Northrop Grumman, a leading global security company, is consistently looking to increase a multicultural workforce. Northrop Grumman understands the importance of variety within its ranks. In 2018, DiversityInc ranked the company number 23 among its Top 50 Companies for Variety. But as with all STEM employers, there’s more work to be done.
As the 2019 Florida Legislative Session begins in March, Florida State will request funding in recognition of its preeminence and performance to support the university’s continued efforts to hire world-class faculty and scholars, advance its professional and graduate degree programs, support academic excellence and maintain its facilities.
Jelani James is a third-year mechanical engineering student from Chattanooga attending FAMU-FSU Engineering through Florida A&M University. He is most avid about building and designing. His vision statement involves using his creations to help others.
For the FSU-FAMU College of Engineering, research and multiculturalism are the most significant factors in the school’s rising national ranking.
According to Murray Gibson, dean of the shared college, they have increased their rankings by about 19 points in the last two years. He says it’s all due to their messaging and their research funding.
Students at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering will work with the State of Florida and FEMA specialists on projects involved in the recovery of the Panhandle from Hurricane Michael.
Lisa Wight is currently a Production Manager at Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida. Lisa is a proud alumna of Florida A&M University, graduating in 1997 from the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. Lisa started her professional career as a Mechanical Engineer at Allied Signal in Kansas City, MO. She left Honeywell to begin her career at Harris Corporation in 2007. In her years at Harris, she has served as Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineer, and as Production Manager.
Dr. Joel House has been the liaison for the Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) for many years. He has sponsored or coordinated the sponsorship of many senior design projects throughout the years and has been a Mechanical Engineering Advisory Council (MEAC) member for more than 10 years.
A novel magnet half the size of a cardboard toilet tissue roll usurped the title of “world’s strongest magnetic field” from the metal titan that had held it for two decades at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
Earlier this month, the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) announced the winners of the IIR scientific awards. Shiran Bao, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the cryogenics lab at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, has been selected as the winner of the prestigious Peter Kapitza Award. The award will be conferred at the 25th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (ICR) in Montreal, Canada, in August 2019.
Scientific experiments at the micro-level may always be a practice fraught with ambiguity, a challenge that has never stopped the most tenacious minds. Take researchers Brian Mastracci, Ph.D. and professor Wei Guo of the Cryogenics Lab at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. The pair recently developed a scheme that clarifies the process by which a cooling element for large-scale equipment (such as superconducting magnets) operates under turbulence.