Back in the ’90s, life was good for John Ensor Parker. He was a mechanical engineering graduate from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, with friends, a music studio, a Land Cruiser, windsurfing boards, and a job at a local engineering firm. His life was about to change.

On April 7, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering honored outstanding faculty and staff at the annual College Awards Night Banquet at the Capital City Country Club in Tallahassee, Florida. Ditching their sneakers, the engineering campus community celebrated the success of their students and peers on a warm night of fellowship.
 
The awards recognize employees who go above and beyond their day-to-day duties to serve the engineering campus community. Students from several top senior design teams were also honored at the event.        

At the atomic and subatomic scales of matter, classical laws of nature lose control and quantum mechanics take over. Discoveries of new quantum phenomena and materials, such as quantum entanglement and topological systems, promise to deliver groundbreaking technologies. New extremely efficient quantum computers and communications and cryptography technologies are among a few of the future applications that could revolutionize the world.

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering mechanical engineering students Michael Romega, Kristine Villarino, Andrew Burkhardt, Caleb Ward and Max McCammon’s revolutionary device to treat patients with lung injuries, “extraBREATH,” won the “People’s Choice Award” for the 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture competition.

More than a dozen of our FAMU-FSU College of Engineering faculty members have active labs at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Using the world’s most powerful magnet technology, they study everything from human neurobiology to complex fluid mechanics. See what’s behind the scenes at the National “MagLab” just steps from our college.

Tameika Hollis, a FAMU-FSU College of Engineering alumna and the chief executive officer of Illuminate, was presented with the Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic for more than two decades of leadership experience in the government contracting industry. 

Yavuz Oz, a post-doctoral researcher at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) took first place for the best paper published in Superconductor Science and Technology (SUST) by a young researcher. The Jan Evetts SUST Award was presented to Oz at the 2022 Applied Superconductivity Conference, held this Fall. 

Several FAMU-FSU College of Engineering students and faculty were recognized at the Applied Superconductivity Conference, in late 2022. Several awards and prizes were given out to outstanding engineers, scientists and managers who have made a significant contribution to the success of the field of applied superconductivity.