The weekend of September 25-27th Upsilon Pi Epsilon virtually held ShellHacks via Hopin, Florida’s largest hackathon. ShellHacks was open to all students with the interest of coming to learn the latest technologies, build innovative projects, and showcase their...
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Robotics Academy gains national recognition for construction industry virtual and augmented reality training tools
FIU’s Robotics Academy has won a Dynamite Award in the “Incubator” category from the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council. Researchers from the College of Communication, Architecture, + The Arts (CARTA) and...
Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) Meeting/Social
In its fifth year, this NSF awarded, $5 million, five-year grant - Florida IT Pathways to Success project has provided 112 scholarships to our panthers as well as the development of a sense of community amongst our computer science, information technology, and...
UPE Kickoff Fall 2020
With the beginning of the final semester of 2020, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the largest technology organization within FIU, held its 2020 Fall Kickoff General Meeting virtually via Zoom on August 28th. The meeting was open to all students regardless of major or...
My virtual internship at Allstate as a software engineer
Name: Glenda Gonzalez Hometown: Miami, FL What is your major: Computer science Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned virtually at Allstate as a software engineer within their Allstate Dealer Services (ADS) department. How did you get your...
Virtual Office
The office staff will be online through Zoom Monday – Friday from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm URL: https://fiu.zoom.us/my/scisoffice Meeting ID: 3053482744 (same as the main office phone number) All our office numbers have been directed to our cellphones, and we are as...
Got my first job! Working at Microsoft as a program manager
Name: Carolina Uribe-Gosselin Hometown: Miami, FL Degree/major: Bachelor's in computer science and a minor in psychology Where are you working? Title? Microsoft, program manager How did you get your job? Through UPE’s ShellHacks, I met a Microsoft recruiter and...
Computing professor designs stream processing system for IoT applications
Recent National Science Foundation CAREER recipient is building a digital architecture to rapidly process data. Smart devices that communicate with other smart devices, known as Internet of Things (IoT) applications, have revolutionized the modern way of life. From...
FIU launches new bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity
Starting in the fall of 2020, FIU is offering a bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity that will prepare graduates for careers in a high-demand field. Geared to train students for jobs in areas such as data security, systems security management and network...
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Internship Experience
Name: Muhammad Haseeb Ph.D. student, SCIS, Parallel Computing & Data Science Research Group (SaeedLab) Hometown: Lahore, Pakistan During Summer 2020, I worked as an intern at the National Energy Research and Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) division of the...