TWIE | This Week in Engineering |
November 28, 2022 | Issue 5 |
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Take A Paws and More Stress Busters |
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Check out the other de-stressing activities available this day:
- PUPPIES!
- Rock Painting
- Arts & Crafts
- Yard Games/ Outdoor Activities
- Classmate Bonding
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University and College News |
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Welcome to The Breakroom, B226-H, 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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It's Course Evaluation time! |
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You should have received an invitation to complete an evaluation for each engineering course that you are enrolled in. Forms were made available starting Friday, November 18, and they end December 2. Below is some information about the forms and process.
Where are they? Online! FAMU students will receive an invitation via email, and FSU students will receive it via Canvas. The evaluation forms for engineering courses are the same for all students regardless of university affiliation.
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Note: At the college, we use a common form, administered through FSU’s evaluation platform, for all our courses. FSU performs the statistical analyses for us. Using a common form gives even more anonymity for students’ sake, makes evaluations consistent for faculty evaluation purposes, and avoids burdening students with having to complete two separate forms.
How? You’ll be asked to rate different aspects of the course. Those ratings are statistically analyzed and are returned to the instructor and administrators, including the department chair and college deans. However, your responses to the free-response questions at the end are viewable only by the instructor being evaluated, and by no one else. The more specific your comments, the more helpful they are to the instructor. Your responses are anonymous.
Why? Your feedback is key to making sure we’re doing the best job we can as engineering faculty.
Thank you for your honest and fair feedback!
Your deans and chairs take evaluation results very seriously, and they expect instructors and faculty to do the same. If you want to express your thoughts – good or bad – to others who should know, please consider talking directly with your department chair or me. Our doors are open, and we want to hear your feedback.
As the semester comes to a close, take it one thing at a time. Plan your time including periods of rest, keep focused, and finish strong!
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It's Course Evaluation time! |
Dear FAMU-FSU Engineering students,
You should have received an invitation to complete an evaluation for each engineering course that you are enrolled in. Forms were made available starting Friday, November 18, and they end December 2. Below is some information about the forms and process.
Where are they? Online! FAMU students will receive an invitation via email, and FSU students will receive it via Canvas. The evaluation forms for engineering courses are the same for all students regardless of university affiliation.
Note: At the college, we use a common form, administered through FSU’s evaluation platform, for all our courses. FSU performs the statistical analyses for us. Using a common form gives even more anonymity for students’ sake, makes evaluations consistent for faculty evaluation purposes, and avoids burdening students with having to complete two separate forms.
How? You’ll be asked to rate different aspects of the course. Those ratings are statistically analyzed and are returned to the instructor and administrators, including the department chair and college deans. However, your responses to the free-response questions at the end are viewable only by the instructor being evaluated, and by no one else. The more specific your comments, the more helpful they are to the instructor. Your responses are anonymous.
Why? Your feedback is key to making sure we’re doing the best job we can as engineering faculty.
Thank you for your honest and fair feedback!
Your deans and chairs take evaluation results very seriously, and they expect instructors and faculty to do the same. If you want to express your thoughts – good or bad – to others who should know, please consider talking directly with your department chair or me. Our doors are open, and we want to hear your feedback.
As the semester comes to a close, take it one thing at a time. Plan your time including periods of rest, keep focused, and finish strong!
Best,
Michelle Rambo-Roddenberry, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
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Using New Inferential Models to Increase Traffic Safety in Urban Areas |
Annual traffic fatalities reached 1.35 million in 2016 worldwide, and more than half of these are in crashes involving vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and bicyclists. Most studies related to traffic fatalities use geographic information models and tools to assess events. However, researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering say these models don’t give the complete picture.
Eren Ozguven, an associate professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center (RIDER), is working on a new study to discover what is happening in areas where crashes are more prevalent. Onur Alisan, a postdoctoral researcher at the college and center, is working with Ozguven on the study.
“It is essential for transportation agencies to make decisions related to traffic safety by looking at the variables represented by the environment,” Ozguven said. “The density of population in an area, the number of bus stops, and traffic volume are consistent with more crashes so we want to find ways to make these areas safer.”
The researchers are developing inferential models to explain how socio-demographic qualities affect an area. They use data to evaluate land use and a network of characteristics that affect traffic safety positively or negatively in a particular region in a systematic way.
Alisan and Ozguven published their research last July in SAGE journals.
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$1.5M to Expand Hypersonic Research Capability and Train Future Aerospace Engineers Secured via FAMU |
Florida A&M University (FAMU) and the Florida Center of Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP) have been awarded $1,200,000 by the Army Research Office (ARO). The award will expand the high-speed research capability at the facility and recruit more African American students to pursue careers in aerospace engineering.
“We want to train the next generation of engineers and scientists and expand research opportunities for under-represented minority students,” Rajan Kumar, a professor in mechanical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, said. “The U.S. Army has been very supportive of our mission as well as our many partner institutions.”
Kumar is the Director of the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP) and is working on research that will help the U.S. Army advance its design tools for high-speed research and next-generation hypersonic platforms. He is researching smart projectile performance and maneuvers at high angles, at a range of speeds, including subsonic, transonic, and supersonic Mach numbers.
Funding is distributed into two grants, one for basic research and the other to expand the capability of the polysonic wind tunnel (PSWT). Upgrades for the PSWT will allow the researchers to conduct research at realistic flight conditions. FAMU is adding $300,000 in matching funds to complement the planned upgrades and help train more minority students in aerospace engineering.
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New grant: Northrup Grumman Foundation Awards $1.5M Grant to Establish New STEM Research and Education |
Electrical engineering encompasses several critical skills areas of national need, as identified by the U.S. government. With a new $1.5 million grant from the Northrup Grumman Foundation, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering will ramp up its research activity in these areas. The funds will also support graduate and undergraduate students at the college in these areas.
“The Northrop Grumman Research and Education Program is an exceptional opportunity for us to expand and enhance our current successful research programs in STEM through the recruitment of underrepresented minority undergraduate and graduate scholars,” said Suvranu De, dean of the college.
Over the next three years, the funds will establish the Northrup Grumman Research and Education Program (REP) at the joint college via the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Foundation. The new REP will use $500,000 per year to support faculty-led research projects in each of these areas of need: artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, RF/antenna, electrochemical energy storage devices, advanced manufacturing, data science, and cybersecurity.
Annually, the grant will support 11 graduate scholars and 27 undergraduate scholars in STEM at FAMU. Seven of the graduate scholar researchers will be enrolled in Ph.D. programs and four will be enrolled in M.S. degree programs.
Mark H. Weatherspoon, professor of electrical and computer engineering and the associate dean for faculty affairs and academic innovation at the college, championed the proposal and will serve as the REP Director.
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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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Events
November 2022
Take-A-Paws Stress Busters Activities, November 30 | B Connector, Main entrance, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
December 2022
Last Day of Classes, December 2
Final Exam Week, December 5-9
Holiday Break, December 23-January 1 | College Closed
January 2023
College Opens Spring Semester, Tuesday, January 3
First Day of Classes, Monday, January 9
MLK Jr. Holiday, Monday January 16 | College closed
February 2023
Engineers Week, February 19- 25
March 2023
Spring Break, March 13-17
April 2023
Senior Design, April 6
COE Awards Night, Friday, April 7 | 6PM - 8PM
Focus on Gulf Scholars Program, Thursday, April 13 | 9 AM - 7 PM
May 2023
Final Exam Week, December 5-9
Memorial Day Holiday, Monday, May 29
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FAMU Official University Academic Calendar
FSU 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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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever |
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