TWIE | This Week in Engineering |
September 12, 2022 | Issue 5 |
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STEM Resume Cafe, Tuesday, September 13 - Get Ready! |
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Welcome to The Breakroom which is available from 9:00 am-5:00 pm on normal business days. Reserve a 50-minute slot using this link:
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Plan to Attend our Biggest Networking Event!
Celebrate our 40th Anniversary with our returning alumni and their families, fellow engineering students, faculty and staff. Save the date and plan to attend the fourth annual Green & Gold Tailgate here at the college.
Friday, September 23
New facilities tours, alumni, faculty and student events during the day + Green & Gold Tailgate party in the early evening. Bring your family!
Saturday, September 24
Home games for both FAMU and FSU football:
FAMU vs Alabama A&M
FSU vs Boston College
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Interested in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work at Engineering?
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Everyone in our FAMU-FSU Engineering community is invited to join our diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the college. This past year, our Let’s Start Here (LSH) Leadership Committee began this work in earnest for our faculty, students and staff. We are currently accepting volunteer interest in serving on the newly-formed Engineering DEI Advisory Council, which will pick up where the LSH committee left off.
In addition to the DEI Advisory Council, there are myriad other ways to get involved in creating a college culture that is more inclusive, offers equal opportunities for all and celebrates the diversity on our campus. There’s something for anyone who is interested in this important work. Please take a moment to complete this form if you are interested in joining us.
Thank you!
Tisha Keller, M.A.
Marketing + Communications Director
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Opportunities for Undergraduates |
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NIA/NASA Competitions: 2023 |
We need you, from NASA internships to hefty development stipends, universities and their students have plenty to gain from NASA competition participation - and the Notice of Intent (NOI) deadlines are approaching swiftly for the 2023 competitions.
Don't delay - submit an NOI today!
Teams who submit an NOI by the deadline will be invited to participate in interactive Q&A Sessions with competition judges next month.
Keep reading to determine which competition is best for you.
The National Institute of Aerospace proudly manages four competitions on behalf of NASA, each with a completely unique focus:
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FAMU: $15k coding competition for Florida A&M students |
Florida A&M students are invited to compete virtually at our first ever HBCU Terminal event in October. Terminal is a games-based AI challenge, where players code strategies to automate gameplay. After hosting dozens of Terminal events for 5,000+ students at top universities such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, and Caltech, we are partnering with Citadel to host an exclusive event for HBCU students across the country!
All participating students will compete for USD$15,000 in cash prizes and exclusive recruiting opportunities with Citadel. You can check out this clip of Terminal if you’d like to learn more about our events.
This is a great opportunity for students to exhibit their coding skills in a competitive, team-based setting. All Florida A&M students are welcome to register.
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College of Engineering Student Presenting at the 2022 President's Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence
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The Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement (CRE) is excited to share that students within the College of Engineering (listed below) will be presenting their research at the 2022 President's Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence. The President’s Showcase returns to an in-person event this year and will be held on Thursday, September 22 from 5:30-8:30pm. The President’s Showcase is a culminating presentation experience of the work our IDEA Grant winners and Tech Fellows completed over Summer 2022. We would appreciate you sharing this news with your department's community, whether through social media or email newsletter, so that they may learn about the hard work of these students and attend the Showcase. I’ve also attached individual social media posts of each student to this email. Please also include the below information regarding the Portal, Program, and Registration link via Eventbrite. We are using the hashtags #FSUIDEAGrants and #PrezShowcase2022 in our social media engagement.
Below you will find information about each student and their project in your department. You can access presenter information via the President’s Showcase Program. More information about the event can be found on the CRE website. Please also register to attend the Showcase via Eventbrite here.
Here are the students organized by Department:
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
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Ashley David (ad19e@fsu.edu), Major: Biomedical Engineering, Faculty Member: Dr. Daniel Hallinan, Project Title: “Analyzing the Soret Coefficient Using Time Resolved FTIR-ATR”
Please email Dave Montez (dmontez@fsu.edu) if you have any questions about the IDEA Grants program or the President's Showcase.
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STEM Career and Internship Fair, Tuesday, September 20 |
Engineering classes are suspended on September 20 and all engineering students are expected to attend the STEM Career Fair at the E-School campus from 9 am - 3 pm.
Meet employers, network and find summer internships, jobs and career pathway information. There’s something for every engineering student, freshman through senior.
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FDOT Intern Position Available |
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Do you like talking to people?
Do you want to know how roads are built?
Are you interested in knowing more about the products used in constructing roads and bridges? Would you like to know more about Federal, State, and Local government policy and how it impacts Construction and Traffic Operations?
The Product Evaluation Section of FDOT’s Program Management Office is looking for an intern.
Position 55990805
Open to students in Business, Construction, Engineering, Government, Computer Programming and Policy Planning. Preference will be given to students available to commit to more than one consecutive semester. Junior and above level. Hours are flexible but up to 20 hours/week would be preferred.
