Roberto Barrera, born to engineer

Industrial engineering junior Roberto Barrera believes he was born tailored with an engineering mindset. At 10-years-old, his parents made him responsible for inventory of their food stand back home in Greensboro, FL. Before he started organizing it, setting up their stand took almost two hours. As a child, Barrera was able to help his parents by increasing their efficiency.

“I would always look for the better solution to things or how to innovate a system in my normal life,” Barrera remembers.

The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering pioneers for change through investments in success of diminished minorities

The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is highly focused on educating the faces of the future providing unwavering support, reliable resources and quality professors to students. One of the top HBCU’s in the country conjoins with a top research university, creating a uniquely multicultural and connected college. 

Students collaborate at University of Michigan to learn about personalized-manufacturing engineering research

Marquese Pollard and Arriana Nwodu, Florida A&M University graduate students at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering were the first two students from the college to be involved with a new emersion program funded by the National Science Foundation-Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (NSF-RISE). The two industrial engineers collaborated with students from the University of Michigan (UM) to gain hands on experience in manufacturing systems. 

Engineering professors win FSU GAP awards help faculty commercialize inventions

Three teams led by Florida State University faculty members--including two at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering--have received funding from the university to propel their pioneering research from the lab to the marketplace.

The researchers have been awarded a combined pot of $110,000 following their successful pitches at the university’s biannual GAP competition, an event organized by the Office of the Vice President for Research where faculty members present their ideas to a committee of businesspeople.

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering making strides

Story originally appeared in the FAMUan on 2/6/19

For the FSU-FAMU College of Engineering, research and multiculturalism are the most significant factors in the school’s rising national ranking.

According to Murray Gibson, dean of the shared college, they have increased their rankings by about 19 points in the last two years. He says it’s all due to their messaging and their research funding.