This article was featured in the Annual Engineering Research Report (2019-2020).

At CAPS, researchers like electrical and computer engineering chair Sastry Pamidi, Ph.D. and Peter Cheetham, Ph.D. provide undergraduate students quality research and other experimental learning opportunities with hands-on activities that complement what is taught in the classroom. These opportunities allow students to evolve into professional engineers by enhancing skills in problem-solving, communication and networking, as well as being part of a team.

This article was featured in the Annual Engineering Research Report (2019-2020).

During his undergraduate experience, Grant Steans balanced the worlds of band and coding. After joining Florida A&M’s Marching 100 during fall 2014 playing the trombone, he spent the next four years performing and gaining leadership, becoming the section leader and, eventually, band president.

Muhammad Fasih Waheed is working towards his doctorate in electrical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and sees the “big” picture globally. Especially when it comes to access to water and electricity. His invention TankiMatic took the grand prize of $1,000 in the 2022 Seminole Innovators Shark Tank Competition. 

Paul Mensah is an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He recently earned the prestigious Marshall Plan Fellowship. Mensah is a researcher at the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS). The doctoral candidate will have the opportunity to conduct research at the University of Applied Sciences, Upper Austria beginning in the fall semester.

“I am thrilled to get this opportunity to work with professor Peter Zeller and his team,” Mensah said. “They are renowned in the field of electric arc physics.”

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), in collaboration with Colorado-based Advanced Conductor Technologies, have demonstrated a new, ready-to-use superconducting cable system — an improvement to superconductor technology that drives the development of technologies such as all-electric ships or airplanes.

With more than 53 patents to his name, Levasseur Tellis is an example of what is possible with a degree from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. Walking in the historic shoes of Granville Taylor Woods, the first Black American granted 49 patents, Tellis hopes to inspire students with his personal story. 

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