The U.S. Department of Transportation is advancing the FIU Bridge Engineering Program’s efforts to make the country’s aging bridges safer. FIU will receive $1.5 million per year, for five years, for its Accelerated Bridge Construction University Transportation Center...

For the first time last week, FIU in D.C. offered classes for engineering professionals and graduate students from around the country. “Design of Steel Bridges” – taught by Atorod Azizinamini, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – was the...

Last week, while FIU joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Innovation: An American Imperative (#InnovationImperative) initiative to encourage Congress to support more STEM research, the College of Engineering & Computing’s Atorod...

The Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC), a non-profit professional society concerned with the use of coatings to protect industrial steel structures, put on their annual showcase this past January 19th –...

The CEE Department is proud to announce and share the stories of its Fall 2015 Ph.D. graduates: Xiong Yang, Xin Jiao, Bahareh Inanloo, Khandker Saqib Ishtiaq, and Sahar Ghasemi.   Xiong Yang obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and decided to take...

He’s done it again! Just a short while after receiving the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) Transportation Research Board Fellowship, Mario Rojas has secured another fellowship – this time, the Chi Epsilon Graduate Fellowship. Chi...

Florida International University’s second annual National Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference took place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Miami this past December 7-8, 2015. Engineers, administrators and construction-company officials from 40 states...

Three CEE undergraduate students have been chosen to be a part of the newest 12-student cohort of FIU’s Department of Energy (DOE) Fellowship. The lucky inductees are: Christopher Strand, Alexis Smoot, and Sarah Bird. This amazing fellowship gives minority students...

BY GLENN GARVIN ggarvin@miamiherald.com It’s not exactly the way Miami conventions look in chamber of commerce sales brochure, but the 600 or so highway administrators and engineers seemed to be having a great time at Miami’s Hyatt Regency Monday, playing...

Ms. Lilian Marrero, our Adjunct Faculty Instructor for Water Resources Engineering is proud to announce two of her students as recipients of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Ford Motor Company Fund Scholarship. Tahimi Cabrera and Daniel...