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.

Network science is how mathematicians and software designers construct complicated social networks like Facebook. But a group of Florida State University researchers has found that these equations can tell engineers a lot about the composition of different materials.

Gena Humphrey Henderson, Ph.D., serves as Chief of the Modeling & Simulation Branch of Exploration Systems and Operations Division within the KSC Engineering Director at John F. Kennedy Space Center. Before this position, Henderson progressed through several leadership positions at Kennedy Space Center.

Dear FAMU-FSU College of Engineering students,

Although classes at both main campuses will be suspended on their respective Homecoming Day (see dates below), classes at the College of Engineering will be held as usual.  

Engineering scientists develop new tools to make superconductor particle accelerators safer 

In 2008, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland exploded. This is one of the most powerful particle accelerators ever built. A faulty connection caused some magnets to overheat and melt, triggering an explosion of pressurized helium gas. Accidents like this are very dangerous and are very costly in terms of time, money and of course the possibility of human fatality. 

Growing up, Jackson Dixon didn’t believe higher education would be his trajectory. As a kid, he was raised on farmland and assumed he’d tend the land like his father. However, Jackson had always taken a fascination to the mechanics of the farm tools he’d often use.

“I liked watching all the mechanical linkages working on the farm with the equipment and everything,” Dixon said. “It always seemed really cool to me. I’ve always wanted to be on the inside of creating that kind of stuff.”