Community
Service to the community is an important mission we strive to fulfill. Our school seeks to have both a global scientific impact and an engaged and relevant local impact on technology-related industries in Miami and South Florida. Whether we are providing advanced workshops for teachers, demonstrating the state-of-the-art technology at an event, or providing at-risk students with opportunities to learn about technology, our faculty, staff, and students are committed to sharing our knowledge and talents for the betterment of society
HackNight with UPE
Last Wednesday, the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Hackers committee hosted this year's first HackNight, giving students a chance to participate in team-building activities and brainstorming application ideas for last week's upcoming hackathons. Last week's hackathons...
Architecture & SCIS students at Florida International University built a replica of the Hard Rock Stadium for Miami-Dade Police.
https://youtu.be/eMN4QXA6UKw Samuel Morris was featured on Kansas City local KMBC 9 News on January 29th, 2020. He has worked with several students from FIU's School of Architecture on building a 3D replica of Hard Rock Stadium. The project was requested by local law...
Yolanda Belisario internship at Assurant Inc.
Name: Yolanda Belisario Hometown: San Tome, Anzoategui, Venezuela. Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned at Assurant Inc. Since my first day at Assurant, I was exposed to different technologies and methodologies. The very first day I was invited to...
Ryan Paredes Internship at Assurant Inc.
Name: Ryan Paredes Hometown: New York Where did you intern? What did you do there? Assurant, Inc. I joined as the inaugural member of the Talent Development Pipeline working in the DevSecOps organization. There, I got to continue applying my classroom knowledge...
UPE Kickoff Spring 2020
With 2020 marking a new decade, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the largest tech organization at FIU, hosted its 2020 Spring Kickoff Meeting on January 10th. At the meeting, UPE introduced engaging and exciting opportunities aimed at boosting skills and careers in tech to...
SCIS Student, Carolina Uribe-Gosselin, highlighted in The Sunday Briefing.
Florida International University (FIU) President, Mark B. Rosenberg, in his weekly newsletter, The Sunday Briefing, highlighted the college achievements of the School of Computing and Information Sciences student Carolina Uribe-Gosselin. The newsletter began with...
Robotics Workshop for Teachers in South Florida
Dean, College of Engineering and Computing, John Volakis and Gregory Reis Professor, Dr. Giri Narasimhan and Instructor, Gregory Reis have run a professional development program for teachers in the K12 educational system in South Florida for over 3 years. The goal of...
SparkDev Fall 2019 Demo Day!
3 years ago I co-founded SparkDev, a development program focused on satisfying your hunger to learn more about topics like artificial intelligence, cyber security, virtual reality, website development and much more. Never would I have imagined that our signature...
SCIS Student Shanna Sit internship experience at JPMorgan Chase
Shanna is a current undergraduate student studying computer science and is also working toward obtaining a certificate in Japanese through FIU’s Asian Studies Program. This past summer, she accepted the opportunity to intern at JPMorgan Chase as part...
Recap: 2019 ACM Southeast USA Regional Programming Contest
On Saturday, November 9th, FIU was one of the four sites of the Southeast regional (SER) International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC). Twenty-one of the 122 teams that competed yesterday from across the southeast region (Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina,...