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.
Florida hosts two (of only four) deep-water naval ports with adjacent airfields, the Joint Gulf Range Complex in the Gulf of Mexico, the military’s only east coast space launch facility and several critical Department of Defense (DoD) research, development, training and evaluation (RDT&E) centers.
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.”
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.