better for the environment. 

Their work was recently published in Polymer Testing, an open-access scientific journal. 

Qian Zhang, an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, wants to improve those numbers and is developing a new system to test material that supports how roads perform. 

Zhang is working on a lab-scale testing apparatus and method that evaluates products used to reinforce pavement during rehabilitation. The products specifically treat reflective cracking problems that are a leading cause of pavement failure.

Rattlers and Noles! We want to have our own FAMU-FSU Engineering Mascot and we need your help!

The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering needs your help designing a new mascot! How would you like to use those design skills you have and to make history at the college? We want to invite you to design a mascot to represent the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

A method to improve testing for E. coli in beef and a system for evaluating a product used to reinforce pavement earned funding through a Florida State University program that supports researchers who are bringing their academic work to the marketplace.
 
FSU’s Office of the Vice President for Research awarded faculty members a pot of more than $73,000 through the Fall 2020 GAP Commercialization Investment Program.
 

In Florida, we have crazy weather. We’ve learned to hunker down or evacuate, but both can pose challenges for older adults. Now a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity is leading a new research center developing better ways for communities to plan, to prepare and to react to weather events and other threats in ways that accommodate the needs of older people and all populations.

Dean Murray Gibson has an urgent message for all engineering students.
Please watch this video.

Take the HEDS survey at the link in your university email ASAP!

Within a few years, humans may be sharing the road with autonomous buses that can move electrically and independently, without a driver. But are we ready? 

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering are trying to answer that question with a new $100,000 multi-disciplinary study funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The 21-month Transit IDEA project is part of the Transit Cooperative Research Program, designed to foster innovative concepts.