TWIE | This Week in Engineering |
August 22, 2022 | Issue 5 |
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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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University and College News |
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Welcome Newest Engineering Library Staff |
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Kassidy Hof-Mahoney is the Open Science Librarian and the liaison librarian for the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Biological Sciences department. She has a BS in Animal Biology from the University of South Florida and an MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a member of the American Library Association (ALA).
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David Maki is the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Library Supervisor and has been for the past year. He has worked at FSU since 2018 and has worked at both Dirac Science Library and Strozier Library. He has a BS in Exercises Physiology and Dietetics from FSU.
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The Engineering Library Circulation Desk hours are: Monday - Friday – 8am to 5pm | (850) 410-6328 | A225 & A248 |
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NOBCChE approaches its 50th anniversary and reflects on its origins
By Marsha-Ann Watson
In 1964, US president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. The law banned segregation in businesses and discriminatory practices in employment and educational institutions. For Black people in America, it was a sign of progress toward the equality they had long fought for. By the 1970s, however, many felt disillusioned by the slow pace of change. Facing continued discrimination by traditionally White institutions and societies, Black people responded in part by creating their own organizations. One of those societies was the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, more commonly known as NOBCChE (pronounced “no-buh-shay”).
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Improving Public Health Disease Surveillance and Response with Better Statistical Tools
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FAMU-FSU Engineering researchers have developed an advanced health surveillance tool to help improve response time to emerging pandemics, especially during natural disasters.
“One of the open research challenges in disease surveillance is how to make the detection algorithm sensitive, or adaptive, to the geographical size of potential outbreaks,” Rupert Giroux, a researcher on the team, said. “Having a detection algorithm that is sensitive to realistic outbreak scenarios gives health professionals an upper hand to be able to detect and locate outbreaks more quickly and devise effective disease containment measures.”
Giroux, a safety data coordinator for the Florida Department of Transportation who received his Ph.D. at the college, and Arda Vanli, an associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, have been able to do just that with a targeted modeling method that efficiently models and monitors integer-value time series data. This type of data is commonly used to track everything from road safety to public health.
The researchers created the innovative statistical modeling method to analyze large amounts of data in an adaptive and automated way. The method adapts to the size of a potential outbreak experienced in an area and requires less manual input than traditional methods. It allows public health authorities to more accurately and quickly determine where new geographically-concentrated cases might occur.
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Opportunities for Undergraduates |
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Fall 2022: Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization |
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Fall 2022: Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization |
The popular Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization course that was canceled in Spring 2022 is now back for Fall 2022. If you are interested in the course, please contact the instructor, Dr. Naser Tibi at nt22o@fsu.edu to request permission for registration. Please note that the course is offered through both FAMU and FSU, to both undergraduate and graduate students. You need to state clearly in your request which session you would like to enroll in:
Grad
FAMU graduate students: EIN 5445C, section 1
FSU graduate students: EIN 5445C, section 1
Undergrad
FAMU undergraduate students: EIN 150, section 1
FSU undergraduate students: EIN 4444, section 1
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Peer Mentoring Fall 2022 Events |
Interested in being a mentor? Come to the Master Mentoring workshop and learn how. Are you new to the College? Check out the M&M Speed Meetup where upper level engineering students are eager to share their engineering college experiences, plus a few tips & tricks.
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Master Mentoring | Tuesday, Aug. 30, 5:30-6:30pm
The mentoring workshop will be in room B221. Students interested in being a mentor will receive mentoring training and learn about their responsibilities as a mentor.
- Mentorship Speed Meeting | Thursday, Sept. 1, 6:00-7:00pm
"Speed-dating" setup for M&M pairing will be in room B221. Mentors will be seated at different tables around the room while mentees rotate to see who they connect with the most, like speed dating.
- Mentee Networking | Tuesday, Sept. 8, 6:30-7:30pm
A networking opportunity for mentees will be held in room B221. Mentees will learn about the mentoring program and get to know one another.
- M&M Social | Tuesday, Sept. 13, 6:30-7:30
The M&M Social will be in room B221 where paired mentors and mentees will formally meet and socialize with fellow engineering students participating in the program.
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SELB wants you! Accepting Applications now.
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The Student Engineering Leadership Board was created to assist the engineering student body as a whole, to be attentive to students' needs and be the advocated for students' issues. SELB members serve as liaison between students and the college's administration, faculty and staff.
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Events
August 2022
Fall Classes Begin, August 22
Welcome Back Students Week, Monday, August 22- Friday, 26 | FAMU-FSU Engineering
Donuts with De, Meet the Dean, Thursday, August 25, 3:30pm-4:30pm | FAMU-FSU Engineering
September 2022
Labor Day Holiday, September 5 | No classes, College closed
RSO Involvement Fair, September 8, 3:00pm - 6:00pm | Connector near COE Cafe
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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Hubble 3D
In May 2009, NASA astronauts embark on a mission to perform maintenance and repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope. As they go about their tasks, danger and beauty are never far away. The nature of space indicates that even the simplest routine can go fatally awry, while amazing photographs taken by the telescope celebrate the wonder of Earth’s celestial surroundings.
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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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