“My grandpa spent his entire career working with NASA on projects for the Apollo missions,” remembers Kyle York, a fourth-year electrical engineering student at FAMU-FSU Engineering. “My favorite story is about his work on the Lunar Rover and the obstacles they had to overcome to develop and build a system that allowed astronauts to communicate from the moon back to Earth.”
Each weekday, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering undergraduates Herbert Lopez, Ana De Leon, Paola Chavez and Austin Rodriguez collaborate at the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) research facility to create a novel medium voltage cable that aims to have reduced reactive power than the ones currently used throughout the continental U.S. If they are successful, the cable could pave the way for improved power transmission efficiency on electric grids across the nation.
FAMU-FSU Engineering student Melanie Munroe and her senior design team SWAY Aid were working hard to meet the demands of creating a Senior Design project prototype when the news of COVID-19 hit the nation. She and her team were working on a vending device to prevent human trafficking when the physical doors to the college were ordered closed to help control the spread of the virus. Munroe and her team suddenly had to adapt to a new way of working together, alone.
Dr. Thomas A. Lipo, an esteemed research professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering has passed away on Friday, May 8, 2020, at his home in Middleton, Wisconsin. He was a pioneer in the field of electrical machines, power electronics, and machine drives and his prolific 50-year career spanned nearly the complete history of modern solid-state adjustable-speed motor drives to date.
Mahogany B. Newell received her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (Florida State University) from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in 2002 and was recently elected to serve on the FSU Alumni Association’s Board of Directors. Newell was selected via competitive selection process from a pool of over 80 applicants. She’s the first board member from the college.
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On March 22, 2018, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) was awarded Southeastern Region III Chapter of the Year. This region encompasses five states and the Bahamas. Representing the college, 56 NSBE chapter members attended the 44th annual convention in Pittsburgh. This is the first time since 2006 the chapter has won the award.
Eight freshmen engineering students from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering won third place in the Advancing Minorities Interest in Engineering (AMIE) Design Challenge. The event was hosted at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) conference held in February, 2019 in Washington, D.C. A total of 11 teams from various Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) participated in the event.
This article was featured in the Annual Engineering Research Report (2019-2020).
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