On Friday, March 8th, 2019, the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) hosted the National Industry Advisory Board as part of the goal to expand the visibility of the department at the university, state, and national level. The board consists of...
Dr. Zhe Cheng, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, has been awarded the 2019 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research on functional ceramics. The CAREER...
Signet International Holdings, Inc.’s (OTC: SIGN) subsidiary, SGT, has executed a contract with Florida International University (FIU) to further the development and commercialization of a new deicing technology enhanced by graphene, the revolutionary carbon-based...
Prof. Pezhman Mardanpour’s research reports new discovery about constructal design of flying wing aircraft at the ASME IMECE conference. This research stems from the collaborative efforts of Prof. Mardanpour, Prof. Adrian Bejan (Duke University) and Prof. Sylvie...
The STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) have traditionally been male-dominated. Additionally, there is generally a low representation of minority faculty in the fields. As a result, many of the roughly 600 minority female students on...
Wanting to fly is a dream of many little kids. Assen Andonov, born in Bulgaria, dreamed of flying a plane as a child. Growing up in the 1980s, Andonov would constantly be reminded of his dream because of military flyers displayed around town. Little by little, and...