Mar 17, 2018 | News & Announcements
Media Contacts: Millie Acebal mroussea@fiu.edu Emily Castellanos (202) 789-7846 ecastellanos@asce.org RESTON, Va. – The National Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Wall of Wind (WOW) Experimental Facility (EF) located at Florida International...
Dec 14, 2017 | News & Announcements
An FIU professor has a plan to get rid of the blue tarps that inevitably appear on rooftops after a hurricane. Arindam Gan Chowdhury has patented a concrete roofing system that aims to replace the hundreds of individual shingles or barrel tiles, not to mention...
Oct 25, 2017 | News & Announcements
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao and U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart made a stop last week at the College of Engineering & Computing. During their visit, they toured FIU’s Accelerated Bridge Construction University Transportation Center (ABC-UTC) and...
Nov 16, 2015 | News & Announcements
The Wall of Wind (WOW), recently designated by NSF as one of the nation’s major “Experimental Facilities (EFs)” under the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Program, is allowing CEE students to acquire unique education in wind engineering. Dr....
