Alex Uribe Using a unique FIU Business-built blockchain, a multi-disciplinary team of FIU students captured first place in the Association for Information System’s national 2020 AIS Student Chapter Blockchain Challenge. The competition provided the first major...
Blog
Virtual reality project offers 21st-century skills to first-year experience students
FIU’s First-Year Experience course, designed to teach students life skills and prepare them for professional success, is providing learners with a new collaboration opportunity in virtual reality. COMMUNITY is a virtual reality-based experience...
Virtual Google Development Workshops with UPE
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, technologists around the world are scrambling to do their part in mitigating the pandemic. For many students, the transition to remote schooling resulted in a loss of on-campus learning resources, including in-person mentoring, workshops,...
Upsilon Pi Epsilon’s Valentines Gift to SCIS Students
Valentine’s Day, a day where people express their love to their dearest companions, has been, for the most part, unchanging where traditions are usually predicated on showing affection to others. But what about showing love and appreciation for programming, a valuable...
Facebook on Campus Recruiting Day
Just before spring break started, FIU SCIS students networked with one of the biggest companies in tech, Facebook. With the end of the recruiting season for summer internships around the corner, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Advance collaborated with the Facebook...
FIU SCIS Lab Gets Their Paper Accepted at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2020
Congratulations to Florida International University SCIS Ph.D. students-Qi Li and Yuzhou Feng, and #FIUSCIS undergraduate research student-Yuyang Leng, members of FIU SCIS CPS Lab led by Profesor Dong Chen for recently made their SolarFinder paper accepted at ACM/IEEE...
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...










