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.
Including people of different backgrounds, skill sets, attitudes and personalities in any organization is a critical factor in that organization’s ultimate success. That’s the premise of this discussion, which was also made available via Facebook Live and 4FSU, Comcast Channel 4. The guests for the discussion: John Thrasher, President of Florida State University; Renisha Gibbs, Florida State University’s Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Vice President for Human Resources; Inam Sakinah, Founding Chair of Power of We at Florida State University; Isa Colli, present FSU Power of We chair
Like many of our leading faculty, J. Murray Gibson, dean of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, is known around the world for his research and leadership experience. As an experienced scientist and researcher, Gibson has been asked several times to provide guidance on the evaluation of large-scale research enterprises in other countries, including the UK, France, Germany and Australia.
For the FSU-FAMU College of Engineering, research and diversity 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.
On Monday, June 2, 2019 FAMU-FSU College of Engineering dean J. Murray Gibson announced Ms. Carol Hill, M.B.A., was hired as the new Director of Development, FSU Foundation, for FAMU-FSU Engineering.
"We are very pleased that the FSU foundation has provided us with a full time development officer to replace Sarishni Patel, who served us well for many years," he said.
As a part of the engineering team, Ms. Hill will work directly with the FSU foundation and the college’s alumni, and work co-operatively with the FAMU foundation.
Thomas Harrison, Ph.D. passed away on the morning of Dec. 17, 2018 in Tallahassee. Dr. Harrison was an electrical engineering professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and was the chair of the electrical and computer engineering department from 1988 to 1996. Before joining academia, he was an engineer at IBM.
Simon Foo, Ph.D., Harrison's colleague in the department and also a former chair, said of him:
We are pleased to announce that starting today construction crews will begin work on three major construction projects. In response to your requests and suggestions, we are improving: 1) FAMU-FSU Engineering hardscaping/landscaping, 2) Building A parking lot lights, and 3) Compressed gas cylinder storage facility.
The deadline for FSU students to change the grading type for their FSU undergraduate engineering courses is extended to 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5. (The deadline for non-engineering courses is not being extended.)
The request process and reason for this extension are explained below.
PROCESS:
Our administrative processes will require a good bit of manual work, so we need your help to keep our process streamlined. To make/submit your requests to change grading type:
Listen to the recording of the Fall 2020 Update for Engineering Students live Zoom with Dean Gibson. Information and policies are changing fast but we will give you the latest details on classes, schedules, labs, research and more.
Undergraduates at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering will have the chance to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems as scholars in the new National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges Scholars Program, launching on campus in Fall 2020.
