Louis N. Cattafesta, III, university eminent scholar and professor of mechanical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). 

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Technical Systems Integration Inc. researchers won a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) grant for undersea wireless power transfer.

In a region of the United States that is home to 20 major military installations and a defense business presence worth $95 billion annually, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is uniquely situated for high-impact aerospace research and testing.

Six faculty from Florida A&M University were honored with Director Awards at the National Symposium on Student Retention Conference 2021. The group received the award for Best Paper and featured a path for STEM student success. The conference is a strategic initiative taken by the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange (CSRDE) at the University of Oklahoma. 

William Oates, chair and Cummins Inc. Professor in Mechanical Engineering, was elected to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Mechanical Engineering Department Heads and Chairs Executive Committee. Oates was one of seven nominees who will occupy the 2022-2024 position. 

“It is an honor to be selected by my peers to serve on the committee,” Oates said. “The exchange of ideas and collaboration will help further the exciting progress we are already making as a department.”

As humanity continues its exploration of the universe, the low-gravity environment of space presents unusual challenges for scientists and engineers.

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have developed a new tool to help meet that challenge — a novel design for a low-gravity simulator that promises to break new ground for future space research.
 

The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) has awarded a $6.3 million contract to Florida State University (FSU) and the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) to study multifunctional composites to meet the aerospace application needs of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and Department of Defense. 

A team led by FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers has new insight into molecules that change their shape in response to light.

The researchers studying azobenzene-based polymers found that their free volume — a measure of the space between polymer chains — was strongly linked with the polymers’ ability to convert visible light radiation into mechanical energy.

The results were published in Advanced Functional Materials.

Wei Guo and his team of researchers disproved a well-accepted theory of swirling motion in 2D superfluid turbulence

Engineering researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory revealed that a well-accepted explanation of the spontaneous formation of Onsager vortices in 2D superfluid turbulence is incorrect. Their findings are published recently in Physical Review Letters (PRL).