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.

For some undergraduate students at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, learning isn’t limited to the classroom and labs. Hands-on undergraduate research is encouraged, as well as supported.

Peter Cheetham, Ph.D., a research faculty member at the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), mentors three undergraduate engineering students who are now primary authors of research publications on projects they have been engaged with all year.