NASA astronaut Scott Kelly famously called the Bahamas, “the most beautiful place from space.”

The 700-island archipelago spans the ocean with islands that boast white shimmering sand beaches and some of the clearest water on earth. The islands are known for many things from pirate forts to the famous Junkanoo festival. 

Something that most people don’t know is the Bahamas are also the home of some very successful engineers and they are graduates of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

A Florida State University graduate student at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering has been unstoppable these days. Jackie Jermyn’s research on mobile robot navigation has led the young scholar on a path that has earned her a prestigious SMART Scholarship from the Department of Defense (DoD), which will fully fund her doctoral studies for the next three years. 

Purty points to his company and alma mater as foundations for winning the prestigious technical and leadership award

For Marcos Purty, realizing that he could thrive outside his comfort zone was a turning point in his career.  That realization ultimately led to him being awarded the Black Engineer of the Year for Career Achievement at the 2020 BEYA Conference in Washington, D.C.

When Nathan Brooks, Ph.D., was a young student in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, he walked in two worlds. He and his wife were pursuing engineering degrees while also juggling with life as a young married couple with a newborn.

A Florida A&M University (FAMU) electrical and computer engineering student will have the opportunity of a lifetime to be part of a new Google Tech Exchange Program.

Darryl Brooks, a senior in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, was accepted into the program after a rigorous screening process by Google that involved interviews and testing. Only students with the most optimal and correct solutions were accepted. 

The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering’s annual Green & Gold 2019 Tailgate party was a big success this year with more than 400 people in attendance. This is the second year of the festive event that celebrates the partnership between the two universities.

The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is working with UK industry and the US Navy to explore advanced energy storage options for British warships. Developed out of initial designs by FAMU-FSU Engineering-associated researchers at the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), the project is adapting motorsport technology to power the next generation of naval laser weapons.

Direct current (DC) powers flashlights, smartphones and electric cars, but major power users depend on alternating current (AC), which cycles on and off 60 times per second. Among the reasons: AC is simple to turn off when there’s a problem – known as a fault – such as a tree falling on a power line.

More and more systems are transitioning to DC power, but researchers are still trying to find the perfect way to turn off the power in these DC systems. A new collaboration between Florida State University and Georgia Tech could solve that problem.