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

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

Rodney Roberts, Ph.D., received the 2018 Outstanding Contribution Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in recognition of his time, contributions and leadership in the organization, including positions as section vice president, secretary, associate editor and more. Specifically, Roberts is a leader in the organization’s areas of robotics and automation.

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

Tim Lynch is the Space Segment Executive Director and Chief Mission Architect of L3Harris Technologies. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering through Florida State University in 2000 and graduated from the Pennsylvania-Wharton School of Business leadership program in 2017.

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.