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2023 Winter Mini-Semester: An extraordinary experience at a National Laboratory |
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Program Date: January 9 – January 13, 2023
Application Deadline: October 23, 2022
Application Link:
Subject: 2023 Winter Mini-Semester
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Office of Educational Programs (OEP), seeks applicants for the Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) Mini-Semester Program. Selected students are invited to participate in a five-day in person program developed to introduce participants to BNL’s science and engineering.
Candidates will select from one of the following tracks: Track 1 will focus on life sciences, and Track 2 will be Engineering/technical. You may select the track you wish to participate in during your application. Once accepted into a track you will not be able to switch tracks. Please visit
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University and College News |
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Combining Imaging Techniques to Monitor Stem Cell Therapies |
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Samuel Grant, professor and postdoctoral fellow director in chemical and biomedical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, works with graduate student Dayna Richter on a 900-megahertz magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. (Mark Wallheiser/FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) |
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When patients are treated for strokes and other neurological disorders, understanding what is happening inside the nervous system is a crucial part of treatment. Doctors rely on imaging tools such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to peer inside the body and see if interventions are helping.
A Florida State University research team has found that a combination of two MRI techniques can provide early answers on the effectiveness of stem cell therapies for treating strokes, which could help physicians quickly know if a treatment is working or if they should change their strategy. Their work was published in the journal Translational Stroke Research.
“With strokes, the sooner that you can salvage tissue that might be at risk, because it’s been starved from oxygen and glucose, the sooner you can avoid some of that inflammatory response and help the tissue recover,” said Sam Grant, a professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and faculty researcher at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
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HPMI Seminar: J.M. Gibson "Characterizing order in amorphous materials with fluctuation |
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Friday, September 16 at 11:00am
Material Research Building, HPMI Seminar
Characterizing order in amorphous materials with fluctuation electron microscopy
Most of what we know about the structure of amorphous materials is limited to the pair correlation (or radial distribution) function. The existence of ordering on a medium length scale (~10 bond lengths) is poorly understood, yet likely of major importance to properties of amorphous materials. Direct imaging of atomic structure in amorphous materials is possible but very challenging, and it is difficult to examine a statistically significant number of atoms by direct imaging. Instead, the technique of fluctuation electron microscopy offers a powerful complementary solution, which also promises application to radiation sensitive materials.
Dr. Gibson will review the method, which relies on statistical analysis of coherent nanobeam electron diffraction patterns (4DSTEM), and demonstrate its sensitivity to higher order atomic correlations and medium range order. In his work he has primarily studied the structure of amorphous Si, but he will also discuss the work of some other groups on other materials, and some recent preliminary work on carbon.
Finally, he will discuss developments in the fluctuation microscopy technique and the potential for broader application to amorphous and disordered materials.
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Events
September 2022
M&M Social, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 6:30-7:30 | The peer mentoring M&M Social will be in room B221.
I-AM-EMPOWEREd MSIPP Annual Review Meeting, September 13, 9:00am - 5:00pm | MRB Bldg. Contact: Kacy Lowe klowe@eng.famu.fsu.edu
ASTERIX Semi-Annual Meeting, September 14, 9:00am - 5:00pm | FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. On 9/15 and 9/16, the event will be held at FAMU.
STEM Resume Cafe, Wednesday, September 14, 9:00am-1:00pm | FAMU-FSU Engineering
STEM Career & Internship Fair, Tuesday, September 20, 9:00am-3:00pm | FAMU-FSU Engineering | Classes are suspended for the event.
Green & Gold Tailgate, Friday, September 23, 2;00-7:00pm | FAMU-FSU Engineering
FSU Family Weekend, Sept. 23-25
FSU Homecoming, Sept. 30
October 2022
FAMU Family Weekend, Oct. 1-3
FAMU Homecoming, October 29
November 2022
Veteran's Day Holiday, November 11 | No classes. College closed.
Thanksgiving Holiday, November 23-25 | No classes. College closed.
December 2022
Last Day of Classes, December 2
Final Exam Week, December 5-9
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FAMU Official University Academic Calendar
https://www.famu.edu/academics/registrars-office/academic-calendars.php
FSU Academic Calendar:
https://registrar.fsu.edu/registration_guide/fall/academic_calendar/
FAMU-FSU Engineering Academic Calendar & Deadlines: https://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/students/academic-deadlines
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Challenger Learning Center Info |
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Into America's Wild - 9/16
Into America’s Wild is a non-stop ride via kayak, bike, train, hot air balloon, zipline, and more into some of the most beautiful but little-known landscapes of North America. Setting out on this journey are three trailblazers—Native American astronaut John Herrington, Alaskan bush pilot and youth advocate Ariel Tweto, and record-breaking long-distance hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis—who share a passion for connecting people to experiences in the wild. As they wind their way through the scenic byways, ancient homelands, secret gems, and hidden trails of America, viewers will discover the special human connection we all share with the natural world.
Tickets to Into America's Wild are $6.00 for children, $7.00 for students and seniors, and $8.00 for adults. The 40-minute film will remain in the Challenger Learning Center documentary library, available for group bookings and field trips.
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Top Gun: Maverick is BACK!
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
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