Four materials science and engineering graduate students from Florida State University and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering were recently named winners of the 2023 James Brooks Symposium oral presentation competition. 

The April 21, 2023 competition was open to students in the interdisciplinary Materials Science and Engineering graduate program at the college. Each student talked about their current research. 

It climbs like a gecko and freestyles when it hits the water. A feisty little robot called the AquaClimber is the latest bio-inspired robot designed by the researchers at CISCOR, the Center for Intelligent Systems, Control and Robotics lab, where inspiration comes from the natural world around us. 

“At CISCOR, we want to understand the locomotion of animals and hope to use that understanding to help us design robots,” Max Austin, a mechanical engineering student at CISCOR said. 

Back in the ’90s, life was good for John Ensor Parker. He was a mechanical engineering graduate from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, with friends, a music studio, a Land Cruiser, windsurfing boards, and a job at a local engineering firm. His life was about to change.

On April 7, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering honored outstanding faculty and staff at the annual College Awards Night Banquet at the Capital City Country Club in Tallahassee, Florida. Ditching their sneakers, the engineering campus community celebrated the success of their students and peers on a warm night of fellowship.
 
The awards recognize employees who go above and beyond their day-to-day duties to serve the engineering campus community. Students from several top senior design teams were also honored at the event.        

At the atomic and subatomic scales of matter, classical laws of nature lose control and quantum mechanics take over. Discoveries of new quantum phenomena and materials, such as quantum entanglement and topological systems, promise to deliver groundbreaking technologies. New extremely efficient quantum computers and communications and cryptography technologies are among a few of the future applications that could revolutionize the world.

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering mechanical engineering students Michael Romega, Kristine Villarino, Andrew Burkhardt, Caleb Ward and Max McCammon’s revolutionary device to treat patients with lung injuries, “extraBREATH,” won the “People’s Choice Award” for the 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture competition.

It is the second year Florida State University was the host of the event resembling a Shark Tank competition. Team extraBreath represented FSU and the joint college in the event featuring 12 ACC conference schools.

More than a dozen of our FAMU-FSU College of Engineering faculty members have active labs at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Using the world’s most powerful magnet technology, they study everything from human neurobiology to complex fluid mechanics. See what’s behind the scenes at the National “MagLab” just steps from our college.