The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and researchers and engineers from Eglin Air Force Base celebrated the beginning of a new partnership Monday to train undergraduate students in areas critical to the U.S. Air Force. 

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin will fund a $400,000 grant to create the Air Force Research Laboratory Scholars program at the College of Engineering. The program will bring students into the lab environment where they can directly benefit from working with faculty researchers on Air Force-related research. 

Two students from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering placed first in the undergraduate and graduate technology categories at the recent Emerging Researchers National Conference (ERN) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) event in Washington, D.C. 

Jasmine Gay, a mechanical engineering student won the undergraduate award and Sean Jackson an industrial and manufacturing engineering graduate researcher won the graduate award.