A solar and electric-powered trolley, a transfer system that moves patients from one hospital bed to another, and a virtual roll call for police officers … what do all these have in common? They were all senior design projects conceptualized and built by engineering...
Student Highlight
SCIS students worked with SOP Technologies to help develop a “Smart Stormwater” system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk7qO5NIz3o Leandro Gonzalez and Luis Miguel Herrnsdorf showcased their project in the CEC Senior Design Project, on building a web app to help cities track and analyze data captured by wireless sensors. Stop Ocean Pollution...
CEC Senior Design Project Showcase
This year SCIS Senior Project Showcase will collaborate with College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) to host its 1st Annual Senior Design Project Showcase event on April 20th, 2018 at the FIU Ocean Bank Convocation Center (FIU Arena). The inaugural event will bring...
Mohsen Taheri awarded the UGS Provost Award for Graduate Student Engagement
Empowering Startup Communities and Supporting Local Entrepreneurship Initiatives in Miami and South Florida Mohsen Taheri has been awarded the UGS Provost Award for Graduate Student Engagement at the Provost Awards Recognition Reception, which took place during the...
SCIS PH.D. students awarded University Fellowship
We are happy to report that three of our Ph.D. students, Tauhidul Alam, Samia Tasnim, and Georges Kamhoua Kamto, were awarded the University Graduate School's Dissertation Year Fellowship. Thank you for nominating your students and offering your support!
MangoHacks: Building code for fun can lead to students landing jobs
From improving your rehab to rehabbing your nightlife – these are just some of the problems that about 550 students tried to solve at the recent MangoHacks hosted at FIU’s School of Computing & Information Sciences‘ PG6 Tech Station. Participants in FIU’s largest...
SCIS student – Got my first job at Google!
Krista Shuckerow, B.S in Statistics, second major – Economics; minor in Computer Science has accepted her first job at Google. As a sophomore, I went to my first hackathon, MangoHacks, at FIU in spring of 2016. I walked in, joined a team, built a project and demoed...
Microsoft’s College Code Competition (MSFT3C)
MSFT3C is a free coding competition sponsored and run by Microsoft exclusively for college students. Students come with a team of 3-4 or create their own at the event, the teams will be given an easy, medium and hard question. The team with the most points will win...
SCIS Club’s table at Council for Student Organization
The Council for Student Organization held a spring gathering for clubs all around FIU, several of which where part of the School of Information and Computing Sciences. SCIS Clubs participating: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) WICS...
Perseverance lands engineering student an internship at MIT
This past summer, Garcia got the opportunity of a lifetime. He always dreamed of going to MIT so when a friend told him about a summer internship program, he applied. Out of 600 students who applied, 36 were accepted. Garcia was among them. He spent 10 weeks at MIT,...