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.

Michenell Louis-Charles can’t remember a time when he wasn’t interested in planes. The ins/outs of the engine, how they take off, the science behind the flight. The FAMU-FSU mechanical engineering student is a senior, currently studying thermal fluids at the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP).