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.

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. 

Alysha Vidal is from Tampa, Florida, and is pursuing a degree in civil engineering and environmental engineering. When not taking her engineering classes, Vidal spends time as a cadet in the Air Force ROTC program at Florida State University. She hopes to be a pilot one day.

New research from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering combines climate and land use projections to predict water availability.

“Current climate models are a reliable tool to predict future water availability,” said Gang Chen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the college. “What we are lacking is having enough data to make those models as effective as they can be.”