If you’d told her she’d be overseeing a team of NASA engineers for projects like combustion stability on rocket engines, alumna Melissa Van Dyke would not have believed you. Currently Deputy Manager of the Flight Partnership and Programs Chief Engineer's Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Van Dyke graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Florida State University (FSU) in 1990. While in the Department, she focused on courses geared toward the aerospace industry; thus fluid dynamics and aerospace classes called her name.

Florida A&M University and FAMU-FSU College of Engineering graduate student Danielle Carr makes history as the first-ever female FAMU student to be awarded the prestigious SMART scholarship from the Department of Defense (DoD). The mechanical engineer from Pompano Beach, Florida, will receive full tuition and a yearly stipend from the SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program, sponsored by the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center-Philadelphia Division.

Engineering Senior Design Day happens every year in every engineering school in the nation, and FAMU-FSU College of engineering is no exception. It is an event filled with college students in suits scurrying through the school— mostly dark, serious suits with the flair of youth, and maybe colorful sneakers or a tie. Some students carry projects in their hands; other prototypes are so large it takes an entire team to cart them into the building.