The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Machine Shop crew kicks into high gear when senior design rolls around.

Students count on the small team of superheroes to support their capstone projects. For many, those projects represent the highlight of their college careers.

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering professors Jonathan Clark and Christian Hubicki recently received the 2022 University Innovation Award from L3Harris Technologies. The researchers study robotic locomotion at the Center for Intelligent Systems, Control and Robotics (CISCOR) at the college.

Walking out of the latest “Top Gun” movie, you might remember the iconic catchphrase, “I feel the need for speed.” Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, played by Tom Cruise, said those famous words in the 1986 movie, and they became the mantra of NAVY fighter pilots pushing their limits with the aerodynamics of flight. That’s the movies, but what about real life?

Professors at Florida A&M University (FAMU) and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have garnered a prestigious Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Center for Complex Materials Design for Multidimensional Additive Processing (also known as the CoManD Center).