To Mars and back again

Jelani James is a third-year mechanical engineering student from Chattanooga attending FAMU-FSU Engineering through Florida A&M University. He is most avid about building and designing. His vision statement involves using his creations to help others.

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering making strides

Story originally appeared in the FAMUan on 2/6/19

For the FSU-FAMU College of Engineering, research and multiculturalism are the most significant factors in the school’s rising national ranking.

According to Murray Gibson, dean of the shared college, they have increased their rankings by about 19 points in the last two years. He says it’s all due to their messaging and their research funding.

2019 Mechanical Engineering: Distinguished Alumni Award Lisa Wight

Lisa Wight is currently a Production Manager at Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida. Lisa is a proud alumna of Florida A&M University, graduating in 1997 from the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. Lisa started her professional career as a Mechanical Engineer at Allied Signal in Kansas City, MO. She left Honeywell to begin her career at Harris Corporation in 2007. In her years at Harris, she has served as Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineer, and as Production Manager.

Engineering Researcher receives prestigious Young Researchers Award for developing new method for accelerator quench-spot detection in superfluid helium

Earlier this month, the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) announced the winners of the IIR scientific awards. Shiran Bao, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the cryogenics lab at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, has been selected as the winner of the prestigious Peter Kapitza Award. The award will be conferred at the 25th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (ICR) in Montreal, Canada, in August 2019.

Mechanical engineering grad student paper published as Editor's Suggestion in prestigious journal

Scientific experiments at the micro-level may always be a practice fraught with ambiguity, a challenge that has never stopped the most tenacious minds. Take researchers Brian Mastracci, Ph.D. and professor Wei Guo of the Cryogenics Lab at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. The pair recently developed a scheme that clarifies the process by which a cooling element for large-scale equipment (such as superconducting magnets) operates under turbulence.